Climate groups see potential to work with BBB; Farmers want flags right side up again

Several nature preservation groups and environmental activists said they are optimistic they can find a way to work with BoerBurgerBeweging after the party’s apparent big election win on Wednesday. The nature conservation foundation was commenting on the big election win by new right-wing farming and agriculture political party BoerBurgerBeweging “It is very important to involve everyone in finding a solution,” Natuurmonumenten said. “The nitrogen crisis should not so much rest on the farmers’ plate, but rather on that of the large polluting agribusinesses such as Rabobank, Ahold Delhaize and FrieslandCampina,” said Bram van Liere from Milieudefensie. “Because only if they participate can we achieve the goals for climate, nitrogen and nature.” However, the Netherlands will get bogged down in the nitrogen crisis if the BBB’s election victory leads to the cancellation or softening of the Cabinet’s nitrogen policy, said Johan Vollenbroek, the chair of Mobilization for the Environment. Agractie: The Netherlands moving towards reasonableness after ‘disastrous plans’ Another farmers’ protest group, Agractie, said the Netherlands “has made a reasonable move,” and metaphorically stated that two of the four chair legs supporting the Cabinet have been knocked out from under them.