- A legal requirement to cut CO2 emissions
- A ban on building new nuclear plants as well as a commitment to close the remaining one
- A moratorium on building windmills because they scare birds and pollute the horizon
- The largest supply of natural gas in Western Europe, but an increasing limit on exploiting this because shifts in ground level are causing cracks in people's walls.
- A ban on fracking
- There so notoriously little sunshine that people refuse to take solar power seriously, even though it seems to be working just fine in Germany.
Different groups want opposing things. The energy situation would be fine if environmentalists would allow the construction of more windmills and nuclear plants, or if the CO2 reduction target was dropped. You can't have it both ways.
The people in Groningen would probably be fine with continued exploitation of the gas wells if the profits were spent there, but the money is needed by the national government to meet the EU's budget deficit requirements. Now much of it will remain in the ground while we buy Russian gas.
In my opinion the very concept that a horizon is something that can be polluted is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I think the Dutch landscape is featureless and boring, and windmills are a vast improvement. They look modern, industrious, cheerful.