A gas extraction company and the Dutch government catch sight of the UN human rights commission. It demands measures from the Dutch state to protect the inhabitants of the Northern province Groningen from increasingly frequent earthquakes caused by the intensive extraction of gas.
The Dutch government has already partly given in to the pressure of the local residents. In recent years, the volume of gas extraction has been halved. According to the national gas extraction company this is not the right approach. They lodged an appeal with the Dutch Council of State to fight the new measure. The Council of State will decide in the upcoming weeks.
ARTE reporter Antoine Mouteau comes to the Netherlands to interview Groningen inhabitants that are affected by the earth quakes, a spokesperson of a earth quake damages activist group and a representative of the gas extraction company.
For this reportage production Featurez booked a rental car, did the driving, the filming and the sound.