Dozens of activist farmers have gathered at Schiphol to offer the airport management a ‘purchase contract’ as a playful promotion. They are not allowed to drive their tractors to the head office of the airport and have therefore gathered in Rozenburg, near the Kaagbaan. A Schiphol board member will receive the ‘contract’ there.
Last week it was announced that major concerns about the future of Schiphol. Far-reaching measures are required because the airport does not comply with nitrogen regulations, noise and nuisance regulations and does not have a nature permit. According to legal advisers, the number of flight movements should not be reduced by, among other things, buying up farms around Schiphol.
The farmers seize this opportunity to “turn the tables” and now say they want to buy Schiphol. The closure of the airport will immediately solve the nitrogen problem in the Netherlands and all the land can then be used as a farmyard, says dairy farmer René Staal in a statement. Facebookvideo: “Those runways will become a beautiful plot path. There is a lot of polluted land, which yields little. The cows can stand in the hangars, the fuel storage is to store manure.”
The airport management has not yet responded.
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