Moerdijk has been earmarked for removal, to make way for a vast electricity substation.
The arguments playing out in Moerdijk echo wider dilemmas across the Netherlands. The country is densely populated, and has long struggled to balance competing demands on a finite area of land - housing, farming, nature, transport, industry, and now the infrastructure needed to support large-scale renewable energy projects.
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