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Apr 25, 2026 17:36
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Speaker 1 (Dutch)
You're listening to Business Daily on the BBC World Service. I'm Anna Holligan. Today, what happens when the global race for clean energy collides with the fate of a single village? It's not human. It's absolutely not human. You have to tell 1100 people to go. In the south of the Netherlands, the government is considering wiping a whole community off the map to make space for power lines, pylons and new industry.
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Speaker 3 (Dutch)
I'm scared I lose my house. My husband built our house with his own two hands.
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Speaker 1 (Dutch)
What happens here could shape how countries everywhere balance clean energy, security of supply and the people who live beneath the pylons. This one village has become a test case. How does it feel for you as mayor when you have to look those people, those villagers in the eye and say, do you know what, I'm sorry, but all of this has to go. That's all coming up on Business Daily from the BBC.
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Jacko Koeman takes me into a room with a view. We can sit there if you want. We can sit upstairs. Then you have a nice view on our river. Jacko's fish business overlooks the Holland's Deep Estuary, where South Holland meets North Brabant. He's clearly proud of his port side office.
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From right up here, you can see why this place matters to planners. Deep water, road and rail links, existing industry, and open land. So much open land. For Jaco, though, it's simply home. You know, you're listening, and I think, are they really saying that, that you have to go with your village? He remembers the moment residents heard their village could eventually disappear to make way for expansion linked to the Powerport Regio Mordai plan.
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Everybody was shocked. Really, really terrible. His family's been living off the water here since 1918. And now it looks like they are bringing us to the slaughter bank. You go to bed with it and you wake up with it. The feeling, as soon as you wake up, what's going to happen? And it's a family business? It's family business, correct. We are here, I'm the third generation, and my son is also involved in the company, so it's the fourth generation.
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What will this mean to you then? Then it means that our company has to go. I live on the other side of the dike in the village. So I have to go as well, personally. And well, in the meantime, you also have to do your business. You have your family at home. And I'm not the only one. Not nice. Moordyke started out as a fishing village. Fishing was the first industry here. A long time ago, yeah, on the smelt. The cumcumber fish. It was one of the biggest, the biggest thing. I like fish.
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So I can show you. We've moved through to a storage space full of tanks. So what do you have in here? Eels, live eels. The eels are black and squirming. I wasn't expecting live eel. Yeah, they are used in Holland by smokeries. We smoke them ourselves as well. It's a very popular dish.
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But this industry, your fishing industry is thriving right now. So far, yes. We cannot complain, luckily. These are smoked fields. The big ones, the small ones. It's kind of ironic that the thing that has been such a draw and such a positive and the lifeblood of this village is ultimately the thing that... Is going to kill us.
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The state and grid operators see something very different when they look at the same stretch of water and land. Around Moordyke, they're looking for hundreds of hectares to land power from new North Sea wind farms, build high voltage stations and lay cables and create space for hydrogen ready industry.
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Speaker 2 (Dutch)
It's a very strategically valuable location. It is. It is. I think you have seen our situation a little bit. We have a motorway over there, a motorway over there, and water over there. And they only look at big money. I understand that. But don't do it here. Do it 20, 30 kilometers away in the North Sea. Plenty of space there. Plenty of windmills.
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I know that there are other possibilities. They don't really have to put the whole plant in this area. They can build it at sea, where the power is coming from. Put there a converter station. Officials say Moordyke makes sense because it already sits at the crossroads of ports, pipelines, motorways and the national grid, plugged into everything. It's a really densely populated country and very small.
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And that's one of the key tensions here. 1,100 people live in this village. The Netherlands wants more clean power, more energy, security and more space for industry. But there is almost nowhere left to put it.
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