The Dutch government has announced plans to build three more windfarms off the Noord-Holland coast and north of the Wadden Islands, in addition to five new windfarms already agreed upon. A Dutch energy network also has plans for an island of wind turbines on the Dogger bank.

Local fishermen claim that 25% of Dutch fishing waters will be covered with turbines by 2025 and made out of bounds for larger fishing vessels. They do not agree with research on the longer-term benefits to marine wildlife of excluding fishing, and report that “the ramming of seabed kills everything within 6km The porpoises are deafened and once they lose their hearing, they die. There has not been enough research, but we see what is happening every day.” Click here to read more