"Liquefied natural gas will have to play a larger role in the future": Six Questions to Franziska Holz

Interview of November 25, 2015

Dr. Holz, what’s the link between the earthquakes that have occurred in the Netherlands and natural gas production?

In the past two or three years, the Netherlands has experienced a very high number of increasingly powerful earthquakes which have also had an impact on property. People are concerned that these earthquakes are triggered by Dutch natural gas extraction destabilizing geological structures. […]

The full interview with Franziska Holz is published in DIW Economic Bulletin 48/2015. It is available for download as pdf document (PDF, 101.46 KB).

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