Earlier this fall John Ruyven appealed to the greenhouse horticulture to make its voice heard. “Why is no person doing something?” the Dutch technician requested himself, working in, amongst others, the water remedy together with his firm JVR Tecmar. His enchantment bought him some important reactions, however since then nothing actually modified, he claims. “I bought to listen to nice tales, however that wasn’t my objective. What issues is that one thing adjustments.”
Not too long ago a grower from Canada pointed John to the event within the Center East. There they pump (sea) water into empty gasoline and oil fields. After John noticed the pictures, this raised the query of whether or not this may additionally be an choice to extract gasoline within the Dutch province Groningen with out risking earthquakes. He proposed this concept at a contact second at a commerce group and in addition shared posts about it on his private LinkedIn.
Within the meantime, everybody ‘should’ do away with gasoline and Russian gasoline is banned. Such developments hit greenhouse horticulture exhausting. “It is unhappy to see entrepreneurs who watch their life’s work shatter.” It is painful for the technician that additionally many in his trade resign. Since January there hasn’t actually been any protest from the trade, in line with John. “Whereas whoever remains to be on the best facet of this line can even get their flip ultimately, if the coverage continues like this.”
John at GreenTech Amsterdam 2022
If it is as much as John, there’ll at the very least be extra readability from the Dutch authorities. “With out readability across the insurance policies, entrepreneurs do not know the place they stand.” If ‘we’ nonetheless need to do away with gasoline and decrease emissions, then geothermal warmth may be an possibility. The technician is stunned at the truth that the federal government hyperlinks the worth of geothermal warmth to the excessive gasoline costs. “Be sure that presently that geothermal warmth turns into cheaper if gasoline is now not allowed, however that additionally is not occurring.”
The technician hopes that greenhouse horticulture nonetheless takes motion, ideally along with different badly affected industries, similar to bakeries. “At present, I am lacking solidarity, whereas very unusual issues happen out there.” By making his place recognized as soon as once more and exhibiting his viewpoint, John hopes to seek out like-minded individuals. “Along with individuals which might be on the identical wavelength we should always be capable of result in adjustments.”
Would you want to reply? Mail John at: john@jvrtecmar.nl
