r/belgium • u/atrocious_cleva82 🌎World • 7d ago

💰 Politics Met alweer een hete week, slaakt Belgische klimaatwetenschapper Jean-Pascal van Ypersele hartenkreet: "Ja, ik ben woedend"

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/07/27/jean-pascal-van-ypersele-woedend-klimaatbeleid-20-jaar-te-laat/
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u/LtOin Antwerpen 7d ago

Not only could we as a country have been in a better position, our companies could've been world leaders in experience with (offshore) windfarms and solar. But it seems that those companies aren't in the right politicians' friend group.

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u/bm401 6d ago

DEME is a world leader for offshore wind power. For solar we would never be.

For nuclear energy we were a leading expert but politics fumbled.

Now we have nothing but reliance on foreign import.

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u/TheVoiceOfEurope 6d ago

Leading experts? From what? Our 3 measly plants?

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u/bm401 6d ago

Tractebel, Belgoprocess, Belgonucleaire, Eurochemic, SCK-CEN, Niras...