Dutch parliamentary inquiry releases damning report into government's handling of natural gas extraction
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A report into the Dutch government's handling of natural gas extraction that caused multiple earthquakes was released by the country's parliamentary inquiry.
The conclusions in the nearly 2,000-page report are the latest damaging blow to the credibility of Dutch governments that have been led for more than a decade by Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
He declined Friday to react to the report's findings, but acknowledged that the conclusions were "hard and painful" and underscore why people in Groningen "are angry and sad and that people feel unsafe and abandoned."
Two years ago, Rutte's last ruling coalition resigned over a parliamentary inquiry's report into a scandal over efforts to stamp out child welfare payment fraud that wrongly labeled thousands of parents as fraudsters.