Tag: PROVINCIAL STATE ELECTIONS 2023
Windmill protest at A28: ‘Wind turbines make people sick with their noise’
“This is a first action to draw attention to the provincial elections,” says Stormbroek. “We also want to help people to submit a so-called opinion. And if, so to speak,…
Water quality still far from being in order, fine looming: ‘We really have to get to work’
“PFAS, metals, nitrogen, phosphorus, but also medicine residues and microplastics.” Sandra van de Reepe, who works as a program manager at Hoogheemraadschap de Stichtse Rijnlanden (HDSR), sums up what is…
A look behind the scenes at the water board: ‘What we do here matters’
We can vote twice on March 15, once for the province and once for the water board. For the latter administrative body, it is by no means always clear to…
Resistance to the wolf grows with age and what is even more striking about the results from the Kieskompas
Biologist Ad van Gestel told RTV Utrecht last year that various factors are important in how much people like to see the wolf come to the province. “The most important…
Why nature in Utrecht must be expanded (and that is insufficiently successful)
A forest has been planted bit by bit on the Langbroekerwetering near Wijk bij Duurstede since last January. It concerns a new piece of nature that will be added to…
Female Utrecht residents in particular are not thrilled about widening the A27 and other results from the KiesKompas
At the beginning of February, the province and municipality came up with an alternative proposal to adjust the road without widening it. More lanes, better use of the surrounding roads…
RTV Utrecht devoted 1.5 weeks to the Water Board and Provincial Council elections
Monday March 6: today we are discussing the theme Living and the Stembus is located in the old village in Vleuten. Tuesday March 7: on this day the theme Energy…
Oops: D66 forgets the municipality of Vijfheerenlanden
Vijfheerenlanden – Guess what’s wrong with this map? It is the province of Utrecht before the municipality of Vijfheerenlanden was added in 2019. It is also the map that the…
In Houten, visitors learn about the importance of water boards: ‘It is so self-evident, we do our job too well’
Houten – “We do what we say, but we forget to say what we do,” says Cis Apeldoorn with a sigh. A sigh, because she thinks the Netherlands should be…
In Utrecht every free square meter is fought over
The municipality of Woerden, together with the province of Utrecht, is now investigating the options through an exploratory study. The province thinks along because supra-local interests play a role; Woerden…