Barendrecht town council is to lobby MPs to win support for legal action against plans to experiment with the storage of surplus carbondioxide under a housing estate of 7,600 homes.

The storage plan falls under fast-track planning laws passed by the senate on Tuesday night. This means the town council no longer has the right to go to court about the proposal.
But both MPs and ministers said in the past they supported Barendrecht’s right to fight the plans in court, news agency ANP reports.
Economic affairs minister Maria van der Hoeven is expected to give parliament more details about the planned experiment at the end of the month.