Radio Mundo Real

What happens when a town strikes gas? 30 years after Shell and ExxonMobil opened up Europe’s biggest gas field for drilling, the residents of Groningen are finding out – near-constant earthquakes are destroying people’s homes, leaving them too dangerous to live in and too expensive to fix. Meanwhile, while north-west Europe continues to burn fossil gas, the low-lying region sits perilously close to the sea level.

In this episode, we speak to Peter Kodde, a longtime organiser, activist, and self-professed "oil and gas nerd" who’s been working with the local community in Groningen to help organise the resistance to the drilling.