The Dutch village at risk of being demolished

In the south of the Netherlands, beside a wide estuary, a village of around 1,100 people is likely to disappear from the map. Moerdijk, a small fishing community 34km (21 miles) south of Rotterdam, is on the fault line of the nation's green energy transition. The Dutch government says the country needs vast new sites to build high-voltage substatio...

In the south of the Netherlands, beside a wide estuary, a village of around 1,100 people is likely to disappear from the map.

Moerdijk, a small fishing community 34km (21 miles) south of Rotterdam, is on the fault line of the nation's green energy transition.

The Dutch government says the country needs vast new sites to build high-voltage substations where cables carrying electricity from growing offshore wind farms can be connected to the national grid.

Yet the Netherlands is short of land. Officials argue that Moerdijk, which is on the southern shore of the Hollands Diep estuary, and well located next to ports, motorways, and existing overhead power lines, is a prime location for such a facility.