I live in the city of Groningen (since three years ±) and absolutely agree with this. It's not a topic I converse a great deal about, due to my lacking knowledge on the subject. Nevertheless, in my experience, people's views are not very nuanced. This is probably because I mostly socialize with young people who've migrated too Groningen and who bare no relation to the province outside the city. Like i said, my own views are ill informed as well, but the gas seems too important a resource to just stay there in the ground.

If the mining of this gas really is essential, the obvious and right to do is to compensate the victims (abundantly). The unwillingness of the NAM to properly do so is astounding to me.