Jan Bergstra is contributing texts in science journalism style on the so-called “stikstofcrisis” in The Netherlands.

This crisis has many aspects ranging from chemistry and law to agriculture and civil engineering.

The terminology of accusation theory is used to pinpoint (alleged) logical difficulties in various arguments that are used by key players in the development of this crisis.

The following documents are now available on the website of Agrifacts.

1) In

https://stichtingagrifacts.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Stikstoflogica1.pdf 

I deal with “the accusation” that “habitattype” is used in an ambiguous manner and the use of the term “habitatklasse” is suggested instead.

2) In

https://stichtingagrifacts.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Stikstoflogica2.pdf 

I provide a criticism of the 2019 ruling of the “Raad van State” which started the ‘stikstofcrisis’ as a beaurocratic crisis in The Netherlands. At the core of this work are “accusations” about the biased use of scientific inputs as compared with non-scientific input as put forward by the province willing to grant 6 farmers certain permissions (which famously failed thereby creating an incredible impact on other businesses, leading to today’s so-called standstill in The Netherlands).

3) In

https://stichtingagrifacts.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Stikstoflogica3.pdf 

I suggest an alternative to the protocol involving the so-called KDW, now making use of DOGW and DBGW as lower and upper boundaries of the so-called empirical critical position value range. This work is connected to the “accusation” that the KDW is an intrinsically problematic concept which seems not to be fit for purpose.

4) In 

https://stichtingagrifacts.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Post-Remkes.pdf 

I provide some comments on the recent Report on the ‘stikstofcrisis’ by Remkes who was appointed as an intermediate between the government and the ecological movements on the one hand and certain groups of farmers and representatives of agricultural industry on the other hand. This text implicitly exposes certain biases in the propositions put forward by Remkes.

5) In 

https://stichtingagrifacts.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/KDW-SDW.pdf 

it is indicated how one may base a protocol for granting permissions may be created with the use of a combination of the new figure SDW (which was recenctly proposed by the FDF) and the conventional KDW.

6) In 

https://stichtingagrifacts.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ABRvS-Porthos_vragen.pdf 

one finds the “accusation” that the KDW does not exist (of in de opmerkelijk rake bewoordingen van minister Hoekstra: “de KDW is een gemankeerd instrument”, een formulering die existentie en non-existentie moeiteloos combineert) as well as te “accusation” that the logic employed by the Raad van State is flawed, with as an effect that it should be considered inconsequential that it can be derived that the “Bouwvrijstelling” is problematic.

7) In

https://stichtingagrifacts.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/PP-en-PAS-melders.pdf

I develop in more detail my criticism on the particular application of the precautionary principle as used by the “Raad van State” in its key ruling in 2019 which triggered the “stikstofcrisis” as currently perceived (het land zit op slot). Moreover I claim that these defects in the logic as employed by the “Raad van State” give rise to the idea (undeniably an accusation) that the so-called “PAS-meldersfuik” has in fact been created by the “Raad van State” themselves as a predictable side effect of the core of the ruling.

8) In

https://stichtingagrifacts.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/PP-en-misplaatste-dozen.pdf

I look at some 100 “uitspraken” (rulings) by the “Raad van State” about the simplest issues they are presented with: wrongly deposited paper boxes ending up besides, instead of inside, a container meant for such forms of waste. Now the municipality tries to find the owner of the box and to make them pay for waste removal. In three steps such cases reach the “Raad van State”, with a frequency of about one per week. Looking at these cases reveals intriguing patterns, including a remarkable instance of the application of a precautionary principle.

NEWER VERSION 1.2 of the text on ill-placed boxes besides deposition containers.

9) In the text below I investigate tenability (“houdbaarheid”) versus persistence of ABRvS rulings. This text is fairly technical and for that reason has not been posted on the Agrifacts site.

9) With Jaap Hanekamp I wrote a paper on the possible impact of errors of calculation (in terms of precision) on the validity of certain conclusions in ECLI:NLRVS:2019:1603