Neeroeteren file: Stefan Everts' message arrived at the Maaseik municipal council
The swipe from honorary citizen Stefan Everts to the municipal council of Maaseik in the Interest of Limburg on May 09, 2018 has reached that municipal council.
That is what we can deduce from the municipal council meeting last Monday, May 28, 2018. Judging from the answers that Neeroeters municipal councilor Pierre Hendrikx (VB) received from the municipal council to his questions about Stefan Everts' lashings, the message is even louder and clearly received.
Alternative pebble quarry?
Not that this means that the established bodies of Maaseiker politics have understood it and intend to exchange Stefans' statue for the organization of a motocross competition in Neeroeteren. No. And certainly not in the pebble quarry! When Hendrikx listed Everts' intentions, Alderman Raf Didden (CD&V) replied succinctly that 'there is not a single location' for motocross in Neeroeteren. So there isn't a piece of land anywhere on which one could organize a (one-off) cross? Perhaps the opposition should request documentation of that search for an alternative 'pebble quarry'. I fear that they will come home from a bare fair because I never believe that they really looked for that in Maaseik. Just as I believe less and less every day that all those other governments in our dear monkey country are really seriously looking for cross-country areas. Let's be honest, Stefan Everts is simply right. If they cannot be at the front of the photos, we have little to expect from our politicians.
Want to explore the bottom further?
Councilor Hendrikx also asked about the status of the drilling for the dump in the subsoil of the gravel quarry cross terrain. In that respect there was surprising information to be gleaned. Apparently the soil research has not yet been completed. Contrary to what I was told earlier, Alderman Didden now said 'that additional drilling is still necessary'. Would they feel wet there in Maaseik after we previously spread the news that 'coincidentally' drilling was taking place considerably from the 'dumping direction'? As you know, I have already formally given my willing cooperation in that investigation. I haven't heard anything about that yet. I therefore wonder whether they continue the drilling to find something, or to find even more clearly nothing. Well, I can't help it, but trusting politicians is just not my thing.
Are they now also using the compensation soil from the pebble quarry?
Another interesting question from Hendrikx was about the compensation area that was once reserved for the motocross terrain. The Nieuwsblad of May 18, 2018 states that in order to connect the Hoge Kempen National Park with the Bergerven nature reserve and the Dune Belt, agricultural land in Dorne-Opoeteren will be added to the project. Just a quick reminder: At the time we were fighting to regularize the pebble quarry from a nature reserve to a recreational area, two compensation areas were provided in planning terms (See MER MC Maasland, table 2.1). One area was located on the Jagersborg site, another was located in Dorne-Opoeteren (MER Mc Maasland 8.2.6, Proposed compensation area Dorne-Opoeteren). That area from the EIA corresponds quite closely with the area mentioned in the newspaper. So the question is whether our municipal council finally started using the compensation land for the pebble quarry? Alderman Didden did not actually answer that question. He cycled around the hot potato like an accomplished acrobat by stating that now that the pebble quarry is a nature reserve, there is no longer any need for compensation land. We were not told that it was about our compensation area, nor that it was not about it. This means that we do not know whether the compensation area of the cross has now been traded or not, so we do not know whether that area could ever serve as a future compensation area for a possible future cross terrain or not.
Creemers puts the finishing touches on the i?
After Alderman Didden had given his disappointing answers, my good friend Mayor Creemers concluded with the message that they had crossed the i's and crossed the i's. Quod nun! They put dots everywhere except the 'i'! I can feel in my tea water that we are getting closer to the truth in this file. The truth why we were (and are) let down by our municipal council at crucial moments. We are gradually entering the phase where we will know the real ups and downs of the loss of our sporting heritage. How do you say that again? “You can fool some people all the time and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.”
Let it be a lesson for politicians who like to turn the cross page quickly and silently.
To be continued!
Kevin Moonen
Photos: ADAC Motorsport, Pixelpony, MX Brothers
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