Tribunal Won’t Order Netherlands To Cease Issuing Gas Tremor Levies

( January 21, 2026, 2:10 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published a procedural order in an arbitration between a Belgian oil company and the Kingdom of the Netherlands over the termination of drilling at a Dutch oilfield, with the tribunal declining the oil company’s request that it order the Netherlands to stop issuing levies to citizens who complain of gas production-linked tremors near the oilfield, with the company saying the levies are erroneous and have already exceeded 3.96 billion euros....