As a Dutch person I can confirm this article is:
1) Roughly correct chronologically.
2) COMPLETELY devoid of the actual political reasons behind this being done.
As it stands the local population has little more to show for it than demolished homes and damaged monuments and having an economic disease named after them.
Imagine how that would roughly unfold over a period of 70 years.
Sorry, I'm on mobile and it's a complex issue. This covers a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen_gas_field#Phasing_ou...