Several large integrated urban development projects have been financed with state revenues from natural gas. Gas from Groningen paid for costly HSL high speed line projects around rail stations Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag and Breda. Gas from Groningen also paid for development of the Amsterdam Zuidas business district. And the HSL South rail line, the Betuweroute, Mainport Development Rotterdam. For several years, state revenues from natural gas went into the Economic Structure Enhancing Fund. This fund was used to invest, amongst others, 16.9 million euro in South Holland - giving huge chunks of that region a vital economic role. Also, the glasshouse horticulture sector in South Holland was offered the natural gas at very low rates, so companies didn't need to import and store oil anymore. In summary: for decades, the enormous gas field that was discovered in 1959 near Slochteren in the province of Groningen has been the mainstay of Dutch economy and prosperity. Most of the wealth materialized outside of Groningen, in the Randstad conurbation.

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