The province of Groningen (in the northern Netherlands) has announced it will file a formal complaint against the Farmers Defence Force (FDF), a Dutch agricultural activist group, after the organisation threatened "war" if the forced expropriation of a farming family's land was not reversed. The province voted this week to compulsorily acquire 31 hectares of farmland in Lucaswolde from the Van der Veen family to build a water storage facility designed to prevent flooding, a project a decade in the making. Provincial commissioner René Paas described the FDF's ultimatum to politicians as intimidation, saying no lobby group has the right to pressure elected representatives over their votes, while the farming family itself called the situation distressing and expressed hope for a genuine resolution.