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Bill: Environmental protection Act of 2458
Details
Submitted by[?]: 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2458
Description[?]:
| The DSP, in further bids to protect the environment, has noticed to laws that degrade the environment, and therefore we propose changing them. Logging is currently left up to local governments, now overall we don't have a problem with the local governments deciding on this, however we believe that there should be enforced quotas. As it stands pesticides are allowed to be used, which to be quite honest astounded the DSP that such dangerous chemicals are allowed to be used in the growing of the food that not only feeds our people, but brings our economy food through its exportation. The DSP believes that pesticides and all other unnatural chemicals like these be banned, as studies have shown that having a natural system set-up works much better anyways. Therefore the DSP proposes the following; -Forests are protected. Logging is allowed by license only. -Chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are banned. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning forest protection.
Old value:: Forest protection is left to local governments.
Current: Forests have strictly enforced protection. Felling is limited to fire breaks.
Proposed: Forests are protected. Logging is allowed by licence only.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the use of pesticides.
Old value:: The government approves and regulates agricultural chemical use.
Current: Local governments may choose to regulate pesticides certification programs.
Proposed: Chemical pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:32:31, September 19, 2007 CET | From | Plato's Republican Party | To | Debating the Environmental protection Act of 2458 |
| Message | Plato's Republicans understand the concern with chemicals used in agriculture, but the fact is that many of these chemicals are totally safe, and the ones that are not fall under the category of "unapproved." So-called "natural" systems are in fact expensive, unwieldy, and less productive than systems which utilize safe, studied, and understood methods of agricultural chemistry. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 113 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 486 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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