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Bill: Clean Industry Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Leviathan Party
Status[?]: passed
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: August 2041
Description[?]:
| While growth and production is necessary to provide economic prosperity and stability, we must have government regulation of polution to prevent the poisoning of our citizens or our air and water commons. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of pollution in industry.
Old value:: Industrial pollution is not regulated by the government.
Current: The government enforces moderate pollution restrictions.
Proposed: The government enforces moderate pollution restrictions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
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From | LibCom Party | To | Debating the Clean Industry Act | | Message | Well moderate isn't really defined, but I certainly support restrictions on pollution. |
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From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Clean Industry Act | | Message | It would be too much to place very strict restrictions on industry overnight so we support this moderate approach. |
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From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Clean Industry Act | | Message | The options in this case do not have enough shades of grey. I would be interested in how allowed levels of pollution are determined. Is it at the industry or factory level. Can the factories trade excess levels when a certain plant is underpolluting to another which is over. I am not a fan of the one size fits all. |
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From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Clean Industry Act | | Message | Agreed that the proposals often don't allow for th shades of grey we may like. I suppose we could vote on this in principle and then table a seperate bill, or ammend this one during this debate, to define, in very simple terms, how we would implement it. |
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From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Clean Industry Act | | Message | It is not an acceptable solution to allow businsesses to 'average out' pollution, as the invariable result is the toxification of lower income neighborhoods. Pollution must be measured on each site seperately to ensure that the poor or politically underrepresented are not left holding the big barrel of toxic waste. |
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From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Clean Industry Act | | Message | I tend to agree on the polution credit trading. It would also be very difficult to police. |
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From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Clean Industry Act | | Message | We won't start a debate on pollution credit, yet. Though we must admit curiousity about what sort of polluting industry you are picturing located in a well off neighborhood. And why this would be harder to police then other polution control. It is not an issue studied closely by the party so we are interested in the reasons presented. |
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From | Radical Centrists | To | Debating the Clean Industry Act | | Message | Well, the carbon trading scheme is something we would be prepared to support, but that is for later... |
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From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Clean Industry Act | | Message | It's not that polluting industries set up in upper class neighborhoods, its that where new industry is created, residential development follows. If there are toxins in the water and dirty air, property values will be low, and thus only people who can't afford anything better will live there.
We're not sure exactly what the LP means that it is more difficult to police, but in terms of accountability, on site standards are quite simple to enforce. Every site must pass inspection, period end of story. No shuffling papers, no trying to write off infractions. |
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From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Clean Industry Act | | Message | Ok, it's not denccessarily more difficult to police, but a larger bureaucracy is needed to do so. You can no longer determine whether a polluter is over the limit or not because you'd have to look at what allowances they've traded with others.
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From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Clean Industry Act | | Message | Not convinced that will be much harder to do. With a one size fits all policy it tends to gravitate toward a less strick policy on average to allow for older plants time to catch up. Thus I cannot support the bill as written. |
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| Vote |
Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 70 |
| no | Total Seats: 15 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 10 |
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