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Bill: Pollution Standards
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Bolshevik 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: February 2627
Description[?]:
| Pollution of others' environment without consent violates and disvalues their property, whether it be air quality, global temperatures, cancer risks etc. There is a need to hold responsible any polluting entities for moderate restrictions to encourage them to become more efficient. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of pollution in industry.
Old value:: The government provides pollution prevention guidelines, but does not enforce them.
Current: The government enforces highly restrictive industrial pollution standards.
Proposed: The government enforces moderate pollution restrictions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:00:22, August 25, 2008 CET | From | Party | To | Debating the Pollution Standards |
| Message | Though we are in favor of protecting the environment, we cannot allow the federal government to have such power. Local governments should decide this. |
| Date | 04:08:56, August 25, 2008 CET | From | Dranland First Party (CC) | To | Debating the Pollution Standards |
| Message | We agree - surely this is not an issue of national concern, and has no need for unification in policy. Let local governments determine their own approaches to their own particular issues in this area. |
| Date | 04:36:41, August 25, 2008 CET | From | National Bolshevik Party | To | Debating the Pollution Standards |
| Message | The problem is repercussions of pollution do not subsist in one arbirtrary border and desist in another; Dranland needs a comprehensive solution with interregional information and cooperation. Companies will just gravitate toward the province with the least pollution restrictions, leaving the other provinces' poorer and their attempts to curb pollution futile. Local governments deal magnificently with issues affecting diverse conditions on a small scale; this is the complete opposite. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 138 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 127 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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