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Bill: Forest Protection Act of 2931
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertad Movement
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: May 2932
Description[?]:
| As we have approached a modern age, the party doesn't seem to comprehend why there is a need to cut down trees when we can surely use synthetic wood-like materials on the other hand. It is no longer an issue of practicality to buy wood, but rather an issue of vanity, to have whole furnitures, or pieces, made from 500 year-old trees so on and so forth. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning forest protection.
Old value:: Forests are protected. Logging is allowed by licence only.
Current: Forests have strictly enforced protection. Felling is limited to fire breaks.
Proposed: Forests have strictly enforced protection. Felling is limited to fire breaks.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:32:38, April 30, 2010 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Forest Protection Act of 2931 |
| Message | The Green Party strongly supports this proposal. It is what we have been proposing over the years. |
| Date | 09:35:06, May 01, 2010 CET | From | People's Party - Republican Democrats | To | Debating the Forest Protection Act of 2931 |
| Message | The People's Party remains vehemently opposed to this economically and ecologically naive proposal. The currnt regulation, whereby logging is only allowed by licenced AND planting trees at higher than replacement level is required is far more sensible. |
| Date | 18:28:24, May 01, 2010 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Forest Protection Act of 2931 |
| Message | We have to realise that replanting at however high a rate is not enough. Loggers are cutting down primary forests, whilst replanting secondary and tertiary ones. What are the differences? Primary forests are not only composed of trees, but also the plants that grow on the forest floor, the animals, insects and other organisms that call them habitat. Altogether, they form a very complex ecosystem that cannot be created by technology. |
| Date | 11:30:19, May 02, 2010 CET | From | People's Party - Republican Democrats | To | Debating the Forest Protection Act of 2931 |
| Message | The solution would be a very restrictive practice in granting licences for logging in primary forests, not almost completely depleting the economy of a relatively eco-friendly resource for manufacture, the substitution of which will cause pollution on a scale that is going to hit all types of forests alike. |
| Date | 15:39:38, May 02, 2010 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Forest Protection Act of 2931 |
| Message | Aldegar had had a policy of extensive replanting for a long time. Surely the logging industry can instead exploit our equally vast secondary and tertiary forests, and leave primary forests alone? |
| Date | 11:25:45, May 03, 2010 CET | From | People's Party - Republican Democrats | To | Debating the Forest Protection Act of 2931 |
| Message | Accordingly, there should be no licences for logging in primary forests granted (which we would term a very restrictive policy), while this act does protect ALL forests. |
| Date | 13:21:22, May 03, 2010 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Forest Protection Act of 2931 |
| Message | Well then it appears that there is a disparity in our interpretations. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 157 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 92 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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