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Bill: East Coast Marine Preservation Area
Details
Submitted by[?]: Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2050
Description[?]:
| In keeping with Lodamun's national parks law, and acknowledging that environmental issues often cross international borders, the governments of Gaduridos, Kalistan and Lodamun agree to enact an East Coast Marine Preservation Area. This area will guarantee protection of fragile offshore coral reefs and the fish stocks living in those habitats. Enforcement of the Preservation Area shall be left to the jurisdiction of each State, with the advice of a tri-national advisory board composed of one representative from each State. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:23:17, May 09, 2005 CET | From |  National People's Gang | To | Debating the East Coast Marine Preservation Area |
| Message | Excellent proposal. And, may I say, not before time. Only last weekend I took my family for a day trip to one of the more commercial centres along our eastern shore and was somewhat disgusted to find human faeces, yes, faeces, floating so close to the shoreline that our recreational rubber dinghy was temporarily invaded by at least two of them. Suffice to say, it put something of a damper on our enjoyment of the traditional candy floss, fish 'n' chips and one-arm bandits. |
| Date | 22:29:19, May 09, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the East Coast Marine Preservation Area |
| Message | Update: both Kalistan and Gaduridos have approved this measure. Is there any further discussion before this is moved to a vote? |
| Date | 23:05:21, May 09, 2005 CET | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the East Coast Marine Preservation Area |
| Message | Is there truly a need for an international committee on this? If this applies only to those areas in international waters, then the Council will support the bill, but there is no need to apply international measures to waters controlled by Lodamun itself. |
| Date | 23:14:25, May 09, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the East Coast Marine Preservation Area |
| Message | You can count on our support. |
| Date | 01:49:49, May 10, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the East Coast Marine Preservation Area |
| Message | The idea is an international treaty by which each state agrees to protect the marine areas. If the other parties do not feel an international committee is needed, then this clause can be removed. |
| Date | 03:45:15, May 10, 2005 CET | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the East Coast Marine Preservation Area |
| Message | The Council fails to see why Lodamun should make agreements to other nations that it will protect its own areas. This should be something we do in any case, regardless of whether or not other nations know about it. |
| Date | 15:39:19, May 10, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the East Coast Marine Preservation Area |
| Message | The CCF believes that the offshore marine habitat is a single ecosystem that would benefit from common stewardship. The sections in interational waters need common agreement from all neighbouring countries to protect them. The fact that all three nations agree by internaitonal treaty to respect the areas increases the commitment in each country to wise stewardship of marine habitats and associates us with our neighbours ina common endeavour to all our mutual benefit. Scientific expertise on coral-reef protection can be pooled. At the same time, the bill has been written in such a way as to ensure that the navies of other states have no enforcement power in our territorial waters. It is for all these reasons that the CCF recommends a yes vote on this treaty. |
| Date | 18:48:34, May 10, 2005 CET | From | National People's Gang | To | Debating the East Coast Marine Preservation Area |
| Message | AC - currently there's no agreement to stop our neighbours dumping into international waters where the tide and current brings their desposits to our beaches. |
| Date | 01:54:03, May 11, 2005 CET | From | Chorus of Amyst | To | Debating the East Coast Marine Preservation Area |
| Message | The Council appreciates the explanation offered by the CCF and the commentary of the Albert Party. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 88 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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