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Bill: Forestry Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Allianz für Freiheit
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: February 3452
Description[?]:
| A BILL to limit government intervention in forestry and the logging industry. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Forest management.
Old value:: There is a national agency which owns and manages all forest land.
Current: There is a national agency which owns and manages all forest land.
Proposed: There is a national agency which exists side-by-side with commercial forestry companies.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning forest protection.
Old value:: Forests have strictly enforced protection. Felling is limited to fire breaks.
Current: Forests are protected. Logging is allowed by licence only.
Proposed: The government has no policy on forest protection.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on tree plantation.
Old value:: The government requires tree plantation at higher than replacement levels for all logging or clearance operations.
Current: The government requires tree plantation at replacement level for all logging or clearance operations.
Proposed: The government encourages, but does not require new and replacement plantation.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:56:50, March 07, 2013 CET | From |  Allianz für Freiheit | To | Debating the Forestry Bill |
| Message | Der ehrenwerte Staatssekretar für Umwelt und Fremdenverkehr, Ralf Zimmer MR (AF, Hulstria): "Mr. Speaker, the AF sees no reason why forestry should be the exclusive domain of the national government. Private agencies are more than capable of administering our nation's forests. To that end, we propose a partial privatization of the forestry business. Also, the logging industry is dead in Hulstria and Gao-Soto due to excessive restrictions that virtually prevent its existence. We seek to rectify this problem by removing those restrictions." |
| Date | 18:57:51, March 07, 2013 CET | From | Allianz für Freiheit | To | Debating the Forestry Bill |
| Message | OOC: Sorry for brining it to a vote so early, but I wanted to make sure that voting would finish before the elections. |
| Date | 23:24:56, March 07, 2013 CET | From | Hosianisch-Demokratisches Verbund | To | Debating the Forestry Bill |
| Message | Die ehrenwerte Ministerin für Umwelt und Tourismus, Frau Briene Mayer MR (HDV, Budenlar Südküste) "Herr Präsident, While we would love to give this bill our support, especially as regards the privatisation of forestry, we are worried that our environmentally and touristically valuable forests will suffer from having no forest protection policy, and thus must respectfully dissent from our coalition collagues." |
| Date | 03:53:48, March 08, 2013 CET | From | Allianz für Freiheit | To | Debating the Forestry Bill |
| Message | Der ehrenwerte Staatssekretar für Umwelt und Fremdenverkehr, Ralf Zimmer MR (AF, Hulstria): "Herr Präsident, I'd like to hear the objections from some of the other parties." |
| Date | 12:38:22, March 08, 2013 CET | From | Demokratische Zentrumspartei | To | Debating the Forestry Bill |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, we need to keep in our minds the importance of the environment and the serious threat that environmental degredation poses to our nation. Gunther Scherer MR (DZP) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 285 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 465 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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