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Bill: Modern Ecology: - Forestry Commission Logging Restrictions Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Green-Left Communalist Collective
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 3482
Description[?]:
| Our nation faces a crisis. A crisis of ecology. We must act to ensure the protection of our ecosystems. Act to ensure that the nation's fragile ecosystems remain intact, untouched by humanity. Article 1: Clause A - the reasonable number of local forestry agencies that operate sustainable timber yards will supply the national market with an adequate national quantity of usable timer. Our syndicate proposes that all wood must be strictly recycled to ensure an appropriate wood supply under Article 1, and that renewable, sustainable timber sources from our larger neighbour's logging forests be imported for furniture, carpentry, joinery and construction alongside the nation's sustainable timer yards, operated by the Regional Forestry Commissions. Clause B - This legislation seeks not to ban logging entirely, but to severely limit the habitat destruction caused by the generous granting of licences to woodland that should be under strict protection. Ikradon has always had a rich and protected wilderness, and where there is the decent number of specifically bred woodlands for the purpose of felling; let them remain. But we propose that the Regional Forestry Commissions' Departments of Woodland Ecosystem Protection limit the amount of licences and woodland for logging use. Let this nation's rich, ancient, sacred forests be enjoyed by future generations. Let us, as a nation, think in the long term and cease the generous granting of licences by the RFCs, and of the scores of licences given to the land-based collectives seeking to clear woodland for agricultural use. |
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 | 11:44:24, May 06, 2013 CET | From |  Republican Party | To | Debating the Modern Ecology: - Forestry Commission Logging Restrictions Act |
| Message | I agree ... |
| Date | 12:26:57, May 06, 2013 CET | From | Green-Left Communalist Collective | To | Debating the Modern Ecology: - Forestry Commission Logging Restrictions Act |
| Message | We are happy to have the support of this Government. |
| Date | 13:15:23, May 06, 2013 CET | From | Conservative Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Modern Ecology: - Forestry Commission Logging Restrictions Act |
| Message | This will just remove yet another aspect of our economy. We already have sustainable logging and replanting laws. |
| Date | 11:50:05, May 07, 2013 CET | From | SCI Libertarian-Socialist Syndicate (LL) | To | Debating the Modern Ecology: - Forestry Commission Logging Restrictions Act |
| Message | While this is an admirable end-goal, we desire to keep the workers employed in the timber and replanting industries until such time that a suitable substitute can supplant timber as a base construction material. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 197 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 553 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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