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Bill: Tree Planting Encouragement Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Partiya Rizgarî ya Bamenistan
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: March 2179
Description[?]:
| The state should encourage tree planting. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on tree plantation.
Old value:: The government requires tree plantation at replacement level for all logging or clearance operations.
Current: The government requires tree plantation at higher than replacement levels 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 | 22:20:48, January 26, 2006 CET | From | Bastiat Party | To | Debating the Tree Planting Encouragement Act |
| Message | Agree. What a crazy law in the first place. |
| Date | 00:07:25, January 28, 2006 CET | From | Modern Intellectual Party | To | Debating the Tree Planting Encouragement Act |
| Message | It is not a crazy law, is it not obvious that if trees are not replaced as they are cut down eventually there will be no more trees? Especially at the amazingly fast rate at which they can be cut down. And i'm sure logging companies would take encouragement very seriously, as they would be happy to willingly go to the expense and trouble of replacing every tree |
| Date | 00:50:55, January 28, 2006 CET | From | Partiya Rizgarî ya Bamenistan | To | Debating the Tree Planting Encouragement Act |
| Message | Of course logging companies will replant as well. This act just reduces bureaucracy. |
| Date | 02:28:15, January 29, 2006 CET | From | Cydweith Rhydd | To | Debating the Tree Planting Encouragement Act |
| Message | Erm, no it doesn't. It means that logging companies can simply refuse to replant if they feel so inclined. |
| Date | 09:13:41, January 29, 2006 CET | From | Partiya Rizgarî ya Bamenistan | To | Debating the Tree Planting Encouragement Act |
| Message | If they do not replant these companies will go bankrupt. So, its in their own interest to replant. But more needless bureaucracy means more civil servants of course....a nice job plan.... |
| Date | 20:28:14, January 29, 2006 CET | From | Modern Intellectual Party | To | Debating the Tree Planting Encouragement Act |
| Message | Replacing trees will mean expenditure and time, you seem to have some golden ideal of corporations that has no basis in reality. In the long term, yes, it would make business sense to replace the trees but that is not generally how corporations work, they want short term benefits. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 179 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 56 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 166 |
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