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Bill: Ecological reform package
Details
Submitted by[?]: Druidic Popular Front
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 4171
Description[?]:
| Mr Speaker, Many of the issues raised by the PSD and others are very relevant, but cannot be solved without the help of the entrepreneurs of the free market. We should raise our environmental standards immensely and retake the ultimate responsibility of our natural resources, our heritage, while leaving day-to-day work to competent private entrepreneurs who are able to bring us cost-effective services. We shall subsidize farmers who produce crops in an environmentally friendly way. Non organic or GMO products should not be produced on Dranish soil. This is an issue that affects us all and not just as private individuals, as the hormones and poison used to produce the other products contaminates the water and the air and affects us all in various negative ways. Trystan Castle Minister of Environment and Tourism |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government denies subsidy assistance to farmers.
Current: All agricultural operations are state-owned and operated.
Proposed: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Forest management.
Old value:: There is a national agency which exists side-by-side with commercial forestry companies.
Current: There is a national agency which owns and manages all forest land.
Proposed: There is a national agency which owns all forests, but subcontracts the work to private companies.
Article 3
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.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning genetically modified (GM) crops.
Old value:: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Current: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Proposed: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are banned.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the use of pesticides.
Old value:: The government approves and regulates agricultural chemical use.
Current: Farmers are required to list chemicals used on their crops.
Proposed: Chemical pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are banned.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of pollution in industry.
Old value:: The government enforces moderate pollution restrictions.
Current: The government enforces highly restrictive industrial pollution standards.
Proposed: The government enforces highly restrictive industrial pollution standards.
Article 7
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 requires tree plantation at higher than replacement levels for all logging or clearance operations.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:07:30, February 23, 2017 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Ecological reform package |
| Message | Mr Speaker, this bill will impose a blanket ban on conventional farming and the logging industry, increase food prices by abolishing innovative techniques such as growing GM crops and hit manufacturing hard by upping pollution standards even more. A subsidy will not compensate for the great loss in productive capacity and competitivity, it is absolutely obvious that to let this bill pass will impose ruin and devastation on rural communities. Although this shall not affect the coalition, I will hand in my resignation if it becomes law, for I cannot justify it before the people of my constituency - or indeed, God - to administer its draconian provisions. Sérgio Vasconcelos MLC Minister of Food and Agriculture |
| Date | 11:40:45, February 23, 2017 CET | From | 반동주의자당 (Bandongjuuijadang) | To | Debating the Ecological reform package |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Why are white people so obsessed with nature? The answer is obvious, they are closer to animals than the rest of us! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 138 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 112 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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