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Bill: Bill NP-109: Ban whaling
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Progress Party
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 4253
Description[?]:
| (This bill was proposed by the minister of Environment and Tourism Harvey Adams) The biodiversity of Hutori is not the property of one province, the biodiversity of Hutori is the property every hutorian. Whales are an endangered animal and if we don't do anything whales are going to go extinct. Some people may say that this bill infringe the provinces rights, but we believe that we shouldn't ever give to the province the power to take a bad decision, we shouldn't give to the province the right to power whaling. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on whaling.
Old value:: Local governments decide about whaling.
Current: Commercial whaling is legal and not subject to restrictions.
Proposed: Commercial whaling is legal, but the government establishes whaling quotas.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:51:35, August 04, 2017 CET | From | National Progress Party | To | Debating the Bill NP-109: Ban whaling |
| Message | Mr. Speaker I hereby open this proposal to debate. -Elaine Mccray Minister of Education and Culture |
| Date | 09:52:16, August 04, 2017 CET | From | National Progress Party | To | Debating the Bill NP-109: Ban whaling |
| Message | *-Harvey Adams Minister of Environment and Tourism |
| Date | 19:03:00, August 04, 2017 CET | From | Federal Heritage Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Bill NP-109: Ban whaling |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, While we are not necessarily in disagreement with the NPP we are a bit skeptical. What evidence do they have that whales are endangered? Furthermore, are all whales endangered? Or just some? Personally, I believe a quota system would be better than an out right ban. Senator Wyatt McLaughlin (F-AD) Federalist Senate Leader OOC: Just because something is endangered in real-life doesn't make endangered in the game. |
| Date | 22:00:53, August 05, 2017 CET | From | National Progress Party | To | Debating the Bill NP-109: Ban whaling |
| Message | Mr. Speaker Well, maybe I have exagerated a little when I said that the whales where endegered. The whales are not technically in the ''endegered'' category but, many scientist of the ministry of Environment ad Tourism have said the the humber of whale in our seas have decrease considerably over the last centuries. If we don't do anything quickly, the whales may become endegered soon and the may even go extinct in a distanc futur. -Harvey Adams Minister of Environment and Tourism OOC: It's true that a animal that is in endegered in real life is not necessarily endegered in the game but it would make sens for whale to be endegered even in the game. As in game whale follow the same biological rules as real one, the whales are very sensible to pollution and their population grow extremely slowly and because whaling was legal for so many year it would be normal for the whale population to decrease. And don't forget that even you claim that the whale was a endegered specie in 4136 ''Perhaps if the NPP would quit supporting legislation that prohibited the operation of Hutorian companies on Hutorian soil then they wouldn't have to propose the hunting of endangered species to supplement the Hutorian job market.'' ( http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=496397 ) |
| Date | 06:26:16, August 06, 2017 CET | From | Hutori Freedom Party | To | Debating the Bill NP-109: Ban whaling |
| Message | Mr. Speaker It is of our opinion that to outright ban whaling in the province would be gross government overreach. This decision to not support the proposal by the NPP is one of principles. Regardless of whether we agree or disagree with the whaling being done and it's effect on a decreasing species, it is not the role of our federal government to make that decision for the province. - Hutori Freedom Party. |
| Date | 07:27:01, August 06, 2017 CET | From | Federal Heritage Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Bill NP-109: Ban whaling |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Perhaps we should put quotas on whaling on a species by species basis. That we could preserve both our economy and the whale populations. Senator Wyatt McLaughlin (F-AD) Federalist Senate Leader OOC: Well the factors are not the same in Terra as RL. For instance climate change in Terra from what I understand is global cooling not warming. (I could be wrong) |
| Date | 07:46:32, August 06, 2017 CET | From | National Progress Party | To | Debating the Bill NP-109: Ban whaling |
| Message | Mr. Speaker That seems like a fair deal to us. -Harvey Adams Minister of Environment and Tourism OOC: Well, climate change is not what affect the whales the most. Plastic pollution is what really kill them. |
| Date | 08:04:58, August 06, 2017 CET | From | National Progress Party | To | Debating the Bill NP-109: Ban whaling |
| Message | OOC: I am sorry I have forgot to change the name of the proposal it was suppose to be ''Regulation on whaling act'' |
| Date | 08:18:08, August 06, 2017 CET | From | Federal Heritage Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Bill NP-109: Ban whaling |
| Message | OOC: No Problem. Well that and oceanic acidifcation caused by rising global temperatures. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 421 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 184 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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