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Bill: Power Grid Act of 5084
Details
Submitted by[?]: Commonwealth Labour Party (CLP)
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: October 5085
Description[?]:
| A bill to establish a national power grid to mitigate the effects of regional power outages. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on the nation's power grid.
Old value:: Each region owns and maintains its own power grid.
Current: Multiple private companies each own and maintain sections of the national power grid.
Proposed: The national grid is fully owned by the state.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:12:12, March 06, 2022 CET | From | Liberal Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Power Grid Act of 5084 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We support this bill wholeheartedly. As we argued last time this bill was proposed, in order to ensure swift responses in the event of a disaster of some sort, a national grid is necessary. OOC: Experts think the power outages in Texas last winter were as bad as they were primarily because Texas had its own regional grid that couldn't be connected to the rest of the country fast enough. |
| Date | 13:30:29, March 07, 2022 CET | From | National Party | To | Debating the Power Grid Act of 5084 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Is the relationship between the Provinces that bad that they can't cooperate themselves? Has the Federal Government demonstrated that it is better at providing services than the Provinces? This fixes a problem that doesn't exist and potentially makes it even worse. |
| Date | 15:42:07, March 07, 2022 CET | From | Liberal Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Power Grid Act of 5084 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Provinces are able to work together, but if their grids are separate from one another, then the two provinces involved still have to agree on a way of doing it and then get it done, which is not a difficult task in terms of necessary cooperation, but can be very difficult in terms of actually getting the grids physically connected during an emergency bad enough to knock out a region's power supply. Even if it wasn't difficult, both stages of the process take unavoidable time, whereas if the grids were connected and under federal control in the first place, that preparation wouldn't be necessary. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 74 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 67 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 59 |
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