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UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION #11

Ban Single-Hulled Tankers
A resolution to increase the quality of the world's environment, at the expense of industry.


Category: Environmental
Industry Affected: All Businesses
Proposed by: The imperial senators

Description: Ban Single-Hulled Tankers!

Leaky single-hulled tanker ships can cause enormous environmental damage and cost millions of dollars to clean up. Millions of barrels of crude oil are lost to the oil-hungry nations of the world. We must unite to ban single-hulled tankers and endorse the use of double-hulled tankers. This would prevent environmental disasters like the one caused by the damaged tanker off the coast of Spain in 2002 and help lower the cost of fuel as more would be reliably available to every nation. It would also be a boon to fishing, tourism, and shipbuilding industries.


Votes For: 16,664
Votes Against: 2,670

Implemented: Mon Apr 28 2003

As we know that one of the rules for submitting proposals is that the proposal cannot mention any real world elements. This resolution mentions Spain but there is no Spain in NationStates therefore it must be negated. I was thinking of putting in a repeal but I am not sure how that will work amongst the people and I am needing one more endorsement.

Please discuss about this issue and if someone can help with this topic.

Those rules weren't invented when that resolution was written. Further, if you base your repeal on that, it will be deleted, not the resolution.

Here's a better idea: look at Resolution #58, and base a repeal on #11 on the fact it is now totally redundant.

Thanks for giving me that info.

Not only were the rules not written then, but Moderators didn't even exist then.

All the more reason to repeal.

You know, I'm pretty certain there is actually a Spain in Nationstates. If not a nation, then a region.