Dundorf

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ALORIAN KC GRAND AVAILABLE IN ALL BUNDESLANDER IN DUNDORF

Volzhaus, July 13, 5304: With the opening of its Sales Service and Repair Facilities in Volzhaus today, Dinkelacker – Bruder is now making available the popular KC Grand sports utility vehicle produced by KC Motors of Aloria in all Bundeslander in Bundesrepublik Dundorf. Dinkelacker – Bruder has its flagship facility in Vogelsburg in Dunlake together with its corporate headquarters. It first expanded first into Unterschloss in Oderveld and Fuchstal in Chontalan.

It then opened facilities in Nordenhaus and Oberegg in its home Bundeslander of Dunlake before going to Grosvik to open a facility in Karlsborn. Now finally with the grand opening today the KC Grand can be bought in any Bundesander.

KC Motors retains a 15% interest in Dinkelacker – Bruder. KC Motors itself is 50 % owned by various Badaran interests most notably Qat Oil Services and Mu’tassim Enterprises. Major Alorian intersts in KC Motors include Aloria Capital Holdings, Bronze Plate initiatives and Aloria Finance and Investment Ventures.

Dinkelacker-Bruder began in Vogelsburg as a truck service and repair facility as well as a used truck business. It has gotten into the bio tractor business with Inland Bio including production facilities in Aloria. More recently it has expanded its business into Kundrati.

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NDZP's Wolfram v. Jagow

NDZP FAILS TO EXPLAIN SELLOUT OF RIGHT

Bundestag,, August 13, 5307: ODERVELD – LEUCHTFEUER asked Wolfram v. Jagow who was briefly Foreign Minister in the Federal Council of the most recent Strache Administration why the Neues Dundorfische Zenstrums Partei (NDZP) voted for new elections resulting in another DSDP led administration. The former Federal Council member did respond:

The view of the NDZP leadership was that fairness in the particular circumstances at hand meant agreeing to a new election. I was among those agreeing with this position. There were those warning that this would be treated as betrayal by the FVP and KBD which has in fact occurred.

Some of our party were more aware than others of the consequences which is in fact virtually total breach with the other parties of our former coalition. Think it is fair to say it has put us in a very awkward position. In fact we are hearing former supporters say the vote was a self inflicted mortal wound.

I am among those planning to go forward continuing to represent our constituency as best we can.

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NDZP'S Hermann Klopfer

NDZP SOLE OPPOSITION TO CLOSING NUCLEAR PLANTS

Bundestag, January 13, 5308: After the vote in the Bundestag to close nuclear power stations which measure was opposed only by Neues Dundorfische Zenstrumspartei (NDZP), ODERVELD – LEUCHTFEUER asked NDZP Secretary Hermann Klopfer if NDZP was going to leave that issue alone. Klopfer responded:

Not exactly. With the ruling coalition largely voting for the bill and only NDZP voting against, there is no point in expecting to overturn the decision right away. Obviously, if the opportunity to reverse the ban presents itself we will take it since we believe nuclear power generated electricity is something we should have. And were fortunate to have because of technological aid from the Kingdom of Dorvik and uranium supplies from the Kundrati Union.

But until such time as the opportunity arises we will focus on two things. First we must convince the public nuclear power plants can be safe not hazardous when the proper procedures are in place. We feel this may be an underlying factor in opposing this clean energy source by parties normally tending to support green energy.

Second, closing down our nuclear reactors is not a matter of simply turning off the electricity or unplugging them from our power grid. The uranium used to generate electricity can not be dumped in the nearest land fill but must be properly stored. I do mean must. We will be asking the governing coalition how it is handling the nuclear waste it has created.

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NDZP's Falkenhorst

NDZP EXPECTS STATUS QUO FROM ELECTIONS

Neukirchstadt, April 16, 5309: ODERVELD-LEUCHTFEUER asked the Neue Dundorfische Zentrumspartei (NDZP) Bundestag Floor Leader, Fredericke Falkenhorst, who was meeting with party precinct leaders at the NDZP Headquarters, how she expected the election in a couple of months to go, and she replied.

Think we will end up about where we are as far as which parties will be governing. NDZP does not expect big losses but you never know. We expect parties on right to get about the same number of votes and resemble their current support level. The left and center are likely to look somewhat different.

The right is divided this time so it is unlikely to be in a position to form a government. The left will be reforming and frankly we expect it to form a ruling coalition. It is also a possibility that a party of the center could organize a government which would certainly be a change.

So our expectation is that there will not be much change in the votes for the right and that the opportunity to form a government is most likely to be exercised by the left but that the possibility of a centrist coming forward is not out of the question.

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NDZP's Willi v. Klugermann

5309 ELECTION RESULTS

Bundestag, August 10, 5309: NDZP Assistant Party Secretary Wilhelm v. Klugermann discussed the election with ODERVELD – LEUCHTFEUER saying:

First, we congratulate Neue Liberale Partei’s Karen Main on her victory being elected President of the Bundesrepublik.

The Bundestag seats are allocated as follows:

FVP 115
KBD 68
NDZP 84
ODP 31
NLP 47
Bierparei 33
DSDP 49
LO 171

Obviously, the current governing coalition of Chancellor Eric Gaines consisting of LO, DSDP, NLP and ODP has 298 votes and so is theoretically vulnerable to being replaced. If one looks strictly at each party as left or right, the left has 300 while the right has 298. The parties that have on several occasions formed a right coalition got 267 votes, a loss of 3.

With 171 Bundestag seats the Linke Okologen clearly has the initiative to shape the next government.

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NDZP's Wolfram v. Jagow

LINKE OKOLOGEN LED COALITION OF LO – NLP – NDZP FORMED

Bundestag, September 3, 5309: In what came as a surprise to many, Linke Okologen’s (LO) Katharina Brugger will be the Chancellor heading the Federal Council consisting of LO, Neue Liberale Partei (NLP) and Neue Dundorfische Zentrumspartei (NDZP ) members of the Bundestag. ODERVELD – LEUCHTFEUER asked NDZP’s Wolfram v. Jagow if the government being formed would be centrist as it is proclaiming, and he responded.

That is the intent. Events will ultimately shape the direction but the idea of having a government formed from the center rather than the right or left was the genesis of this coalition. We are all certainly aware that our voting records are not identical. Not at all identical. But we want to work together.

Think we are all hopeful we can. Mutual respect is likely the key to making this possible. We know that for some time there has been a pattern of parties with domestic issue similarities dividing into two camps so that governments were either left or right. There were exceptions but very few.

We are going to try something different and we are well aware many believe the idea of starting at the center rather than the poles is doomed. We are entering this experiment with optimism. NDZP is happy to join Linke Okologen and Neue Liberale Partei in a government led by Chancellor Brugger.

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President Karen Main

KAREN MAIN FIRST NLP PRESIDENT

Dunburg, February 3, 5210: In pretty much a surprise to most political observers, Karen Main of the Neue Liberale Partei (NLP) was elected President of the Bundesrepublik in the election of August 5309. She led the voting in the first round and won decisively in the second round. ODERVELD – LEUCHTFEUER asked Interior Minister Wolfram v. Jagow what was the likely explanation, and he responded.

President Main had secured the backing of several parties including those in the current governing coalition as the leader of the Neue Liberalre Partei (NLP) who was a persuasive and consistent advocate of an alternative to rule by the left or the right which she sees as governing from the center. She is viewed by many as the architect of that approach and certainly one of those laying a foundation for Chancellor Kathrina Brugger of Linke Okologen to bring together the current governing coalition.

The election of President Main was seen as remarkable by some since NLP was in its first election in 5306 and while doing very well in the second election of 5306, actually lost seats in 5309 while President Main was being elected nationwide.

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Linke Ökologen celebrate on election win and form centrist government


Katharina Brugger

After Linke Ökologen’s landslide victory, taking control of 171 seats in the chamber, party leader and former environment minister Katharina Brugger has managed to negotiate a centrist coalition with the Neue Dundorfische Zentrumspartei and Neue Liberale Partei. The scale of LÖ’s victory and the coalition is unexpected by many in the Dundorf political scene. This is because many thought that the social democrats would hold more ground to the new movement which contested all regions for the first time in this election. Also as a left-wing movement most thought a coalition with its previous partners and the Bierparti would be organised but Brugger thought it was best to work with the centre. She had this to say about the government.

I am so thrilled to have become Bundeskanzlin of Dundorf. The idea for this cabinet came from the NLP wish to form a cabinet around the centre. This party had a great working relationship with the NLP in the previous government so we thought we should act on that. Negotiations to form this cabinet were quick as the NDZP were open to the idea as well and worked with both parties in the presidential election. We have all accepted that our beliefs may be different, we can all agree to disagree and govern Dundorf well with stability. Also in some areas such as Nuclear policy there is some common ground which we will act on to improve national policy.

Former Infrastructure minister Otto Wolfgang has become Foreign Affairs minister and will lead negotiations to create some foreign trade deals with other nations along with the NLP’s trade minister Theo Schmidt to improve Dundorf’s international standing. Action on this will be taken in the latter part of the government’s time in office. This government has also meant lots of new LÖ ministers have taken office and will try to improve the public services the party cares so much about.

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BIOBUSES TO GO TO UNTERSCHLOSS AND NEUKIRCHSTADT

Dunburg, February 22, 5311: ODERVELD – LEUCHTFEUER has learned that there was a meeting today of Inland Bio management and Minister of Science and Technol-ogy Hermann Klopfer and his staff in Ministry Offices. Inland Bio has long been supplying buses running on biofuels to Airport Services which have been running shuttles from the air-port in Dunburg to hotels in Dunburg. Initially seventeen hotels. Inland Bio bought out and absorbed Airport Services. Having done so, Inland Bio expanded service by also sending shuttles to Freie Universität Dunburg and Stadtuniversitat Dunburg.

Inland Bio now wants to provide biobus services linking Dunburg to the down town hotel area of Unterscloss north of the river going through Dunburg in Oberveld and Neukirchstafdt south of that river also in Oberveld. Service would also reach Karl Ulrich Universitat in Unterschloss. This is a large expansion but Klopfer was very much inclined to obligate loan funds available at Central Bank appropriated to the Science and Technology Ministry and agreed to the loan. Fendelhorst, Braunschweiger and Dorfmann will be handling loan closing documentation.

The bio buses are powered by biomethane made from sewage and food waste. The production process used by Inland Bio to produce the renewable natural gas biomethane will be anaerobic digestion of the organic material or biomethanation. Inland Bio has bought controlling interest in Auslander, owner of a fertilizer plant which manufactures fertilizer under the trade name Dungemittel, and which processes biomethane from the fertilizer production plant. Inland Bio further makes any adaptation in the bus engines necessary to run on biomethane.

The bio buses produce 20-30% less carbon dioxide than comparable diesel engine buses and 80% fewer carbon oxides as well. They are low in particulates entering the atmosphere. A tank of the fuel will allow the bio bus to travel about 300 kilometers; refueling will be at the plant which is convenient to the airport. Inland Bio will be setting up refuelling stations in Unterschloss and Neukirchstadt as well as a transit refueling stop on the road to each.



OOC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio_bus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomethane

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NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SHUTDOWN EMPHASIZES SAFETY

Dunburg, February 22, 5312: After a Ministry staff meeting on metallurgy educa-tion grants, the Minister of Science and Technology Hermann Klopfer was asked by ODERVELD – LEUCHTFEUER what was happening with the three nuclear power plants which were being operated in Dundorf, and he replied:

Beginning in 5254, the Kingdom of Dorvik’s Natural Resources Technical Management Corpoation (NTVS) through its subsidiary Kernau AG constructed three nuclear power plants including one in Julstoch employing primarily Dundorfian workers. These were turned over to Atomwerk AG (or Dundirfian Nuclear Power Company) owned initially by NTVS and the Government of Dundorf with a few to allowing private investment.

In May 5307 the Bundestag voted to make generation of electricity by nuclear power impermissible. We will leave it to the Chancellor and Finance Minister to explain the economics involved and to the Foreign Office to explain the diplomatic repercussions; I will try to explain the measures we took to implement this decision. Probably the most important thing to understand is that even though the nuclear reactor is not producing electricity, the reactor core must continue to be called for a very long time.

Two other things to understand. If we permanently close a plant, this leaves us with uranium that must be stored in such manner as not to allow raduiation to kill or adbversely affect the population. This is expensive and goes on for many years. So safely containing the active components is a serous safety problem.

Second, three plants were producing a lot of electricity so this must be generated in new electric power plants to contribute to the electrical grid. We are maintaining the staus quo for now. that is no electricity from nuclear power plants, but the plants are simply inoperative at producing electricity not permanently dismantled as yet.

Let me just say safety of the employees involved and our population is our man concern just as has been the case since we got into the nuclear power business.