Heat, Power and Utilities
“The heat under this island belongs to everyone stood on it and to nobody who’d sell it.” The things everybody needs are owned in common, and they don’t get privatised by any procedure going, referendum included.
Owned in common
Article 72 lists what the Republic owns and will never sell: the heat and its network, electricity, water, sewerage, waste, the telecommunications backbone, the Health Service, the schools and universities, the trains, ferries and buses, the airport, the State broadcaster and the National Computing Facility. Non-profit bodies may run them on the Republic’s behalf. Nobody may own them.
Heat
Geothermal heat from the island’s volcanic geology warms every home, delivered at what it costs to get there and at no profit to anyone (Article 11). The heat and the National Computing Facility can never be transferred to a foreign power, in exchange for anything (Forty-second Amendment).
Electricity
All of it geothermal. Dingle has never needed fossil fuels for power, and since the Twenty-second Amendment it isn’t allowed them.
Nobody gets cut off
No home with anyone living in it gets cut off. Not for arrears. Not for anything (Article 11).
Water and waste
Water, sewerage and waste are public services. Your bin is purple. It has always been purple.
Broadband and mobile
Broadband and mobile networks are utilities under the Twenty-ninth Amendment, because you now need them to claim, to see a doctor and to go to school.
Trains, buses and ferries
Public transport is owned in common and runs across all six cities, from Pennylijn Station in New Swan to the ferry terminals. Every vehicle on the road is electric: no vehicle burning a fossil fuel may be registered or driven (Article 74).
The last petrol car on the island was handed in at Rigobert in 2020. It is in the National Collection.
Page last reviewed: 29 October 2029