Climate Tasmania

The world’s oil establishment has at last acknowledged the reality of peak oil. Now we have to work out what to do about it, and it won’t be easy. [24 May 2011 | Peter Boyer]
How are we travelling? Well, not far ahead — perhaps within a couple of years — and in the absence of [...]

Paper given at Climate Action Hobart forum, “Tasmania’s Energy Future” [Peter Boyer | 30 March 2011]
Half a century ago, a seminar about Tasmania’s energy future would have been a pretty predictable affair. Eric Reece [Premier through the 1960s], Alan Knight [long-serving head of Tasmania’s Hydro-Electric Commission] or one of any number of white-shirted functionaries, most [...]

The Hobart launch of the Beyond Zero Emissions energy plan last night got many more people than organisers had bargained for. If only the interest could extend to State Parliament. [12 November 2010 | Peter Boyer]
On a humid Thursday evening (11 November) in Hobart, Climate Action Hobart hosted two key people behind the much-talked-about Beyond Zero Emissions [...]