Community action is the way forward on these issues. We must all work together, make the necessary changes …

A recent study has found Nambour to be relatively protected from the pain of escalating fuel prices …

A new CSIRO report on Australia’s future fuel challenges should prompt Federal and State governments to massively invest in public transport …

This is not the time to build new freeways and tunnels to airports, which may even be quasi abandoned within five years as airlines all over the world go belly up …

THE Queensland Government was warned of the dire consequences of peak oil in a report by the now Minister for Sustainability Andrew McNamara published in October last year. So what has the Bligh Government done since his special taskforce predicted that tourism could be devastated by rising fuel prices as aviation and motoring costs increase? Already those predictions are starting to become reality, with airlines the first to suffer and Qantas and Jetstar announcing cuts to schedules

Ann White provides some facts on oil and consumption. “Peak oil represents the most serious and immediate challenge to our prosperity and security…”