ACT Peak Oil

Community radio station 2XX has made available Richard Heinberg's talk from September 21:

http://fuzzylogicon2xx.podbean.com/2012/09/23/the-end-of-growth/

ACT Peak Oil is pleased to announce acclaimed author and Peak Oil expert Richard Heinberg will be in Canberra to speak at a local event on Friday September 21 at ANU Manning Clark Theatre 1, 7pm
Richard Heinberg is touring Australia as a guest of Sustainable Population Australia and sustainable population activist Dick Smith. The Canberra leg of his tour is cosponsored by ACT Peak Oil, The Australia Institute, Nature and Society Forum and See-Change.
UPDATE: Tour itinerary available

ACT Peak Oil advocates changes to government policy to prepare for Peak Oil.
Please click here for our policy statement.

Monday 13 February, 7:00 - 9:00pm - Nicole Foss: Preparing the nation, your community and family for peak oil and deflation in the coming economic environment.

CSIRO Discovery Centre, Clunies Ross Street, Acton (turn up the hill at the roundabout in Clunies Ross Street)

The Canberra Times published the following letter from ACT Peak Oil President Jenny Goldie on January 3:

CLIMATE OF DOOM

As one who tries to inform people about the implications of peak oil, I was infuriated by being lumped with such ''apocalypse-predicting subcultures'' as Christians who anticipate an imminent day of rapture when all non-believers will perish, and interpreters of the Mayan calendar who are convinced the world will end on December 31, 2012 (''Apocalypse tomorrow'', Panorama, December 31, p12).

The Canberra Times published the following letter from ACT Peak Oil President Jenny Goldie on November 10:

There is much to applaud in Dr Paul Mees' position on the ACT draft transport plan (Car-dependent disaster, CT, Nov 7). We do indeed need to redirect money away from the private car to public transport and more cycleways.

The Canberra Times published the following letter from ACT Peak Oil President Jenny Goldie on March 2.

UPDATE: click through for summary of talk.

ACT Peak Oil invites you to a public meeting with Professor Kjell Aleklett, International President, Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO), Professor in Physics at the Global Energy Systems Group, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Peak Oil - an end to economic growth?

5.30 for 6pm (refreshments served)
Monday 13 December 2010

Reception room
Legislative Assembly
London Circuit, Canberra
Hosted by Shane Rattenbury MLA

An editorial opinion from ACT Peak Oil Vice President Jenny Goldie published in The Canberra Times.