Rural Australia Without Petroleum?

FREE PUBLIC FORUM: ALL WELCOME

Rural Australia without petroleum?

CSU's Institute for Land, Water and Society and the E.H Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation will host a public forum on:

"The implications of diminishing international supplies of petroleum and the possibilities for biofuels industries in rural Australia."

Speakers include:

• Professor Peter Sinclair, environmental sociologist and oil industry analyst, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
• Dr Barrie May, biofuel researcher from CSIRO and author of "Biofuels in Australia: Issues and Prospects"

The forum will ask questions including:

• How can rural communities adapt to increasing fuel costs and the potential for biofuel production?
• How will a biofuel industry affect investment, employment and the growth/decline of rural communities?
• Will transportation have to change and if so, in what ways?

WEDNESDAY, 12 MARCH, 2008

Wagga Wagga City Council Meeting Room
Cnr Baylis & Morrow Streets, Wagga

6pm - 7.30pm

RSVP to Kate Roberts on 6933 2680 or kroberts@csu.edu.au by 11 March