As pointed out by a number of readers, gondolas work well in other places including interstate and overseas, however, the gondolas are generally dwarfed by the size of their location and they often travel a bidirectional path, not a circuit.

The chairlift is relative to the size of the space it travels and any new proposal needs to ensure the size of the structure is proportional to this location and not the mountainous regions found elsewhere.

AARON de Witt (The Examiner, December 8) claims global emissions have risen and yet the number of people in poverty has dropped by three quarters.

Implying rising emissions are necessary to continue to do this. The change in poverty is extremely contested territory.

The World Bank uses incomes below U$1.90 for the definition of extreme poverty.

Therefore extreme poverty is seen to have fallen. If, on the other hand, you take a much more realistic figure of $8 a day to define poverty, the number in poverty has risen from 2.2 billion in 1981 to 3.5 billion in 2014 (about $U6.70 is required for basic nutrition). Perhaps emissions caused the rise?

The rest of his letter is misconceived.

Fairly obviously countries with low energy consumption and no legacy of and sunk costs in obsolete coal can progress very quickly in renewables given the political will.

Just as many people adopted mobile technology without going through the stage of fixed-line phones.

Emissions are not a precondition for progress and will in the future be a hindrance.

A TIME of development at any cost.

It was the Hydro and a despotic Labor government of the time, that ruined the Tamar Estuary, and South Esk River.

The Tasmanian Hydro should be required to fix the problem, why should the taxpayer?

The simplest way is to close the Trevallyn Power Station.

If the Hydro can afford to sell power to Victoria, they can afford to close Trevallyn.

Bell Bay Aluminium Works has never been a success, just gave us George Town and it's ongoing social problems (Sorry George Town).

With a decent flow of water through the Gorge and a clean Tamar River tourism will soon make up for the cost of restoring the system. Launceston should not take no for an answer.

It is hard to imagine anywhere else, would tolerate the ongoing vandalism.

First Nation would soon fix.

HOW reassuring that "the state government has consistently held to the view that no level of drug-taking is acceptable".

Perhaps someone from the government can explain the utter hypocrisy of opposing pill testing at festivals, while the sale of ice pipes in Tasmania is still legal, with action to reverse this only being initiated very recently?

What an appalling double standard.