Hughes quoted at Bloomberg on fracking
October 10, 2013
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this article which questions the shale boom. David Hughes wrote the PCI report Drill Baby Drill: Can Unconventional Fuels Usher in a New Era of Energy Abundance.
From the article:
Whether current production can hold up is the subject of debate. David Hughes, a geoscientist and president of Global Sustainability Research, has examined the life span of shale wells. “The Red Queen syndrome just gets worse and worse and worse,” he says. “The higher production goes, the more wells you need to offset the decline.”