Hughes on “risky business” of shale gas at Scientific American
June 23, 2014
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes and author of the PCI report Drill Baby Drill? was quoted in this article about natural gas prospects in the US.
From the article:
Shale gas now accounts for half of all U.S. production, according to EIA statistics—a milestone that many studies expected wouldn’t be reached until the mid-2020s or later. “Assuming that technology will allow ever more shale gas production at low prices—and betting energy policy and the future energy security of the country on it—is risky business,” says geologist David Hughes, who retired from the Canadian Geological Survey and is now doing assessments of shale gas and oil for the nonprofit Post Carbon Institute, a California-based environmental think tank…