The Unintended Impacts of Natural Gas on Food & Transportation: Web chat with David Hughes, Richard Gilbert and Michael Bomford

By Staff, originally published by Energy Bulletin

June 15, 2011

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Click below to catch up on our latest webchat with PCI Fellows David Hughes & Michael Bomford, and PCI Adviser Richard Gilbert.

More about Natural Gas…
Image Removed On May 12th Post Carbon Institute released a groundbreaking report Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century? by David Hughes. The report has already been downloaded more than 10,000 times.

A supplement to the report provides additional background on the impacts of natural gas on Public Health Agriculture & Transportation.

 

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David Hughes is a geoscientist who has studied the energy resources of Canada for nearly four decades, including 32 years with the Geological Survey of Canada as a scientist and research manager…Read more

 

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Michael Bomford is a research scientist and extension specialist at Kentucky State University, and an adjunct faculty member in the University of Kentucky Department of Horticulture…Read more

 

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Richard Gilbert is a Toronto-based consultant who focuses on transport and energy issues, with public- and private-sector clients in North America, Europe, and Asia…Read more

 

 

Staff

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