Cold, Hungry and in the Dark: Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth

By Bill Powers and Art Berman

Author has been publishing investment research on the oil and gas industry since 2002

An industry insider lays out the facts, points fingers and names names in this expose on the truth about America's natural gas supply.

The bursting of the gas bubble will make Enron look stealing lunch money

The author draws a clear parallel between this looming gas bubble and the housing bubble.

Author is the editor of Powers Energy Investor and previously the editor of the Canadian Energy Viewpoint and US Energy Investor

Author’s work was cited in a June 25, 2011 article in the New York Times “Insiders Sound Alarm Amid Natural Gas Rush” and in Time Magazine

Cold, Hungry and in the Dark gives an insider’s understanding of the oil and gas industry and exposes the truth about the potential of shale gas and shatters the 100-year-supply myth

Little has been published on this topic to date

• Language: English
• Publisher: New Society Publishers
• Release date: Jun 14, 2013
• ISBN: 9781550925289

Bill Powers

William Powers is the author of two critically acclaimed books. His Liberia memoir, Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge (2005) received a Publishers Weekly starred review and Whispering in the Giant's Ear: A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization (2006) has been featured on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross and in Newsweek. For over a decade Powers has led development aid and conservation initiatives in Latin America, Africa, and Washington DC. From 2002 to 2004 he managed the socioeconomic components of a project in the Bolivian Amazon that won a prize from Harvard's JFK School of Government. His essays on global issues have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, The Sun, and the International Herald Tribune, and have been syndicated to three hundred newspapers around the world. He has appeared on NPR's Living on Earth, Fresh Air, The Leonard Lopate Show, West Coast Live, Left Jab, and World Vision Report, as well as on local public television stations and Book TV. Powers is an increasingly active speaker at think tanks, policy gatherings, and writers' conferences (he is booked to present at numerous conferences in 2009). He has worked at the World Bank and Conservation International, and holds degrees from Brown and Georgetown. He lives part-time in New York City. His website is www.williampowersbooks.com.