This Monday, Matt Simmons is reported dead in this article in the Bangor Maine Daily News. Best known for his accurately predictive book on the decline of Saudi oil production, “Twilight in the Desert,” more recently Matt Simmons had been speaking out about evidence that the oil blow-out of BP’s Macondo well (the “Deepwater Horizon”–actually the name of the drilling rig) was larger with more damage to the well itself, and with more extensive plumes, than generally acknowledged.
(Thanks, Kevin, of Cryptogon, for catching this.)
The initial report was that Matt Simmons died of a heart attack, but already that story has been discarded. Given that it was a drowning, and given the context of Simmons speaking out against BP statements and lies (that is, some of BP’s statements, going right back to the start of the blow-out, are already known to be lies), and given that other people have already been threatened into silence by BP, the probability percentage that this is NOT murder drops into the single digits.
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I hope that there’s thorough investigation.
You don’t suppose this interview about 3 weeks ago on KingWorldNews had anything to do with his demise?
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Simmons was a total oil insider. As an oil industry banker, he had to know (and did know) not only finance, but the practical details of oil technology and oil geology. And of course, he was fully aware of the theory and evidence of oil depletion and the concept of Peak Oil (production).
Worth keeping in mind as industry shills now try to repaint him a a clueless MBA-type bean-counter.