Matt Simmons- DEAD

[Spectrism]

http://www.wlbz2.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=123586&catid=3



NORTH HAVEN, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - The Knox County Sheriff's Department says Matthew Simmons, the founder of the Ocean Energy Institute, drowned at his house on North Haven late Sunday night.

Simmons was a leading investment banker for the energy industry and had recently retired to work full time on the new Ocean Energy Institute.

He was a leading proponent of offshore wind power and had started raising money to develop and build offshore turbines.

He and his family had also bought and rebuilt the Old Strand Theater in downtown Rockland.


Hmmmmm... I wonder if he shot himself twice in the back of the head too.

[General of Darkness]

I was about the post the same story. Seems very "timely" so to speak.

EDIT - Matt was bringing the lies of BP to the surface.

http://www.examiner.com/x-10438-Human-Rights-Examiner~y2010m7d16-Censored-Gulf-news-Heavy-toll-on-human-life-predicted-Plug-sham-Oil-whistleblower

Here's a snip.



At a Camden, Maine meeting, attendees heard Matthew Simmons explain how BP knowingly failed to respond appropriately and then lied; how TV participated in a massive psyop helping BP; and how the worst on human health is yet to come according to Christine Parrish in The Free Press.

"There is no way BP would not know they were misleading everyone," said Simmons.

"They would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind and they're not. These are smart guys."

He told MNSBC today that BP is lying because it it acknowledges the truth, "they’ll go to jail." (See Yotube below)

Simmons has been blowing the whistle on the oil giant since shortly after its explosion. He experienced the same heavy-handed bullying all whistleblowers do.

A standard operating procedure that corporate hired thugs use is the discrediting of truth-espousing leaders providing information in the best interest of the public. The media is a common tool for achieving this. For weeks, Simmons has faced dozens if not hundreds of media reports naming him, "Dr. Doom."

[DMac]

WOW

[Spectrism]

Yesterday- I just watched that movie "There Will Be Blood". That was a dreary look into human nature. It was not uplifting. Same feeling I get thinking about this news.

[the riot act]

As much as I thought the guy had lost his mind in the last 4 months, I am sad to hear this report.
CNBC says it was a heart attack, and so the CT's will run with it.

RIP Matt. :(

[Spectrism]

What a coincidence- fighting for your life in water could bring on a heart attack.

One day the truth will be told.

[Silver Rocket Bitches!]

So the biggest, most outspoken critic of BP's story ends up dead. The guy whose name comes up when you search for BP oil spill lies.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE KEEP MOVING.

RIP.

http://www.youtube.com/v/scl2dgK_-Nw&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1

[Still Barbaro]

R.I.P. Matt Simmons.

[the riot act]

In this report (http://www.wlbz2.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=123586&catid=3) it says he drowned.


NORTH HAVEN, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - The Knox County Sheriff's Department says Matthew Simmons, the founder of the Ocean Energy Institute, drowned at his house on North Haven late Sunday night.

Simmons was a leading investment banker for the energy industry and had recently retired to work full time on the new Ocean Energy Institute.

He was a leading proponent of offshore wind power and had started raising money to develop and build offshore turbines.

He and his family had also bought and rebuilt the Old Strand Theater in downtown Rockland.

EDIT: A more complete story here (http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/Energy-expert-Simmons-dies-in-North-Haven.html)

[mamboni]

Yesterday- I just watched that movie "There Will Be Blood". That was a dreary look into human nature. It was not uplifting. Same feeling I get thinking about this news.

Great flick - but very very dark. There should be a warning label on the package: Do Not Watch if Depressed or Attempting to Quit Smoking. :oo-->

[MarchHare]

Rest in Peace :'(

[Gknowmx]

Wow, I take a long weekend and this is the news on Monday. I am stunned. I really enjoyed Matt's perspectives. I looked forward to hearing him on Financial Sense News.

[keehah]

This should save BP billions. He kept talking about what was going wrong weeks before BP and its US agents would admit it.

RIP Matt.

He was about the only CFR guy I respected.

BP's Feast of Moloch continues!

[gunDriller]

Wow, I take a long weekend and this is the news on Monday. I am stunned. I really enjoyed Matt's perspectives. I looked forward to hearing him on Financial Sense News.


me too. i had been thinking about sending my resume to him so i could work as an engineer on his big wind-farm project.

this is incredibly convenient for BP and their co-criminals.

one of the things that has struck me, starting with an interview he did about 8 months ago, was i had never seen him looking so tired or sounding so worried. and that was before the oil spill, he was worried about the energy train-wrecks in our future. not for himself - he was a billionaire.

this could be an old guy succumbing to stress, or it could be foul play. too early to tell.

CFR member or not, he was definitely "one of the good guys".

Matt, your human incarnation will be missed.

[Spectrism]

Those people who had contact with him will be watching over their shoulders now and trying to avoid accidents.

I think the real oil disaster has not yet been seen. I don't know when it will surface, but the true devastation is still ahead of us. Just the quick change of the chorus to "all clear" tells me who has been lying about this.

[jaybone]

Holy crap! I was just listening to him on FSN last weekend wondering if what he was saying was true or disinfo since he is CFR.
Gotta think he was on to something now, the timing is just too suspect.

RIP Matt,
I'm going to go order some more respirator cartridges and freeze dried food now.

[the riot act]

To be totally honest with everyone, this comment (http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6827#comment-698042) made by "Unconformity" at The Oil Drum says what I feel better than I could have expressed it.

[k-os]

Murder.

I think I need to revisit all that Matt was raging about. Something he said struck a nerve.

[Awoke]

To be totally honest with everyone, this comment (http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6827#comment-698042) made by "Unconformity" at The Oil Drum says what I feel better than I could have expressed it.



Allow me to post it here for you.




Simmons was a public figure who sought the limelight and the financial enrichment that it brought him. Back in the 70s, he identified a financial opportunity in the volatile environment of global oil speculation and has been running his roadshow ever since, figuring more and newer ways to make money -- remember he was an INVESTMENT BANKER -- as the years and decades progressed. Why would he have done such a thing? Out of care and concern for his fellow man? To help his fellow humans survive the impending peak oil event? I'm not naive enough to believe that for a second and neither should anyone else. His bizarre and fictional statements of the past several months, transparent attempts to influence events to his financial enrichment, call into question his entire life's canon of storytelling and fact-bending. (Reminiscent of the recent efforts on this forum of a certain vonaltendorf, whose abilities are laughably amateurish and clumsy when compared to those of The Master of the Art, Matt Simmons.) Simmons should be recognizeded for his brazen and fearless manipulation of the psychologies, thought streams and financial behaviors of millions of people over the years.

On a lighter note, what do you call a deceased investment banker?
A: A good start!

[Libertytree]

He might have drowned...with a little help.

He never wavered in his assertions even under the full weight of those in the oil community and took a whole lot of sh!t in the process, his convictions seemed to outweigh any want or need from those whom were his peers.

His death is (un)timely to say the least!!!

[ximmy]

At least BP is holding true to "their" word and cleaning up their mess...

[Silver Shield]

Another one for the Suicided file...

[undgrd]

To be totally honest with everyone, this comment (http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6827#comment-698042) made by "Unconformity" at The Oil Drum says what I feel better than I could have expressed it.




I find this interesting.

[DMac]

A heart attack while in the hot tub
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/Energy-expert-Simmons-dies-in-North-Haven.html

[Steal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS4l2REd2SY&playnext=1&videos=GEc26uFPR8c&feature=sub

[the riot act]

To be totally honest with everyone, this comment (http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6827#comment-698042) made by "Unconformity" at The Oil Drum says what I feel better than I could have expressed it.




I find this interesting.


;D ;D Naww, I'm username "useless" over there (go ahead and look it up).. But nice implication though.

[Phoenix]

100% certainty he was LIQUIDATED.

[the riot act]

100% certainty he was LIQUIDATED.


Nah, the shapeshifting alien in residence inside Simmons' body simply left it for another host. Wanna guess who? ;D

[Phoenix]

To be totally honest with everyone, this comment (http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6827#comment-698042) made by "Unconformity" at The Oil Drum says what I feel better than I could have expressed it.




I find this interesting.


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3288/2961175776_b341ca0fc5.jpg

[the riot act]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3288/2961175776_b341ca0fc5.jpg


I'm bored, what can I say.

:whistle

[keehah]

How Psychopaths View Their World (http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath3.htm)

On the flip side, the psychopath also often paints a picture of himself as the downcast anti-hero (his "own worst enemy type") and some like to see themselves as lone-wolves. The psychopath may even claim he is sensitive and profound, but inside he is nothing but emptiness and greed. Whether or not the psychopath is aware of his behaviour is something that is often debated. I do believe that psychopaths usually know exactly what they are doing, although others suggest that psychopaths are "born, not made."
Eric Cartman is a Socio-Psychopath. (http://sablecofrin.com/2010/01/22/eric-cartman-is-a-socio-psychopath/)

Sociopaths are most popularly associated with psychopaths, murderers, and more specifically, serial killers. The main characteristic is defined as a “lack of empathy”. Other description include: artificial charm, gross self-righteousness, pathological lying; incapability of real emotion—or love—and the Freudian “Social Me.” Erratic behavior, uncontrollable desires, impulsive actions, all signs as well.

...And this, is why we love him.

[Serpo]

Matthew R. Simmons, an energy investment banker who was a leading proponent of the “peak oil” theory that claims the Earth is running out of crude, died yesterday. He was 67.

The former chairman of Simmons & Co. International “passed away suddenly,” according to an e-mailed statement today from the Ocean Energy Institute, which Simmons started in 2007 to explore opportunities for harvesting energy from the seas. He is survived by his wife, Ellen, and their five daughters.

Simmons started Houston-based Simmons & Co. in May 1974 with a focus on the oil-services industry, according to the company’s website. The firm expanded to offer research, institutional sales and investment banking in the energy industry. Simmons promoted the idea that world oil reserves are peaking, and he explored the implications in a 2005 book called “Twilight in the Desert.”

“He was somebody that was very comfortable challenging conventional wisdom, someone that thought beyond the near term and was a very good analyst in terms of identifying big trends,” said Dan Pickering, who worked at Simmons & Co. from 1996 to 2004 and is now co-president of the Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. investment bank in Houston.

Emergency medical workers responded to a possible drowning a little before 10 p.m. local time yesterday, said John Dietter, a crew chief for North Haven, Maine. He declined to comment on the cause of Simmons’s death. The Knox County sheriff’s office in Maine didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Engineering Reports Used

On a tour of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry in 2003, Simmons was inspired to estimate the world’s largest oil reserves, and from research that included poring through neglected engineering data, determined that the country was close to or nearing peak output, Peter Maass wrote in his book, “Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil.”

“He built his own energy firm and, having done that successfully, used his knowledge of the industry to challenge one of its biggest accepted truths -- that there are nearly unlimited quantities of oil in the world,” Maass said today in an e-mail.

Demand for energy has become a “runwaway train that cannot be easily slowed or reversed,” Simmons said in a slide presentation in May at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. “We are in early stages of a global train wreck when demand outstrips supply and shortages begin,” according to the slides on the website for the Ocean Energy Institute.

‘Tight Supply’ Warning

Simmons said in 2008 that oil was more likely to hit $200 per barrel than drop to $50 over the next six months because supply wasn’t meeting demand.

Oil touched a record $147.27 a barrel in July 2008 and closed that year at $44.60 in New York futures trading.

“We have unbelievably tight supply,” Simmons said July 16, 2008, in a Bloomberg Television interview. “We have a lot of gasoline stations closing because they cannot afford to be in business.”

Pickering said Simmons was sometimes intentionally provocative because he wanted people to think beyond what is happening today or this year. He said the industry will miss Simmons pushing, even if his thoughts weren’t accepted by all.

“As much as anyone he brought the whole idea of peak oil into the public consciousness,” said Arthur Berman, a geologist who lives near Houston and writes for the Oil Drum energy website.

Retired in June

Berman said he shared Simmons’s views on peak oil. Simmons did have “some peculiar ideas” on the BP Plc spill such as the size of the disaster, Berman said, and he’d hoped to talk with Simmons about the reasons for some of his thoughts on the disaster.

Simmons was a frequent critic of BP’s efforts to stanch its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, suggesting at one point that the best option would be to detonate a small nuclear bomb undersea to kill the well.

On June 16, Simmons announced his retirement as chairman emeritus from Simmons & Co. so he could focus on the Ocean Energy Institute. His departure came after years of growth. By the end of 1981, Simmons & Co. had a staff of 13. About 17 years later, the company opened its first office outside Houston, in Aberdeen, Scotland.

“We are deeply saddened by the unexpected loss of a true visionary and friend,” Michael E. Frazier, chief executive officer of Simmons & Co., said today in a statement. “As a pivotal figure in the lives of many of our employees, and countless others across the energy industry, Matt will be sorely missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time.”

Wind Power

Simmons founded the Ocean Energy Institute as a think tank and venture-capital fund for U.S. offshore renewable energy, including wind-powered energy, according to that group’s website.

“His group really had some excellent and substantial ambitions,” Ethan Zindler, an analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance in Washington D.C., said today in a telephone interview. “This group was poised to make an impact, but was essentially still just starting to get off the ground.”



http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-09/matthew-simmons-investment-banker-peak-oil-theory-advocate-dies-at-67.html

[Serpo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhPvQot4o8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbry0D2RFbQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDO4KNm1GPM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fobsqXyz1rQ

[oldmansmith]

Sorry to be a poop, but could you summarize the videos "Matt Simmons was Right" for those of us who still live out in beautiful dial-up land and cannot download videos?

[gunDriller]

Sorry to be a poop, but could you summarize the videos "Matt Simmons was Right" for those of us who still live out in beautiful dial-up land and cannot download videos?


if you can download an *.mp3, his July interview with King World News might be relevant -

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2010/7/17_Matt_Simmons_files/Matt%20Simmons%207%3A17%3A2010.mp3

[Twisted Titan]

This should save BP billions. He kept talking about what was going wrong weeks before BP and its US agents would admit it.

RIP Matt.

He was about the only CFR guy I respected.

BP's Feast of Moloch continues!



Grieve not for him.

Any CFR hack knows the score and they rarely IF EVER "find religion".

He was just manuerving to get himself a bigger slice of the green pie and he got a little too uppity against the ruling power monger

[EE_]

opps!

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/photogalleries/bathtub/gallery/bathtub11_vzoom.jpg

[keehah]

This is a comment from the article linked as the source regarding Matt's death in the NYT:
BDN: Ocean Energy Institute founder, Bush adviser dies in N__ Haven (http://www.bangordailynews.com/story/Midcoast/Ocean-Energy-Institute-founder-Bush-adviser-drowns-in-New-Haven,150882)

Is it too much to ask for reporters and editors to proof-read their writing before it goes online or out for print?

New Haven? I believe the man died on North Haven, which is in Maine. Last I knew, New Haven was in Connecticut.

I also read that he died of a heart attack, but was found in his hot tub, so it only looked like he drowned.

Bangor Daily News Today 01:55 PM in reply
Sorry about the headline — it's been corrected.

[old steel]

First reports said heart attack and now it's drowning.

Real subtle, now he is sleeping with the fishes.

RIP Matt Simmons

[the riot act]

First reports said heart attack and now it's drowning.

Real subtle, now he is sleeping with the fishes.

RIP Matt Simmons


Well if you have a heart attack in a hot tub you will end up drowning before the HA kills ya. So it is a toss up.

Kinda know, I have had 2 of them.

On another note. He looked very flush the last time I saw him (TV). I would quickly assume high blood pressure. If so, then the hot tub at 104 degrees (normal recommended temp for one) would defiantly be a no no for him.

Hard to say. But not everyone will ever be convinced.

[old steel]

First reports said heart attack and now it's drowning.

Real subtle, now he is sleeping with the fishes.

RIP Matt Simmons


Well if you have a heart attack in a hot tub you will end up drowning before the HA kills ya. So it is a toss up.

Kinda know, I have had 2 of them.

On another note. He looked very flush the last time I saw him (TV). I would quickly assume high blood pressure. If so, then the hot tub at 104 degrees (normal recommended temp for one) would defiantly be a no no for him.

Hard to say. But not everyone will ever be convinced.



Pure coincidence that he would die of natural causes one month after telling the real story about what was happening in the gulf.

Also pure coincidence that people who crossed the Clintons died at the rate of one per month.

Nothing to see here move along now ..

[the riot act]

Pure coincidence that he would die of natural causes one month after telling the real story about what was happening in the gulf.

Also pure coincidence that people who crossed the Clintons died at the rate of one per month.

Nothing to see here move along now ..


old steel I am open to anyone who can produce searchable resources that he was telling the real truth.

I operate on logic not hyperbole, and will gladly admit to being wrong. But as of today I stand by what I posted above. Help me change my mind.

[ximmy]

Anybody hear anymore details on how BP terminated him... laced his hottub with oil so he couldn't climb out??? Was the hitman called a dispersing agent...

[Steal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2iLjRyr65M&playnext=1&videos=SFB0pwpgR8Y&feature=bulletin

[PatColo]

FSN interview with Puplava from 7/31

Energy 'Pearl Harbor' or Collapse? (http://financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour/big-picture/2010/07/31/02/matthew-simmons-oliver-inderwildi-robert-hirsch/energy-pearl-harbor)

[EE_]

Shame this news isn't even a blip in the MSM

[Twisted Titan]

Shame this news isn't even a blip in the MSM



And praytell why is that ???

Sing it with me now.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxuTaGJlTQ0&feature=related

[lapis]

I don't know what to think. These kind of deaths seem awfully convenient for certain influential groups.

And coincidentally, after reading about his death, I saw the movie "Michael Clayton." I wonder if Matt got the same assassination treatment as one of the main characters:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1_yL9dZ8uk




On another note. He looked very flush the last time I saw him (TV). I would quickly assume high blood pressure. If so, then the hot tub at 104 degrees (normal recommended temp for one) would defiantly be a no no for him.

Hard to say. But not everyone will ever be convinced.

[PatColo]

Matt Simmons: “It was painful as can be” to be only insider speaking out (http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/matt-simmons-it-was-painful-as-can-be-to-be-only-insider-speaking-out)

In one of his final interviews, Matt Simmons said, “It was painful as can be… to be the only person in the industry that was willing to speak out.”

7 seconds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK-4gzw1nGs

I wish that floridaoilspilllaw story offered more info, like which interview & when. I think it might be the Puplava interview I posted above, but I don't feel like listening to the whole thing again just to verify. The clip speaks for itself.

[JDRock]

this is incredibly convenient for BP and their co-criminals.

[/quote]


too convienient imo....

[PatColo]

Oil Disaster - The late Matt Simmons was right - (proof of 2 BP wells, coverup)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhPvQot4o8