Update 5:
Simmon’s opinions about the Gulf Oil spill seem, in retrospect, to have been discredited by events and reports that appear to show that the spill was far, far less of a disaster than imagined. That being the case, what would be a cogent thesis that would explain what’s been going on so far? (more to come)
Note: We’ve never bought the “peak oil” thesis, at least not in its black-and-white incarnation (“The world is running completely out of oil”). We’ve always subscribed to some version of the abiotic theory, since we read about it in a newsletter put out by respected fund manager Bill Miller (of Legg Mason).
Update 4:
This blog post suggesting some kind of a “hit” on Simmons is showing up on the first page of a Google search for “Matt Simmons death,” so, to all appearances, it’s not conspiracy-mongering per se that’s the problem for the powers-that-be (PTB).
It’s who mongers a given conspiracy. Yours truly is, apparently, not “licensed to spill” (sigh)….
Anyway, the post suggests that Simmons might have become persona non grata for whistle-blowing on the BP story. However, if you read through commentary about Simmon’s public pronouncements, knowledgeable insiders seem to think he was a panic-monger with a vested interest in what he said, not a whistle-blower. His public statements were intended to bolster stock positions he held. He was, after all, a friend of the Hunt brothers – famous for having tried to corner the silver market…
Of course, there’s no reason Simmons couldn’t be a panic-monger who turned into a whistle-blower…. or some variant thereof.
So, while I think his death certainly falls under the category of “suspicious,” what the reasons are and who the perpetrators might be are questions that are a bit more complicated than one would first think. Someone who was an adviser to George Bush, did work for Halliburton (which, along with Transocean and BP, was involved in the Macondo well), “exposed” the Saudis about the depletion of their oil stocks, put a lot of money into alternative energy businesses that stood to profit from the demise of the oil industry, pushed the “peak oil” thesis, tried to short BP stock to a dollar without disclosing his position publicly, and recently pronounced the oil business dead….is likely to have made more than one enemy.
Update 3:
Died in his hot tub from drowning, with heart disease as the contributing factor. That’s the verdict of of the autopsy on Monday.
“Matthew Simmons’ body was found Sunday night in his hot tub, investigators said. An autopsy by the state medical examiner’s office concluded Monday that he died from accidental drowning with heart disease as a contributing factor”
Update 2:
One report says that the cause of death is not confirmed:
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*Coincidentally, when this news came over PR wire, I was blogging about remote brain-sensing and researching microwave-induced heart attacks (a technology that’s been around for 30 years).
(This train of thought was set off by a link about electronic surveillance and induced illness in the comments section to a recent post about GPS surveillance).
“Neurological research has found that the brain has specific frequencies for each voluntary movement called preparatory sets. When you pick up an object, there is a specific preparatory set for this action. By firing at your chest a microwave beam containing the ELF signals given off by the heart, this organ can be put into a chaotic state, the so called heart attack. In this way, high profile leaders of political parties, who are prone to heart attacks, can be killed off -before they cause any trouble. Neil Kinnock’s Labour government was allegedly cheated out of an election victory by postal vote rigging in twenty key marginal seats. When a new even more electable Labour leader was found, it is rumoured that John Smith, the then Labour leader, was prompted to have a fatal heart attack, while walking in the country with his family, by means of a concealed microwave device which operated on the Vagus nerve to bring about a massive heart attack. Since MI5 have a long history of naked hatred toward the Labour Party, there may be some truth in the above, though no hard evidence has yet been found.”
More here about microwave weapons at The Daily Mail.
I’m not suggesting that this is what happened with Simmons. I’m simply pointing out the coincidence that I was researching microwave-induced heart attacks this morning, and had been discussing Matt Simmons and whether he was the source of the story about a massive volcano of oil under Macondo…
And then we get this news.
Simmons *died of a heart attack in a hot tub at his home in Maine,” according to Deal Journal, which also adds this:
“Simmons was back in the limelight this spring when BP oil’s rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. He went out on a limb (his critics say too far out) by predicting in June that the spill would cause BP to go bankrupt and that “if a hurricane comes and blows this to shore, it could paint the Gulf Coast black.”
Business Insider notes that Simmons also didn’t think BP’s cap was sufficient:
“What we don’t know anything about is the open hole which is caused by the drill bit when it tossed the blow-out preventer way out of the hole…and 120,000 minimum of toxic poison has now covered the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. So what they’re talking about is the biggest environmental cover-up ever. And they knew that that well, that riser, would finally deplete. And then they could say it’s over. And unfortunately, we now have killed the Gulf of Mexico.” (comment, July 21, cited in BI)
I just noticed that my blog post, which was on page one of a Google search of “Matt Simmons dies,” above Zerohedge, has suddenly disappeared in about five seconds flat…not to be seen for the first several pages (not in the first 15)…could it get buried that deep that fast? Maybe a lot of people jumped on it….
(I just checked and Matt Simmon’s death is the 14th most searched string on google…)
ORIGINAL POST
Not to get all conspiratorial, but we were just discussing Matt Simmons, the energy expert and peak-oil alarmist (or realist, depending on where you stand) on The Daily Bell forum, last Saturday.
Simmons has been accused by some of doom-mongering over the BP oil spill:
“Simmons also says that as the leak has no casing, a relief well will not work, and the only possible resolution is, as he said previously, to use a small nuclear explosion to convert the rock to glass. Simmons concludes that as punishment for BP’s arrogance and stupidity the government “will take all their cash.”
I was wondering if he was the source for one of Pastor Lindsay Williams’ more infamous statements on Alex Jones.…that the Maconda well had tapped into something much bigger, like a volcano of oil…That was just a couple of days ago.
Now comes news that Simmons, aged 67, just died from a heart attack in his pool.