Oil industry icon Matt Simmons became a household name during the BP oil spill crisis, partly because of his criticism of BP and their handling the worst oil spill in US history.
Simmons, 67, was found dead in his home in Maine on August 8, 2010. The medical examiner’s office is unclear about whether he had drowned in his tub after suffering a heart attack, or died from a heart attack while drowning.
Before his unexpected death, Simmons had become a whistle blower against BP and the US government. He used his oil industry and government connections to reveal information about the BP oil spill disaster that he claimed were deliberately hidden from the public.
The confusion surrounding the exact cause of his recent death has sparked reports that he was assassinated by either the CIA or BP.
Current news reports, Simmons “blew the whistle on several lies BP and Government where telling to the public.”
In the early days of the Gulf oil spill disaster, Simmons said claims that only 5,000 barrels of oil were leaking "were preposterous.” Simmons said, “A minimum of 120,000 barrels of oil per leaking into the Gulf.”
As it turns out, he was right.
Simmons also said there were leaks 5 to 7 miles away from the damaged Deepwater Horizon well, and that huge underwater plumes, creating dead zones, covered up to 40% of the Gulf of Mexico.
Right again. Both claims were later confirmed by NOAA.
More recently, after BP claimed they had capped the leaking well, Simmons stood by his earlier statements that the well being shown the public is a fake and BP has a second well leaking in the Gulf.”
“Certainly the claims being made by Matt Simmons could have been deemed as a threat to National Security…and just may have earned him a place on the CIA kill list," according to Current. "Both the United States Government and Great Britain consider BP as critical to national security, as BP supplies 80% of the US Military’s oil and BP pays millions of Government pensions in the US and Great Britain.”
Some people believe Simmons was off base with his claims of a BP and US government cover-up of the true scope of the Gulf oil spill disaster. Others say he was right on target. Whichever is true, the circumstances surrounding his premature death may only lead to more questions than answers.
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Oh dear. Are you guys famous for fact-checking?
Go and have a look at the Oil Drum website, for starters, to see what happens when facts meet conspiracy theories. They're all out to get you, aren't they?
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you.
Don't tug on Supermans cape
No known technology can cap 100,000 psi. FACT!!!
Open your eyes and listen to what your heart and mind is telling you. If that's at all possible?
If you can not see,,, don't look
Matt Simmons was a fall-down drunk who suffered from dementia in his final years. His former partners at the investment bank he founded distanced themselves as much as possible from him. Several intervention attempts were made, to no avail. Nobody talks about this because nobody wants to tarnish his family's reputation, but in Houston it is well known that Matt disappeared from the realm of credibility years ago. The networks realized his problems after they'd already broadcast him, which is why you never saw more of him after the couple of weeks when he made the media rounds. His death was tragic not because of a conspiracy, but because he was a man suffering from acute alcoholism who had lost touch with the people and things that meant the most to him. And with them, all sense of reality.
He was very coherent and convincing when I watched and listened to him on television and radio. Everything he told is has been proven TRUE. He was damaging to BP's reputation, a company who went to desperate lenghts to doctor video images , create no-fly zones make it a felony and a $40.000 fine to get within 65 feet of their operations. If he was a drunk, even that fact didn't save his life. He was too believable and he had to go. Three weeks before he was killed, I told my friend that I was worried they were going to kill him. I said to her, "They're not going to let him live. He's too much of a liability." No, it mattered very much to BP that Matthew Simmons was
calling them out on their lies. We live in a corporate fascisist state.
I like Matt Simmons have to much of a conscience too just sit aside and watch as so many have heard nothing about what is in store for us. To many people are scared and can not handle the truth. I deal with it often where unfortunately the people I try to educate and inform of the potential bridge out ahead get the deer caught in the head lights look and would rather stick there heads in the sand. Matt Simmons without a doubt was shunned by his peers much like Hubbard. I will continue to respect Matt Simmons for his conviction and courage to go against the machine that we have become so dependent upon.
we all die, soon AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!
That he was an alcoholic, we can see it. But it does not change anything to a conspiracy theory.
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