Leading Gulf of Mexico oil crime whistleblower Matthew Simmons tragically died in his Maine home Sunday night after a 3-month courageous stand against the petrochemical-military-industrial complex (PMIC) and its Gulf operation Disinformation campaign. He stood for the Gulf Coast people and the rest of humanity. Simmons was 67 years old.
Due to his high-profile exposure of lies, deceit, corruption and violence of the PMIC as its strongest critic, including calling the TV performances involving the well and capping efforts a "sham," there is speculation that Simmons' death was not a natural one. Such speculation is particularly strong among other whistleblowers and targeted individuals who know first-hand what it is like to be covertly harassed and assaulted. (See: Dupre, D. Human Rights Examiner: Targeted Individuals)
It is reported that Simmons' cause of death was drowning in his hot tub and/or heart attack, a common cause of whistleblower deaths.
Being publicly discredited for speaking truth as Simmons was is also a typical tactic applied to targets, dating back to Cointelpro early days.
As world renown expert on oil and its industry, thus knowing what the future holds for the Deep South population in terms of oil-related ill-health and suffering, Simmons advocated for evacuation after the Gulf explosion. Heading his call for evacuation soon after the explosion would have helped prevent the ongoing chemical and radiation poisoning of the thousands of children and adults now being poorly treated. It would have helped prevent the "heavy resident death toll" Simmons predicted.
Instead, no survival aid was forthcoming and media frequently bully-called Simmons "Mr. Doom."
Renwable energy vision for peace
Just as Rudolph Diesel understood power of oil and survival needs of the people, the Simmons understood oil and its impact on humanity. Both of these visionaries worked to remove power from the petrochemical-military-industrial complex and return that power back to the common man and woman through renewable energy. They both met untimely deaths.
Hundreds of scientists agree that if more communities and their leaders understood the viability of using alternative energy technology existent today and coordinated to establish it according to unique community needs and resources, the dirty, dangerous, corrupt crude oil kingpins would have less capacity to continue destroying the planet and people for their leaders' imperialist profits.
Focusing on renewable energy and needs of the people instead of focusing on the PMIC and its needs would create less need for the military. Military's never-ending supply of new high-tech weapons and war crimes would begin to cease. The U.S. could regain love and trust of people globally if the millions of Americans employed to make weapons, including weapons of mass destruction, were instead making wind and water turbines for energy, vertical farm energy centers and other safe, humane energy resources. Simmons was sponsoring such initiatives in Maine.
Of all the powerful people, from the President and First Lady to other high-level government and oil leaders watching death and destruction of the Gulf oil catastrophe, it was Simmons who established a college fund for children of the 11 oil workers killed in the Gulf explosion crime. It was his wish that this initiative be highlighted for greater support of those children otherwise forgotten and forsaken, as the PMIC - BP government has proven to do to with all the children and their parents still surviving Gulf operation poisoning.
Blowing the whistle on the PMIC Disinformation campaign's 'no oil found', 'no health problems here' and 'come swim in the Gulf waters and eat the Gulf seafood,' Simmons prompted thousands of people to research and agree with his analysis.
Only days before Simmons death, a land surveyor demonstrated with public documents that there are two exploratory wells and the one that major TV networks continually showed the public was not the one actually gushing, as Simmons has repeatedly explained. (See: Dupre, D. Breaking Gulf news: Land Surveyor proves Simmons right. TV well sham, Examiner, August 6, 2010) The following is a comment left on this Examiner site after that article:
"I tried to verify Land Surveyors information and checked the initial exploration plan. I can confirm what he [Land Surveyor] shows us in his videos. I advise everyone, who doubts this information, to read the plan for himself. Since I cannot post the direct link - google: gomr bp initial exploration plan Mississippi Canyon Block 252 (the pdf file takes some time to load). On page 8 the proposed activity is listed: Well location “A”: Start Date 04/15/2009; End Date 07/24/2009 Well location “B”: Start Date 04/15/2010; End Date 07/24/2010 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill happened on the 20th April of 2010. The coordinates for well “A” are: X: 1202,803.88' Y: 10,431,617.00' The coordinates for well “B” are: X: 1202,514.00' Y: 10,431,494.00' Countless youtube videos of the remotely operated vehicles (ROV) show, that the ROV operated much closer to well A, than to well B."
Another commenter of that same article asked, "Does anyone appreciate the full significance of these findings?"
Simmons is survived by his wife, Ellen, and their five daughters.
Although Simmons was founder and chairman emeritus of Simmons & Company International and prominent advocate of peak oil, many will remember him mainly as a brave humanitarian who worked to bring peace to earth.
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coincidence or consequence?
Have any other whistleblowers been killed. It would be difficult to believe that Matt was/is the only one.
Any videos of Matt talking about his own life in danger?
The public, including us, will probably never know, or not know for a great many years, whether this guy was murdered, or simply died of natural causes.
IMO this is probably the least important thing to be concerned with, (I'm talking as a member of the public, not as a member of this man's family, so please don't think I'm disrespecting them).
His message is what is important, he was a strong advocate for transparency in the government dealings with oil companies, and a strong advocate for renewable energy research. If the government or others, had decided to kill this man, (and I'm not suggesting this is what happened), they would have made a big mistake. While he was alive they could discredit him, now he is dead, and his death is thought to be suspicious by some, his words and deeds will be widely known.
"His message is what is important, he was a strong advocate for transparency in the government dealings with oil companies, and a strong advocate for renewable energy research. If the government or others, had decided to kill this man, (and I'm not suggesting this is what happened), they would have made a big mistake. While he was alive they could discredit him, now he is dead, and his death is thought to be suspicious by some, his words and deeds will be widely known.
Who benefits from this man's death?"
One reason I posted this article is that I think his message is worth taking a close look at (assuming that damage control hasn't already been done, and links/articles/videos on him haven't been removed/edited.
Thats the good thing about the internet Mira, there will be lots of people with information/vids/articles etc, collected and stored. Once something is on the web, its very hard to claw it back, and I would say impossible. In this case, that is a very good thing.
The thing is most people don;t go looking for the missing pieces once they go missing. Then its easy for the disinfo agents to point at these rare saved pieces and just discount them or spin the data. They can alter the data and cause it to resurface while claiming that, that is the original data, Then it comes down to one sites word against the other and the confusion and fragmentation occurs. Lots you can do to create confusion after the fact. There is much of this going on in other areas of the Conspiracy "world."
Most people are not following closely enough for them to be able to go.."ya I remember that was how the data was originally reported." A very small minority may remember it in its original form.
Perception is reality and perception is being played with by TPTB.
129589, There is an old saying, "If it seems to good to be true, it probably is", I also think this can be applied to bad things as well, "If it seems to terrible to be true, it probably is".
Over the years I've collected a great many predictions, (both good and bad), Conspiracy theories, (both good and bad, the good ones are rare though), its a sort of hobby of mine.
There is one true pattern that I have seen emerge from studying these things, is that the great bulk of the doom and destruction predictions and theories, do not happen, and are found to be based on nothing but people's imagination, and are not proven with evidence.
There are, of course, exceptions to the rule, as there are with all rules, but these exceptions are rare. The pattern is unmistakable to those that study with an open mind.
Matt Simmons made some dire predictions about this oil spill, that have not occurred, when I first read these predictions, I thought they fell nicely into the "If it seems to terrible to be true, it probably is" category. However, this in no way closed my mind to the other things that he promoted, such as renewable energies, and exposing the corruption and greed of the oil companies and government officials.
Speculation about his death doesn't help promote his message, it helps promote the agenda of those that would like it to be a planned murder, but cannot prove anything.
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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.
Did The CIA Assassinate Matt Simmons For Blowing The Whistle On The BP Gulf Oil Spill?
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Matt Simmons, a prominent oil industry expert who lately has been very outspoken about the BP Gulf Oil Spill coverup, was found dead in his home after supposedly drowning after apparently suffering from a heart attack.
But did Matt Simmons really die of a heart attack or was he assassinated?
Watch: Did The CIA Assassinate Matt Simmons For Blowing The Whistle On The BP Gulf Oil Spill Coverup?
Matt was very vocal on several nationwide news programs making claims that have led some people to question his sanity along with blowing the whistle on BP and Government on several issues.
Matt Simmons was very well connected to other oil industry insiders and top government officials in charge of regulating the oil industry.
As a result of those connections Matt has blew the whistle on several lies BP and Government where telling to the public.
Matt called the claims that only 5,000 barrels of oil were leaking preposterous and instead conjectured there must be at least a minimum of 120,000 barrels of oil per leaking into the Gulf.
Matt also reported that there were leaks 5 to 7 miles away which were later confirmed by a NOAA report issued by the Thomas Jefferson.
Matt Simmons also revealed that NOAA ships discovered a huge underwater plume of oil at 1100 meters below the surface which could possibly cover up to 40% of the Gulf of Mexico at a time when NOAA and the federal government were publicly denying the existence of underwater plumes of oil.
Matt made national headlines by stating BP would go bankrupt because they didn’t have enough money to clean up the Gulf of Mexico as well as making claims that the well integrity and pressures were so high that nothing short of a nuke could close this well.
Just recently after BP capped the leaking well Matt stood by his earlier claims that the well being shown the public is a fake and BP has a second well leaking in the Gulf.
The untimely death of Matt Simmons combined with his continual use of his US Government connections to blow the whistle on BP and the Government raises the question of whether Matt Simmons died of natural causes or was really assassinated.
The number one suspect for assassinating Matt Simmons is the CIA because under the rule of the Obama administration the CIA now has the ability to add anyone, including American citizens, deemed as threat to national security on what is known as the kill list.
Being placed on the kill list means the CIA can assassinate you anywhere in the world without even having to publicly make a complaint against you.
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.
Certainly the claims being made by Matt Simmons could have been deemed as a threat to National Security as Matt spoke of the apocalyptic consequences of the BP Gulf Oil Spill and those claims just may have earned Matt Simmons a place on the CIA kill list.
So now that we have see that it was indeed possible that Matt Simmons was on the CIA kill list let us the assume that the medical examiner’s report was not faked and Matt Simmons really did die from drowning after having a heart attack.
Believe it or not former CIA whistleblowers have revealed that the CIA has developed an undetectable chemical dart that dissolves completely in the skin of the target victim and causes a heart attack.
Was Matt Simmons place on the CIA kill list because he was a threat to national security?
Did BP or the CIA have Matt Simmons killed?
Was Matt Simmons assassinated?
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Without Matt Simmons: Has Peak Oil, Well, Peaked?
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By Michael Corkery
Matt Simmons, the maverick investment banker who championed the concept of peak oil, died of a heart attack in a hot tub in Maine. He was 67.
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Simmons is best known for raising the alarm, in books, in lectures, television interviews and to anyone who would listen, that the world’s oil reserves had peaked.
The concept of “peak oil” wasn’t new when Simmons wrote Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, in 2005. In fact, peak oil was first posited by a geophysicist named M. King Hubbert in the 1950s who predicted that world oil supply would peak in 1995.
But Simmons helped to being the theory to the mass media, after traveling to Saudi Arabia in 2003 to research that nation’s secretive data on oil reserves, or the amount of oil able to be pumped out of the ground. His book became an instant classic among Conspiracy theorists. It gained mainstream exposure when, in the summer of 2008, crude-oil prices began spiking to $147 a barrel and American drivers were getting crushed at the gas pump.
“I find it ironic that here we have the biggest industry on earth, and I’m one of the few people to figure out that we have a major problem,’’ Simmons told Fortune in September 2008. “And I did it all in my spare time. How stupid and tragic is that? I shouldn’t be one of the only folks that actually has a handful of ideas of how we can keep from blowing each other up and get through this.”
Simmons’ stood out because of his street credibility, not with environmentalists, but in the oil industry, where he worked for decades as an investment banker. He started his own firm Simmons & Co in 1974. He espoused maverick views, but he was still of the industry establishment (admired by T. Boone Pickens and an energy adviser to George W. Bush)
It was against the backdrop of peak-oil concerns that the industry underwent a consolidation wave, as companies clamored for greater share of a finite resource, and oil giants made plays for natural gas, such as Exxon Mobil’s acquisition of XTO late last year.
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.”
In recent weeks, BP has capped the leak and independent scientists have found that environment damage from the spill has been less than initially feared. (Simmons supported offshore oil drilling in 2008, but said Americans need to change their energy-consumption habits because even offshore sources wouldn’t produce enough oil to sustain world demand.)
Peak oil remains hotly contested and the information about reserves from less than forthcoming from such oil-rich nations as Saudi Arabia and Nigeria is incomplete, to say the least. Regardless, peak oil has lost one of its most eloquent adherents.
Senasational Claims By Matt Simmons About The BP Leak
By James Bianco - May 30th, 2010, 8:30AM
Matt Simmons gained fame with his book 2005 Twilight in the Desert where he claimed that the Saudis were overstating their oil output because they hit “peak oil.”
Right or wrong Simmons claimed the price of oil was going to skyrocket and three years after the book’s release the crude oil hit $147/Barrel.
In January 2009 the WSJ called Simmons one of the five most important voices in the oil industry.
Simmons has been wrong in the past and his views are non-conventional and often correct. Simmons is also highly connected within the oil industry so he knows who to talk to verify his claims.
I have no idea if Simmons is right or wrong but his latest claims, laid out in a Bloomberg TV interview Friday (May 28) appear to be nothing short of sensational.
Matt Simmons says “Top Kill” is a sideshow, misses the big problem of a second leak 5 to 7 miles away releasing up to 120,000 barrels/day. Simmons goes on to say we might need nukes to seal the leak.
Bloomberg:
Today Matt Simmons, one of the largest investment bankers in the energy industry appeared on Bloomberg. The chairman of Simmons & Co. INTL went on to explain that there is much more to the oil leak than the news has been reporting. Last Sunday, NOAA confirmed reports of a second fissure about 5-7 miles from the original. This new fissure appears to be releasing a plume the size of Delaware and Maryland combined! He went on to state that “the plume from the riser is minor thing… the best estimate is about 120,000 barrels of oil per day”.
Simmons is quoted as saying, “Obama could remove BP today… tell BP it is time to leave”. Some questions were also brought up that pertained to a nuclear device and how the military could lower one 18,000 feet into the well bore.
Simmons went on to say ” Such techniques have been used by the Russians on several different occasions”.
Matt Simmons “… From all of the best scientists who have thought about this in the past few days, probably the only thing we can do is create a weapons system and send it down 18,000 feet, detonate it and hopefully case in the oil.”
That we would even have discussions about setting of nuclear explosions in hope they would accomplish something is certainly not encouraging to say the least.
A day after scientists reported finding a huge “plume” of oil extending miles east of the leaking BP well, on Friday a Louisiana scientist said his crew had located another vast plume of oily globs, miles in the opposite direction.
James H. Cowan Jr., a professor at Louisiana State University, said his crew on Wednesday found a plume of oil in a section of the gulf 75 miles northwest of the source of the leak.
Cowan said that his crew sent a remotely controlled submarine into the water, and found it full of oily globules, from the size of a thumbnail to the size of a golf ball. Unlike the plume found east of the leak — in which the oil was so dissolved that contaminated water appeared clear — Cowan said the oil at this site was so thick that it covered the lights on the submarine.
“It almost looks like big wet snowflakes, but they’re brown and black and oily,” Cowan said. The submarine returned to the surface entirely black, he said.
Cowan said that the submarine traveled about 400 feet down, close to the sea floor, and found oil all the way down. Trying to find the edges of the plume, he said the submarine traveled miles from side to side.
“We really never found either end of it,” he said.
This discovery seems to confirm the fears of some scientists that — because of the depth of the leak and the heavy use of chemical “dispersants” — this spill was behaving differently than others. Instead of floating on top of the water, it may be moving beneath it.
Simmons went on the say scientist are now convinced the last majority of oil is below, and often well below, the surface. June 1 starts hurricane season and they worry that a hurricane coming aground in the Louisiana / Mississippi area could “push” all the below surface oil on the beaches and even inland.
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MATT SIMMONS, FOUNDER OF SIMMONS AND COMPANY INTERNATIONAL, TALKS TO MARK CRUMPTON AND LORI ROTHMAN ABOUT BIGGER PROBLEMS FOR BP
MAY 28, 2010
SPEAKERS: MATT SIMMONS, FOUNDER, SIMMONS AND COMPANY INTERNATIONAL MARK CRUMPTON, BLOOMBERG NEWS LORI ROTHMAN, BLOOMBERG NEWS
12:05
MARK CRUMPTON, BLOOMBERG NEWS: One oil industry veteran says BP may have bigger problems and even larger leaks several miles away. Matt Simmons, founder and chairman emeritus of Simmons and Company International, it's one of the largest investment banking practices serving the energy.
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Matt joins us now on the phone from Houston. Matt, welcome back to Bloomberg News. Always good to have you on.
MATT SIMMONS, FOUNDER, SIMMONS AND COMPANY INTERNATIONAL: Thank you. What a tragic story.
CRUMPTON: Yes it is. And tell us about this other side of the story that we're hearing about maybe even another ancillary spill. What's going on?
SIMMONS: No, if the facts that are starting to come out are right, the ancillary leak is what the riser is all about. That's a minor thing.
CRUMPTON: Okay, so talk to me, then, about what we're seeing. We've been showing -
SIMMONS: A week ago last Sunday, the first research vessel from the National Underwater Laboratory was commissioned by NOAA and scouted the area.
And what they found, to their astonishment, was about - I think somewhere between five and seven miles away from where the riser is, was a gigantic plume growing. And it's now basically spread apparently to be a larger area than Delaware and Maryland.
And that would appear to be the stuff we're finally seeing coming onto the shore - this really sticky, orange brown stuff.
So what the plumes that are coming out of the risers were minor. And the only logical conclusion anyone can draw from this is the best estimates, just measuring the spread of this oil life, is about 3,500 to 4,000 feet underwater, is that it's probably flowing at the rate of 120,000 barrels a day.
LORI ROTHMAN, BLOOMBERG NEWS: Sow what is the status, then, that of the top kill, the so called junk shot that BP -
SIMMONS: It doesn't matter.
ROTHMAN: It doesn't matter? So then what's the solution? What do you need to see done here to contain this disaster?
SIMMONS: Well what we need to do first of all, in my opinion, is tell BP that it's time for them to leave, and bring the military in. And the military can work with the contractors, and the contractors will be far more relieved, because they'll listen to them.
The second thing we need to do is get probes down to figure out where this plume is coming from, and is that an open hole. Did the well head blow out?
And then third, how do we actually stop that flow? And from all of the best scientists that have thought about this in the last few days, probably the only thing we can do is create a weapon system and send it down 18,000 feet and detonate it, and hopefully case in the oil.
CRUMPTON: Matt, is that something that you believe is being contemplated at this time?
SIMMONS: No, unfortunately I don't think it is, because BP is still totally in charge of the news, and they have everyone focused on the top kill.
ROTHMAN: So what needs to happen for the government to officially remove BP from this containment effort?
SIMMONS: President Obama could do it today.
ROTHMAN: He could do it today? It's as simple as that?
SIMMONS: Sure.
ROTHMAN: And then you're talking about using weaponry. Won't that have - the collateral damage risk, that would have to be substantial. Explain to me how that would work and protect citizens.
SIMMONS: Several times in the last 30 years, the Russians had huge blowouts. And from our best reports, they actually figured out how to insert small nuclear bombs way down into the well bore.
If you're 18,000 feet under the seabed, that basically wouldn't do anything. Hopefully it will seal in the well.
And the second thing we need to do is recognize that there is a giant ocean - lake of this very gooey oil that's about 4,000 feet underwater. And that's where we need to send in the supertankers and basically start sucking them into the supertankers before the hurricanes arrive.
CRUMPTON: Alright, Matt, we're going to have to leave it there. Matt Simmons, founder, chairman emeritus of Simmons and Company joining us on the phone from Houston. Matt, thank you so much.
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Opinion: BP oil disaster has huge repercussions
A conversation with Big Oil’s Cassandra, Matt Simmons
By HDS Greenway - GlobalPost
Published: July 10, 2010 10:09 ET in Worldview
A beach goer walks on the beach where oil is seen in the water as it washes ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on June 26, 2010 in Orange Beach, Alabama.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
ROCKPORT, Maine — The international repercussions from the BP oil disaster can only be guessed at today.
Will the oil stay in the Gulf of Mexico? Or will it circulate out into the Atlantic to be borne by the Gulf Stream to contaminate foreign shores? How much oil is yet to escape into the oceans? And how will it affect the world’s economy?
Bermuda, a self-governing British dependency, has already sent people to Washington to discuss the possible ramifications. Tourism, second only to insurance in Bermuda’s economy, stands to suffer if its pristine beaches are defiled.
Canada’s Prince Edward Island is enquiring whether its 300 licensed tuna fishermen will be affected if the tuna’s spawning grounds in the gulf are destroyed. The province is reportedly contacting BP for potential help.
And then there is BP itself, which may not be too big to fail if too many demands are put upon it. A bankrupt BP would send shocks through financial markets all over the world. Already pension funds in Europe and America are suffering the effects of the oil spill because BP, under pressure from the Obama administration, has cancelled its dividend.
One optimist when it comes to containing the oil in the Gulf of Mexico is former investment banker to the petroleum industry and energy expert Mathew Simmons. He said most of the oil is too heavy to be swept out of the gulf on looping currents. Therefore he thinks Bermuda has little to worry about.
But that is the only aspect of the BP disaster that Simmons is optimistic about. One of the industry’s world class pessimists, Simmons caused controversy with his book, “Twilight in the Desert,” which posits that Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves are about to dry up. As a result Simmons is now in the forefront of exploring new sources of energy.
I sat with him for an hour on his porch looking out over the Penobscot Bay the other day, and the picture he painted of the current disaster was enough to make my notebook curl up at the edges.
According to Simmons, BP has been lying to us all along, perpetuating one of the biggest cover-ups in history: “The Watergate of the environment.” From the very beginning BP presented the disaster as a rig fire, while all along “it was the Gulf of Mexico that was on fire, ” according to Simmons. The real problem, he fears, is not the damaged under-water well head, but a crack in the ocean floor some miles from the rig disaster which is gushing unchecked. Simmons believes we should seize all of BP’s assets in America, “just the way we did with Iran.”
Oil industry insider Matt Simmons blew the whistle on the made-for-TV
capping of the so-called oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday, July
15, during an interview on KPFK radio, the NPR station in Los Angeles.
Simmons, former energy adviser to the second President Bush, explained
that according to his reading of the data from NOAA, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, capping of the so-called riser
and the subsequent announcement by U.S. President Obama was "the
biggest con job we've ever seen."
Simmons, creator of an investment bank catering to oil companies, told
radio host Ian Masters that the real problem continuing to gush oil
into the Gulf was not the 6-inch "riser" that apparently has been
capped amid much TV hoopla, but that an open hole or cauldron perhaps
up to 10 miles distant from where British Petroleum's cameras are
focused which continues to spew 120,000 BARRELS per day, and that BP's
much publicized effort to drill relief wells in what the company says
is an effort to stop the flow of oil is nothing but a cynical
publicity stunt.
"The dimensions of this lie are beyond belief," said Simmons,
explaining that the idea of a relief well is "tricky at best," since
trying to hit a pipe of less than a foot in diameter 35,000 feet below
the surface of the Gulf may be entirely futile because the casing of
the original pipe is not even there, having blown away at some point.
But Simmons noted that both BP and Obama continue to deny that this
open hole, or cauldron, even exists, even though Simmons and others
insist the NOAA data from satellites prove by speed of flow and depth
of light that the amount of oil that has been flowing through the
on-camera riser could not possibly account for the amount of oil that
has spilled into the Gulf.
"The riser is totally irrelevant," Simmons stressed, adding "and
there's no way to cap the open hole." He explained that BP continues
to deny the open hole exists and theorizes the continuing flow of oil
into the Gulf is really just the residue from what has already been
spilled during the first 90 days of the disaster.
"There is denial that there's even a problem," Simmons said. "In about
a month or two people will realize that this actually was the biggest
con job we've ever seen."
Simmons also noted an additional danger. "What the researchers now
believe is that basically is that between 4000 and 4500 below the
ocean floor lies an oil lake that's somewhere between 100 and 120
miles wide and it's about 4500 feet deep. It's this toxic waste and
crude and it's releasing methane gases that are absolutely lethal
which is why all the fish and dolphins and sharks and whales are
dying. And workers too, which is why so many have gotten sick, or
maybe really sick.
"The health problems are so serious," Simmons said. "When you inhale
methane you just die."
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