Matt Simmons RIP

Post by **clv101** » 09 Aug 2010, 15:39

http://www.wlbz2.com/news/local/story.a ... 86&catid=3

Matt Simmons apparently drowned at his home Sunday night

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.
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Post by **clv101** » 09 Aug 2010, 15:46

I've met Matt a few times, a nice fellow and over the years did a fantastic job of raising the profile of peak oil. His recent out of this world pronouncements over the BP accident left many perplexed and now this tragedy.

The message from Simmons & Co is that he passed away in his sleep. RIP.

Blue Peter · Post by **Blue Peter** » 09 Aug 2010, 15:47

I wonder if this has links to the topics of other threads in which he was mentioned recently.

Sad news,

Peter.

Post by **clv101** » 09 Aug 2010, 16:01

http://www.streetinsider.com/General+Ne ... 77094.html

http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/Ener ... Haven.html

OrraLoon · Post by **OrraLoon** » 09 Aug 2010, 16:40

clv101 wrote:I've met Matt a few times, a nice fellow and over the years did a fantastic job of raising the profile of peak oil. His recent out of this world pronouncements over the BP accident left many perplexed and now this tragedy.

The message from Simmons & Co is that he passed away in his sleep. RIP.

Similarly perplexed.

Just saw the news on the Green Energy Investors site.

Something about drowning in a pool.

PowerSwitchJames · Post by **PowerSwitchJames** » 09 Aug 2010, 18:06

RIP Matt. Your contribution to peak oil awareness is amongst the greatest out there.

lurker · Post by **lurker** » 09 Aug 2010, 18:13

Borderline madness over the deep water thing then a odd death

Theres bound to conspiracy theories spring up over this

*dons TF hat*

lancasterlad · Post by **lancasterlad** » 09 Aug 2010, 18:23

Gosh, I'm shocked. Poor bloke.

OrraLoon · Post by **OrraLoon** » 09 Aug 2010, 19:14

lancasterlad wrote:Gosh, I'm shocked. Poor bloke.

There's been a 'database error' on the LATOC Forum for some time.

Konspiracy overdrive?

jonny2mad · Post by **jonny2mad** » 09 Aug 2010, 19:27

My sympathy to mr simmonds family I heard about the death via facebook and mike ruppert , matthew simmonds did some fine work and raised peak oil awareness greatly .
very sad news .

lancasterlad · Post by **lancasterlad** » 09 Aug 2010, 20:31

OrraLoon wrote:
lancasterlad wrote:Gosh, I'm shocked. Poor bloke.
There's been a 'database error' on the LATOC Forum for some time.

Konspiracy overdrive?

I wasn't agreeing with the conspiracies, I simply meant what I said.

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 09 Aug 2010, 21:13

I met him once. First Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, now Matt Simmons. Colin Campbell next?

[/conspiracy]

Kieran · Post by **Kieran** » 09 Aug 2010, 21:33

Andy Hunt wrote:I met him once. First Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, now Matt Simmons. Colin Campbell next?

[/conspiracy]

Exactly what I was thinking. Once is chance, twice is coincidence, third time is a pattern...

MacG · Post by **MacG** » 09 Aug 2010, 21:46

Kieran wrote:
Andy Hunt wrote:I met him once. First Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, now Matt Simmons. Colin Campbell next?

[/conspiracy]
Exactly what I was thinking. Once is chance, twice is coincidence, third time is a pattern...

And by now you might start to suspect that even YOU are targeted. Together with your entire family. Hehehe... That's what happen when time pass by. We get older and finally we die from old age. Nobody has escaped as far as I know.

OrraLoon · Post by **OrraLoon** » 09 Aug 2010, 22:06

MacG wrote:finally we die from old age. Nobody has escaped as far as I know.

Or even sooner from adage.

Not that I meant that LancasterLad was a partaker in konspiracy theories, BTW.

I think we need to be careful about rushing out an instant paperback on recent sad events.