Who was Matt Simmons?
http://www.businessinsider.com/was-m...l-spill-2010-8
http://www.businessinsider.com/matth...ortages-2010-8
http://www.businessinsider.com/was-m...l-spill-2010-8
His latest theory called BP's now-successful mission to plug the well a diversion from the real leak. Here's what he told Bloomberg on July 21:
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.
If he's right, it could take years of depleted fish stock and human injury to know for sure. Or the "cover-up" could be exposed any moment.
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.
If he's right, it could take years of depleted fish stock and human injury to know for sure. Or the "cover-up" could be exposed any moment.
While many were introduced to him only recently, due to his apocalyptic outlook for the situation in the Gulf of Mexico, his actual legacy will be his work on peak oil and resource scarcity.
To that effect, it's worth flipping through his presentation from a conference this spring on the coming scarcity of both oil and water.
To that effect, it's worth flipping through his presentation from a conference this spring on the coming scarcity of both oil and water.
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