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Breaking: Media Already Trying to Discredit Matt Simmons
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I can hear them now saying, "lately he's been making odd claims about BP", etc... It's sad that they get away with shit like this.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1059478They pretty much did in the article. Went right after the meat of it, like it has just been under their skin. He's not even cold yet ffs. In recent months, his pronouncements about the BP oil spill stretched thin his remaining strands of credibility. A few weeks after the spill began I had a conversation with him where he swore that BP, in cohoots with the federal government, was covering up a far greater leak in the seafloor near the Macondo well, where more than 100,000 bpd of oil was gushing up. He told me that the whole oil reservoir was likely to burst up suddenly through miles of rock and explode into the ocean “like popping a zit.” This would be the worst environmental catastrophe the world had ever known, he said.
Simmons got a lot of press for these ideas — but they were preposterous. The investment bank that Simmons founded (and with which he made a fortune raising capital for oil services companies) went so far as to issue a statement saying that the comments of their dear chairman emeritus did not reflect the beliefs of their analysts and staff. They were, frankly, embarrassed by their crazy old uncle.
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