Questions... We Have Questions About the Blowout

By John Ballard

Conspiracy du jour. I report, you decide...

Thanks to the speed and efficiency of the Internets we are being treated to sensational news more rapidly than ever. It seems that every piece of news is encrusted with a rash of copy-cat stories and suggestions of conspiracy. In the last thirty-six hours the Steven Slater story (which really happened) was followed within hours by the Dry-Erase girl's viral video  (which was a hoax).

Matt Simmons: BP, CIA conspiracy theory suggested behind his unexpected death

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.�

Here's a link to another video documenting that BP had TWO wells underway, and deceived the world by playing a shell game with underwater cameras.

I don't have enough information to make an informed statement about the death of Matt Simmons or whether BP played a shell game with two wells, but fish kills stories are too widespread and widely reported to ignore. Suggested causes other than the oil spill include excessive heat from climate change and toxic levels of nitrogen runoff from fertilizer.