"The founder of the Ocean Energy Institute dies"

[GreenPartyVoter]

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.

Not much more: http://www.wlbz2.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=123586

[Nihil]

1. Kick for anyone else who was wondering ...

Yes, this "Matthew Simmons" is the Matt Simmons, the Peak Oil evangelist,
author of "Twilight in the Desert" and many excellent PO essays.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6831

Unfortunately, he was also the author of the most off-the-wall piece of tripe
on the Gulf of Mexico events but, as someone in the above thread noted, we
should "remember people who have passed for their best moments, not their
last moments" so, in that spirit, RIP Matt Simmons.