Matthew Simmons Dies Sunday
NORTH HAVEN, Maine --
The former energy adviser to President George W. Bush died suddenly Sunday at his home in North Haven.
Matthew Simmons was a leading energy investment banker, an author and found of Ocean Energy Institute base in Rockland.
OEI is a nonprofit think tank and venture capital fund dedicated to expanding offshore energy through research and development.
Gov. John Baldacci called Simmons a kind, generous man. "I visited Matt and his team last month and thanked them for their partnership with the state as we aggressively build an independent energy future for Maine. Our state has been viewed as a leader in alternative energy in part because of the groundbreaking work spearheaded by Matt Simmons and the Ocean Energy Institute. His leadership and commitment to a better world will be missed, and we need to continue Matt's work and vision as a way to honor him," Baldacci said.
Simmons is the author of the 2005 book "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy," which laid out an argument of peak oil, that the world was approaching peak oil production.
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