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HomerJS

HomerJS

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Exxon CEO joins anti-fracking lawsuit after drilling threatens his property value
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This has to be the biggest facepalm of the year. Screw the little people dealing with pollutants in the water, water catching on fire, massive increase in the number of earthquakes.

Big energy the 1% of the 1% constantly preaches the need for energy expansion at home. But not near my house??

Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson is involved in a legal battle over fracking. The weird part is, he’s on the side that’s against it.

Don’t worry, Tillerson hasn’t changed his “Drill, baby, drill” mentality or had a change of heart about the evils of regulatory oversight in general. He’s just worried about the effect that drilling is going to have where he lives. Specifically, he wants to block the construction of a 160-foot water tower next to his home in Bartonville, Texas, which would provide water for nearby fracking operations. In order to do so, The Wall Street Journal reports, he’s signed onto a lawsuit that details the many unsavory consequences of fracking:
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Ready the rest its just too good.

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/21/exx..._after_drilling_threatens_his_property_value/
 
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cubby1223

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What is the point to this?

He is no different than you or I. We all want to benefit from the energy, and don't want to see the sore sights daily from collecting that energy.
 
master_shake_

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poor guy... i feel for him i really do...

imagine running a company thats going to hurt your natural habitat he must be so conflicted.
 
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Exterous

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So...uh...did you actually bother looking into this at all before you chose a title which is completely at odds with the truth?

Since 2007, companies have fracked at least nine shale wells within a mile of the Tillerson home, according to Texas regulatory and real-estate records.
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HomerJS said:
Screw the little people dealing with pollutants in the water, water catching on fire, massive increase in the number of earthquakes.

Big energy the 1% of the 1% constantly preaches the need for energy expansion at home. But not near my house??
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:hmm: That is a ridiculously misinformed and ignorant statement unless you think less than a mile would not be considered near his house.

This is not about fracking (which everyone actually involved agrees) or drilling in his backyard but about a water tower and traffic. The fracking is already taking place. They were ok with it when it was a series of low rise tanks instead of a 160ft tall one

“This is not an anti-fracking lawsuit,” Whitten said. “Nothing could be further from the truth.”

Lloyd Hanson, the controller of Cross Timbers Water Supply Corp., the target of the lawsuit, doesn’t disagree. The new water tower is needed to meet growing residential and commercial demand in the area, he said, but the company hasn’t sold water to energy companies since about 2009, and even then sales were was minimal. And trucks do not draw water directly from a tower site.

Hanson said he has repeated this explanation to more media outlets than he can count.

“We’ve had The Times in London, New York City, the Detroit Free Press,” he said, plus Houston and local media outlets. “They all want to know if this is being built for fracking. That’s not accurate,” Hanson said.
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The suit said they and other neighboring property owners were all told that only low-rise water tanks were planned by the water company, which Hanson said serves a 20-square-mile area.

Instead, the suit claims, the water company began building a 160-foot water tank
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And - this started in 2011 when a water company sued the township for the right to build a water tower

In 2011, Bartonville denied Cross Timbers a permit to build the water tower, saying the location was reserved for residences. The water company sued, arguing that it is exempt from municipal zoning because of its status as a public utility.

In May 2012, a state district court judge agreed with Cross Timbers and compelled the town to issue a permit. The utility resumed construction as the town appealed the decision.

Later that year, the Armeys, the Tillersons and their co-plaintiffs sued Cross Timbers, saying that the company had promised them it wouldn't build a tower near their properties.
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http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post--exxon-ceo-joins-lawsuit-citing-fracking-concerns
http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/02/24/5597785/water-tower-suit-involving-exxons.html
 
sportage

sportage

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The rich. WTF. Go figure...
Think nothing about sticking a noisy polluting ugly contraption i.e. water tower for supplying water for fracking up in any-town America, and then going to court to make sure that tower stays put.
But in their own back yard?
Hell no. Im rich. I don't have to put up my shit, ops, I meant with this shit.
yah you do. But I don't. Beginning to see the difference here?
Maybe this CEO needs to rebuild in maybe, Dubai?
I mean heck, all your buddies are already there....
And its the American thing to do. For that CEO.
 
MagickMan

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I'm going to start reporting the class bigotry around here, and see what happens. :hmm:
 
1prophet

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Sounds just like them non-conservative types that want wind power except in their view at Cape Cod.:whiste:
 
Newell Steamer

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Frack Texas - frack it good.

Maybe then, with all the hollowing out of the ground beneath them, they can split off and physically detatch themselves from the US.
 
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Incorruptible

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HomerJS said:
This has to be the biggest facepalm of the year. Screw the little people dealing with pollutants in the water, water catching on fire, massive increase in the number of earthquakes.

Big energy the 1% of the 1% constantly preaches the need for energy expansion at home. But not near my house??



Ready the rest its just too good.

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/21/exx..._after_drilling_threatens_his_property_value/
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The stupidity of the OP never ceases to amaze me. Are you really this ignorant that you think fracking causes earthquakes? It's people like him that are screwing up the country with their sheer ignorance and fearmongering.
 
Pens1566

Pens1566

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Incorruptible said:
The stupidity of the OP never ceases to amaze me. Are you really this ignorant that you think fracking causes earthquakes? It's people like him that are screwing up the country with their sheer ignorance and fearmongering.
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Didn't realize you were the OP ...
 
Fanatical Meat

Fanatical Meat

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Incorruptible said:
The stupidity of the OP never ceases to amaze me. Are you really this ignorant that you think fracking causes earthquakes? It's people like him that are screwing up the country with their sheer ignorance and fearmongering.
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I know I feeding the trolling here. We need to look at fracking better, there have been reports of more seismic activity near fracking/deep drilling wells and people a rightfully concerned about what kind of chemicals are going into the ground and what type of effect that may have. The oil boom is great news for the country we can finally get away from meddling with the middle east.
However the point of this is oil companies have traditionally shot down similar lawsuits in court it will be interesting to see where this one goes.
 
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PokerGuy

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Sigh. The title is complete BS. If you actually go read what's going on rather than just blabbering about things you have no clue about.

Read post #5, then you can google it and understand the actual issue. Hint: it is not even remotely what the OP's title would have you think.
 
Doc Savage Fan

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Zaap said:
LOL. Another bout of self—ownage from the OP.
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He does this all the time. I'm kind of surprised the mods haven't come by to make him change the thread title to something slightly more honest with at least some basis in reality. But sometimes it's more entertaining to leave it be and watch the "intellectuals" among us wallow in Homer's world.
 
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dainthomas

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Exterous said:
So...uh...did you actually bother looking into this at all before you chose a title which is completely at odds with the truth?





:hmm: That is a ridiculously misinformed and ignorant statement unless you think less than a mile would not be considered near his house.

This is not about fracking (which everyone actually involved agrees) or drilling in his backyard but about a water tower and traffic. The fracking is already taking place. They were ok with it when it was a series of low rise tanks instead of a 160ft tall one





And - this started in 2011 when a water company sued the township for the right to build a water tower



http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post--exxon-ceo-joins-lawsuit-citing-fracking-concerns
http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/02/24/5597785/water-tower-suit-involving-exxons.html
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Spin baby, spin!
 
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