No Fracking in our 'Hood, Dick Armey & ExxonMobil CEO Say

[douglas9]

DENTON, Texas (CN) - Exxon Mobil's CEO and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey are plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to stop construction of a water tower that will block their views - and be used to supply nearby fracking operations.
Armey, Exxon chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson and several of their neighbors sued the Bartonville Water Supply Corp., a suburban Dallas water utility, to stop construction of a 160-foot water tower near their luxury homes.
In the lawsuit in Denton County Court, Tillerson claims to own a $5 million horse ranch near the tower site, with "homes, barns, and a state of the art horse training facility."
Armey, a Republican, describes his home as a "78-acre homestead" worth more than $2 million. The nine other plaintiffs claim each of their homes is worth $1 million to $1.9 million.
Armey claims that before he bought his home, he noticed that Bartonville Water Supply owned 4.75 acres nearby and before he closed on the property he sought assurance that the utility did not have the right "to build a high-rise water tower or other structure" there.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/02/24/65569.htm

[hobbit709]

1. Typical NIMBY attitude of the 1%.

[MiniMe]

4. That was my first thought

almost exact same words.

[kelliekat44]

2. That ought to be good enough to kill Keystone...people living where Keystone will really affect

their water and environmental safety ought to be out in numbers protesting the hypocrisy.

[Berlum]

3. Hypocrisy is THE core Republicon "Family Value"

...as the Republicons demonstrate over and over and over.

[trusty elf]

7. .........

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[Gman]

5. Guess what

That tower will NOT be built.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. It's the "free market", you communist hippie assholes. nt