Water tower suit involving Exxon’s CEO prompts a fracking fracas
The Link: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/02/24/5597785/water-tower-suit-involving-exxons.html
It can’t have been what Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson expected when he joined a lawsuit to try and stop a big water tower from being built near his Denton County horse ranch.
But that was before a report in Friday’s Wall Street Journal took the small-town dispute around the globe and spawned outrage over perceived hypocrisy.
“Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson Sues to Block Water Tower That Might Supply Fracking Operations,” cried the Huffington Post online news site. “Exxon Mobil CEO: No fracking near my backyard,” reported USA Today.
A congressman even jumped in. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., issued a news release saying Tillerson was “trying to prevent a hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ tower from being constructed near his Texas home.” (Whatever a fracking tower is.)
Tillerson is part of a lawsuit filed against a water company by several property owners, including former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, who live near the tower site in Bartonville, a community between Flower Mound and Argyle.
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This is looking more and more like generic, not specific, NIMBY.
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