Exxon’s Pro-Fracking CEO Is Suing to Stop Fracking Near His Mansion

[KamaAina]

http://www.thenation.com/article/exxons-pro-fracking-ceo-suing-stop-fracking-near-his-mansion/



Fancy a side of irony with your corporate hypocrisy? Last night on MSNBC, Nation Editor-at-Large Chris Hayes profiled ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, a vocal proponent of hydraulic fracking, who is suing to prevent the construction of a water tower near his eighty-three-acre, $5 million horse ranch in Bartonville, Texas. The purpose of the tower? Storing water for fracking. Tillerson and his super-wealthy neighbors are concerned, the lawsuit states, that the fracking tower might “devalue their properties and adversely impact the rural lifestyle they sought to enjoy.” As Hayes put it, “Rex Tillerson is leading the fracking revolution, just not in his backyard.”

Anti-fracking activist Nelson Muntz commented:

[saturnsring]

1. i agree with nelson -- unreal

[HughBeaumont]

2. "They can't do this to our environment . . . Only WE can do this to the environment!"

[Initech]

4. We have an old saying at Delta House - "Don't get mad, get even."

[HughBeaumont]

11. "Put Neidermeyer on it . . . he's a sneaky little shit just like you."

[Initech]

12. "You're not walking out of this one!!! I'll call your national office! I'll revoke your charter!"

[Arugula Latte]

3. Throw him in jail and give him only fracking water to drink.

[Initech]

9. Better idea. Put him under house arrest - in Flint.

Bet he wouldn't last a week.

[Initech]

5. Poor little billionaire complaining everyone else's problems are now his? Boo fucking hoo.

[blue neen]

6. "Ha Ha" is right!

Priceless.

[djean111]

7. My gosh! Doesn't he know that he would be personally responsible for rising oil prices??????

He, and the earth, should be proud to make the sacrifice!!!!!

[cyberswede]

8. *snerk*

[Dont call me Shirley]

10. Frack, baby, frack on Rex's property. Frack by his well. Frack near his home. He deserves it!

[gratuitous]

13. Let me guess

This being Texas, a heretofore unknown provision of the law will relieve Mr. Tillerson from any personal inconvenience due to his industry's extraction efforts. That same provision, however, will not be available to anyone who doesn't own an 83 acre $5 million ranch.

We call that equal justice under law in these parts.

[lame54]

14. This is pure bullshit...

Nelson would totally be for fracking - and a Trump voter too

[KamaAina]

18. True, but no one else says "Ha ha!" like he does.

[Carolina]

15. Classic NIMBY

Well, guess what Fracker Tillerson, fracking is now in your backyard. Suck it!

[Eleanors38]

16. What's that sound?! 75 feral hogs evacuating in a shallow tank pond.

[moondust]

17. Move to Elysium, asshole.

Can we help you pack?

[phylny]

19. This was accurate, but if I'm not mistaken

this article is over two years old.

[KamaAina]

20. Well, it hadn't been posted here

I always search before I post, having been burned many times in the past.