Meet the Frackers A who's who of top executives cashing in on the new gas and oil boom.

[limpyhobbler]

—By Dave Gilson | Mon Oct. 29, 2012 3:03 AM PDT

David Lesar, Halliburton: Halliburton launched the first US commercial fracking operation in 1949. At a 2011 conference, CEO Lesar asked his CFO to demonstrate the safety of the company's CleanStim fracking fluid by taking a sip of it. The exec reported that it "tastes like beer."


Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil: Since 2006, Tillerson has been CEO of the nation's top natural gas producer. Fracking concerns, he says, are hyped by "lazy" journalists and groups that "manufacture fear," and one of his company's challenges is educating "an illiterate public" about fracking.


Aubrey McClendon, Chesapeake Energy: Cofounder of the Marcellus Shale's biggest player, McClendon calls fracking critics "modern day Luddites" who dream of "some fantasy world of no fossil fuels." He's reportedly worth $1.1 billion, but a weak economy led him to sell most of his 100,000 bottles of wine.


Charles and David Koch, Koch Industries: The brothers, worth around $25 billion each, have bankrolled energy industry front groups and raised millions to help defeat President Obama. Koch Industries and its subsidiaries (PDF) transport and trade oil from fracking operations and produce chemicals used in fracking.

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more frackers: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/oil-gas-fracking-executives-ceo

[Champion Jack]

1. K&R

[savebigbird]

2. Is it just me

or do the Koch brothers look like chin puppets? Off topic, I know (sorry).

[limpyhobbler]

3. no I totally see it

Especially the Koch bro on the right.

[goclark]

4. spit on all of them

Scum of the earth.