Sob. Poor little Exxon says that PA prosecutors are picking on them over fracking spill

[cali]

Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) says that Pennsylvania prosecutors are unfairly picking on the oil behemoth in an effort to stop hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the gas-rich state.

The company’s subsidiary, XTO Energy Inc, is fighting criminal charges over a 2010 wastewater spill that Pennsylvania authorities say leaked pollution into a tributary of the Susquehanna River. The charges are the first of their kind against a public company drilling in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale, the Wall Street Journal reported.

In a recent motion, XTO accused Attorney General Kathleen Kane of singling the company out as part of “an arbitrary and improper law-enforcement agenda” whose goal might be to “end hydro-fracturing in Pennsylvania altogether.”

Kane fired back this week in a court filing that calls XTO’s claims “nothing more than weak attempts to obfuscate the truth,” the WSJ reported. Carolyn Myers, a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office, told the WSJ that the state has convicted more than 800 individuals and companies of environmental crimes. “No single industry has been targeted,” she said.

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http://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/exxon-fights-criminal-fracking-case-294415

Fracking is safe. Fracking is much better than coal. So says President Obama who supports not just the status quo- which is largely unregulated due to the Halliburton loophole, but he supports even more expansion.

[femmocrat]

1. Go, AG Kane!

Although she didn't have a big success with the corbutt-sandusky connection, I think she is looking out for PA residents. Going after frackers in PA takes courage!

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. I missed that this even happened.

Googled it - their storage facility "lost" 57,000 of 93,000 gallons of fracking fluid at the site?

http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/press.aspx?id=7191

And its right at a tributary of a river that dumps straight into the Chesapeake bay! Look out Maryland - fracking may be just as poisonous to your people as it is to PA.