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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExxon’s Pro-Fracking CEO Is Suing to Stop Fracking Near His Mansion
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:
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Exxon’s Pro-Fracking CEO Is Suing to Stop Fracking Near His Mansion (Original Post)
KamaAina
Mar 2016
OP
"They can't do this to our environment . . . Only WE can do this to the environment!"
HughBeaumont
Mar 2016
#2
"You're not walking out of this one!!! I'll call your national office! I'll revoke your charter!"
Initech
Mar 2016
#12
Poor little billionaire complaining everyone else's problems are now his? Boo fucking hoo.
Initech
Mar 2016
#5
My gosh! Doesn't he know that he would be personally responsible for rising oil prices??????
djean111
Mar 2016
#7
Frack, baby, frack on Rex's property. Frack by his well. Frack near his home. He deserves it!
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2016
#10
saturnsring
(1,832 posts)1. i agree with nelson -- unreal
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)2. "They can't do this to our environment . . . Only WE can do this to the environment!"
Initech
(100,076 posts)4. We have an old saying at Delta House - "Don't get mad, get even."
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)11. "Put Neidermeyer on it . . . he's a sneaky little shit just like you."
Initech
(100,076 posts)12. "You're not walking out of this one!!! I'll call your national office! I'll revoke your charter!"
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)3. Throw him in jail and give him only fracking water to drink.
Initech
(100,076 posts)9. Better idea. Put him under house arrest - in Flint.
Bet he wouldn't last a week.
Initech
(100,076 posts)5. Poor little billionaire complaining everyone else's problems are now his? Boo fucking hoo.
blue neen
(12,321 posts)6. "Ha Ha" is right!
Priceless.
djean111
(14,255 posts)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
(26,117 posts)8. *snerk*
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)10. Frack, baby, frack on Rex's property. Frack by his well. Frack near his home. He deserves it!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)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
(35,290 posts)14. This is pure bullshit...
Nelson would totally be for fracking - and a Trump voter too
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)18. True, but no one else says "Ha ha!" like he does.
Carolina
(6,960 posts)15. Classic NIMBY
Well, guess what Fracker Tillerson, fracking is now in your backyard. Suck it!
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)16. What's that sound?! 75 feral hogs evacuating in a shallow tank pond.
moondust
(19,982 posts)17. Move to Elysium, asshole.
Can we help you pack?
phylny
(8,380 posts)19. This was accurate, but if I'm not mistaken
this article is over two years old.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)20. Well, it hadn't been posted here
I always search before I post, having been burned many times in the past.