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Exxon CEO Suing Over Fracking Near His $5M Ranch Needs ‘The East’ Film (Video)

Sunday, February 23, 2014 11:21
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ExxonMobil’s CEO, who’s joined a lawsuit to stop a fracking project near his $5 million Texas horse ranch because he says the project would devalue his property, might do well to watch a Sundance Film Festival movie The East.

The East official trailer is below, in case any reader might want to share it with the Big Energy CEO, or just want a better idea how the 1% are protected from their own poisons.

“You spy on us? We’ll spy on you. You lie to us? We’ll lie to you. You poison us? We’ll poison you.” – The East

ExxonMobil’s CEO, Rex Tillerson: Fracking Noise, Chemical Pollution, Property Devaluing Are Of No Consequences, Just NIMBY (Not In My Backyard)

As ExxonMobil’s CEO, Rex Tillerson’s job is to promote Fracking (hydraulic fracturing) so the recent oil and gas boom can continue with regulatory oversight remaining minimal.

ExxonMobile is the largest natural gas producer. To maintain that status, it relies on fracking to extract gas, regardless of health and property consequences to residents in nearby areas.

When Tillerson’s $5 million property value might be harmed, however, it’s an exception to pain and suffering he subjects to the 99%.

Tillerson has joined a lawsuit citing fracking’s consequences to block construction of a 160-foot water tower next to his and his wife’s Texas home.

The Wall Street Journal reports the tower would supply water to a nearby fracking site, and the plaintiffs argue the project would cause too much noise and traffic from hauling the water from the tower to the drilling site.

The tower, owned by Cross Timbers Water Supply Corporation, “will sell water to oil and gas explorers for fracking shale formations leading to traffic with heavy trucks on FM 407, creating a noise nuisance and traffic hazards,” the suit says.

Tillerson’s lawyer representing him said his concern is about devaluation of his property, not fracking specifically.

When acting as Exxon CEO, not a homeowner, Tillerson has lashed out at fracking critics and proponents of regulation.

“This type of dysfunctional regulation is holding back the American economic recovery, growth and global competitiveness,” he said in 2012. Natural gas production “is an old technology just being applied, integrated with some new technologies,” he said in another interview. “So the risks are very manageable.”

In shale regions, less wealthy residents have protested fracking development for impacts more consequential than noise, including water contamination and cancer risk. Exxon’s oil and gas operations and resulting spills sink property values and have even leveled homes and destroyed regions.

Only two weeks ago, a worker on one of Chevron’s fracking pads In Pennsylvania died when a blowout occurred.

Exxon, that pays Tillerson $40.3 million, is staying tight-lipped about the legal tangle causing a PR nightmare for the company.

A company spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal that it “has no involvement in the legal matter.”

 

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  • Do each of the 1% abusing the 99% need firsthand experiences of fracking, nuclear fallout, coal pollution poison? Or do we just need to boycott their energy solutions and start using renewable energy without them?

    As if you can’t tell if you read this article, regardless of your spiritual and political preferences, I highly recommend watching ‘THE EAST.’ If you can watch it with an employee or staff of Big Energy, all the better. – Peace.

  • How dare you question the superior rights of the one percent over the 99 percent? They’ll have to sic their trolls on you.

  • I don’t think the coup will come from the active military, I think you missed the point in the video being retired military myself I am mad as hell at what is happening in my country. Remember those top level military, fired for petty reasons. Who are being very under the radar, there is something coming down. If we the people don’t do anything we will have lost, we need a Egypt, and Ukraine moment, they have shown us what we have to do. The American Spring is coming and if we don’t get onboard we will have lost our only opportunity to turn this thing around. How many times to we have to have $hit thrown in our faces before we get it ( IT STINKS ) 22 of our Elite forces killed, an U.S. ambassador Killed, IRS scandal, Fort Hood shooting, Fast and furious, Obama Care roll out debacle, and the Muslim Brotherhood in top level positions, and not to mention what the Hell is Valerie Jarrett doing in the advisor to the president position? Wake up America!!!!!!!!

    What’s wrong with fracking anyway?

    • It poisons the ground water supply.

  • Well, well, well. Poetic Justice, maybe?

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