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Hydraulic Fracturing Hypocrisy: Exxon CEO Says No to Fracking
The dangerous gas mining process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is threatening the fresh water supply of our entire planet. Although petrochemical corporations still feebly try to claim that this mining process is safe, this largely unregulated toxic method of natural gas extraction is creating so much chemical and methane pollution, that in some regions the contaminated local household tap water actually catches on fire.
This unstable gas well drilling process was developed by Halliburton, and requires millions of gallons of fluid, sand and volatile toxic chemicals to be blasted into the ground under very high pressure. The fracking process itself is like a small earthquake; the intense pressure “fractures” the shale and creates fissures which enable natural gas to flow into the water supply. Anywhere from 80 to 300 tons of lethal chemicals, such as toluene and benzene, are injected into the earth’s crust every single time that a well is fracked.
One of our media network’s sister sites, Red, Green and Blue, recently published a post chronicling the hydraulic fracturing hypocrisy of ExxonMobil’s CEO, Rex Tillerson, as he sues to stop fracking on his own property. You can read the article in full below:
Exxon CEO sues to stop fracking, says it would hurt his property values
Big surprise. The big oil companies that tell us everything is perfectly safe when it’s in our back yard… have no desire to allow it when their OWN homes are at risk.
Exxon is the biggest gas producer in the US, so EXXON may well be the biggest fracker in the US. And its CEO, Rex Tillerson, has certainly been a big champion of fracking. Just… not when it’s near HIS house.
As ThinkProgress gleefully reports:
image via Red, Green and BlueAs ExxonMobil’s CEO, it’s Rex Tillerson’s job to promote the hydraulic fracturing enabling the recent oil and gas boom, and fight regulatory oversight. The oil company is the biggest natural gas producer in the U.S., relying on the controversial drilling technology to extract it.
The exception is when Tillerson’s $5 million property value might be harmed. Tillerson has joined a lawsuit that cites fracking’s consequences in order to block the construction of a 160-foot water tower next to his and his wife’s Texas home.
… When he is 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.
… Exxon’s oil and gas operations and the resulting spills not only sinks property values, but the spills have leveled homes and destroyed regions.
The post Hydraulic Fracturing Hypocrisy: Exxon CEO Says No to Fracking appeared first on EcoLocalizer.
Source: http://ecolocalizer.com/2014/02/22/hydraulic-fracturing-hypocrisy-exxon-ceo-says-no-to-fracking/
PROOF ALL LEADERS SHOULD BE PUT IN JAIL.
Everything you are showing, was happening before Fracking. It was actually happening much more than it is today, 150 years ago. Just the existence of oil and natural gas causes this.
Amen
You used to hear about people being able to light their faucet well water on fire all the time from people as old or older than my grandparents, so that would take that way back before 1900, when I was a kid back in the 60′s and it didn’t have anything to do with any kind of drilling anywhere near them.
Pure Hysteria
Inflammable water has to be the ultimate corruption. I don’t think they even thought of that one when they constructed the bible. Let us make sure after the SHTF those we arrest who are responsible for fracking are made to drink frack water and frack water only, just as the bankers we arrest are given money to eat, and money only. Maybe then they’ll realize just how much they took the piss.
FRACK BABY FRACK
Well i’m against Fracking! – but i think they should open a well up next to this guys house, and then we can see how it effect him and his family
There is a place in the biblical book of Revelations that mentions the cities of the earth being destroyed by apparently a huge earthquake. Recently, numerous quakes have been appearing in parts of the USA that normally did not have quake problems. This could all be tied together and maybe also with the tremendous amount of oil that has been pumped out of the ground over many years’ time.
The oil likely acted like a sort of “water bed”, underground, adding a bit of stability & support even though it was fluid. As if is pulled out and fracking adds to the destabililizing of the underground rock, the earth will probably begin to shift more — hence, the many small quakes in odd places. What happens when it gets extreme could be the ending sceneario mentioned in the bible, an apocolyptic, worldwide quake of series of quakes as the surface rock resettles after much strain on the lower levels that have had their fluid support & rock “membranes” cracked to pieces. This needs to be addressed.