From: EcoNews
As 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.
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| Rex Tillerson is ExxonMobil’s CEO. Photo credit: Wikipedia Commons |
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.
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 water tower,
owned by Cross Timbers Water Supply Corporation, “will sell water to
oil and gas explorers for fracing [sic] shale formations leading to
traffic with heavy trucks on FM 407, creating a noise nuisance and
traffic hazards,” the suit says.
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