Exxon CEO: Embrace Fracking, But Not Near My Ranch...

why? did the world a big favour with this

So no one can read anything but a misleading headline.., as per usual.

I wouldn't expect this sort of misleading thread from you, I'm surprised.

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whats misleading - that he fears his ranch will be worth less due to fracking in his neighbourhood that requires a water tower?

from the article::::::::

To be fair, Silverstein noted, the lawsuit Tillerson and his neighbors filed doesn't concern itself too much with the larger implications of natural gas drilling. Mostly, the plaintiffs just want to talk about how a 160-foot water tower is too big and ugly to fit in wealthy, attractive places like Bartonville.

Though Tillerson is clearly against dysfunctional fracking regulation, the lawsuit charges, "This monstrosity will mock the purpose of the Bartonville zoning ordinance."

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so that means it would fit better in poorer areas where the people dont have money to sue companies like Exxon?

It means only what it means - a lawsuit was filed to stop the construction of a structure that violates zoning ordinances. What is inferred is an agenda driven fantasy.

exactly

poor deserve it, as per the common mentality

the poor children too

i mean, non-wealthy children.

It appears the lawsuit is filed against the town, not Exxon. It doesn't require a whole lot of resources/capital to file a suit. + elite neighboorhoods filled with rich people push their agendas, that's what rich people do. Just like a wealthy neighbor hood wouldn't want a pumpjack spoiling their views either



And it's not only that. Here in Los Angeles a neighborhood sued the city to stop the city/county from replacing a freeway overpass because the 2 year long project would sully their views of the landscape, including the dang freeway the overpass crossed.

If you can't trust Dick "WMD" Cheney, who can you trust (psst, buddy, wanna buy a war?)...

There are numerous organizations for people to get active locally to stop fracking:

National Resources Defense Council

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/wat...action-center/

http://www.stopfrackingnow.com/



ADG

In other news I heard that the CEO's of solar companies don't want the factory that builds solar panels next to their nice houses either. The CEO of Apple doesn't want the Chinese factory that builds IPhones next to his nice mansion...etc.

I know the point that the "anti-fracking" people are trying to make. But in reality, nobody wants to have a nasty work environment near their houses. Nobody. Doesn't matter what you do (unless it's porn or some other home/office thing).

The whole point of working your whole life to have a nice home is that it's...nice.

you're going to kill these guys liberal woodys

Dick Cheney's company did not invent fracking. George Mitchell via his company, Mitchell Energy, invented fracking.

I won't get into all the incorrections the quote you posted has, I will say fracking is here to stay and it will only expand. Those trying to stop it would be better served trying to get better regulations for it.

That will never happen. All things ultimately circle back to Bush being evil, Iraq, class warfare or racist republicans. When you have a scat fetish, thinking about any of your favorite turds can keep you hard..

Mark Prince would have posted this, which I sure thought it would be when I read the thread title and was surprised to see it wasn't.
He's too busy with his Apple fanboys thread!

Hair splitting time again?

From Halliburton.com:

From the American Society of Mechanical Engineering:

George Mitchell, who died recently at 94, is often credited as the Father of Fracking, since his company made the hydrafrac process economically feasible.

The larger, significantly more important issue than who invented fracking, is regulation.

You support fracking, so I take it you may be aware of what is known as the "Halliburton Loophole"; for the benefit of those unaware, from Scientific American:

From the New York Times:

Even George Mitchell, shortly before he died, indicated that more regulation of fracking is required:

For those who want to learn more about the dangers of fracking, what the controversy is about, and what can be done about it, I recommend checking out "Gasland: The Movie", and the website:



http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/take-...hting-fracking





ADG

my point regarding fracking is that toxic fluids are pumped into the ground and no one can foresee the long term effects - especially not on ground water

eventually you are poisoning your future water supply - and all that so you can drive V8 and have AC everywhere

to be honest - i love animals but i rather have a couple birds flying into a windmill than that

I appreciate your idealism, ADG, but I'm on the side that will win.
Fracking is increasing exponentially across the US and the world and nothing will stop that.

Again, people like you would be much better served by trying to get proper regulations and processes such as waterless fracking requirements applied to the technology rather than trying to put the genie back in the bottle.




Indeed!

Or more likely scenario is they did not want fracking so went after it in a manner that didn't address the actual fracking.

Zoning.. Yeah ok that's the reason they are fighting this

politics again never quits

I didn't realize Cheney was that old!

I'm not sure of this...but aren't there already all kinds of toxic stuff underground naturally already?

It just seems like everytime something happens that is hopeful for mankind...the left take a shit on it.

When I was in highschool in the 1970's we were told that the world's oil supply would be depleted within 20 years. And then they doubled down on that by telling us that greenhouse gases were going to cause another Ice Age.

When new oil reserves were being found as technology improved to find and get them...they changed the story to acid rain in the 1980's. We were all doomed again.

When that didn't happen. The "Ice Age" became "Global Warming".

Apparently the global temps have stopped rising the last couple of years. So now "Global Warming" became "Climate Change".
And oil is so expensive that gas was costing us an arm and a leg. And the left cheered!

Then...fracking technology is introduced. Suddenly the economy in the places with fracking is taking off and people are making great money. The U.S. is now the number one oil producing country in the world and scientists are saying that the U.S. may have the largest oil deposits ANYWHERE.

And the left is going berserk over that. Immediately...they put out the "Gasland" movie which isn't a real study. It's a movie where they came into it with a preconceived agenda and then proceeded to "prove" it.

As just an ordinary guy living here in the U.S., it sure does seem that something is very damn fishy about the way the left is so hysterical and exaggerates shit and changes their story every decade or so.

I too, would LOVE to have a solar car, solar home, etc.
Not for the environment (though I do wish it were only for that noble cause)...but because I'm sick of paying for energy use.

And I'm sick of paying for the left to artificially keep gas and oil prices high & discourage new technologies that could make gas and oil plentiful. It's costing all of us in high costs for food, goods...hell EVERYTHING because everything has to be transported.

I'm very, very suspicious of the people who are "against" fracking right out of the gate. They didn't even hesitate to condemn it before it had even started.

And those organizations and their like-minded brethren have been WRONG over and over since the 1970's.

But just in case they are right for the first time...I'm gonna take a "wait and see" approach. Right now I'm leaning toward more jobs, a booming economy, energy independence.