No Fracking in our 'Hood, Dick Armey & ExxonMobil CEO Say

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DENTON, Texas (CN) - Exxon Mobil's CEO and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey are plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to stop construction of a water tower that will block their views - and be used to supply nearby fracking operations.
Armey, Exxon chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson and several of their neighbors sued the Bartonville Water Supply Corp., a suburban Dallas water utility, to stop construction of a 160-foot water tower near their luxury homes.
In the lawsuit in Denton County Court, Tillerson claims to own a $5 million horse ranch near the tower site, with "homes, barns, and a state of the art horse training facility."
Armey, a Republican, describes his home as a "78-acre homestead" worth more than $2 million. The nine other plaintiffs claim each of their homes is worth $1 million to $1.9 million.
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http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/02/24/65569.htm

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1. Water tower suit involving Exxon's CEO prompts a fracking fracas

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/02/24/3496444/water-tower-suit-involving-exxons.html

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3. Who is going to pay to truck in water to those horses on the ranch?

A water tower is not pastoral and it will suck up all the spring water or shallow ground water for the ranch house, ranch lawn watering and the livestock. These are peasant's problems.

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2. Never a problem till it turns up in their backyard

Sure, go frack, spill, destroy, pollute and suck up all the ground water - but don't you dare do it in *my* backyard.

Assholes.

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4. That's exactly where they should be built. You profit from it, you look at it.