He doesn’t want the noise to disturb his horses
Thanks to Your name’s not Bruce for this:
ExxonMobil CEO Doesn’t Want a Fracking Operation Near His Backyard
That was February 2014, so the Exxon CEO was Rex Tillerson, now pretending to be “Secretary of State.”
one of the opponents of a fracking project in Denton County is Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil—a company that proudly touts fracking as an essential part of American energy development. As WFAA.com reports:
Rex Tillerson has joined a lawsuit to stop construction of a water tower near his estate on Dove Creek Road. That water would be used in fracking, a process to drill oil and gas.
Tillerson even appeared at a Bartonville Town Council meeting to speak against it last November, saying that he and his wife moved to the area for its rural lifestyle. Tillerson told the Council that he had invested millions of dollars into their property to turn it into a cutting horse facility.
To be clear, Tillerson’s stated reasons for the suit that would prevent the fracking water tower from being built aren’t environmental, but cultural: He doesn’t want the noise, traffic, or heavy trucks to disturb his horses or lower his property values.
No doubt. Similarly, Trump builds sea walls next to his coastal golf courses because he doesn’t want the rise in sea level to flood his golf courses or lower his property values. But everyone else? Oh well fuck them, they’re all losers.
At the very least, the sort of NIMBYism involved in the CEO of a company that practices fracking and touts its benefits suing to prevent it from happening near his own house isn’t a good look. Tillerson may enjoy his rural lifestyle, but so do many of the people who live near the sites where his company practices hydraulic fracturing; he may value the quiet life he lives out in Bartonville, but there are a lot of people whose quiet lives have been disturbed by projects funded by Exxon.
Yes but they’re looooooooooooooooooosers. This is dog eat dog America.
Now that’s just sadistic! Unless it was ‘cutting-edge’ they were going for.
Cutting horses are trained to separate cattle out from the herd.
Hahaha :-)
I just realised that wasn’t a joke, but it still sounds funny; you’d think they’d train the cowboys, but the horses must be easier to teach.
And I’m tired. G’night.
Yeah the arcana of cattle herding are over my head, but it’s a thing. Why Rex Tillerson would want to specialize in it I can’t begin to fathom.
‘cos he’s a macho cowboy! I mean he rides a Hog too. As a rider of motorcycles (not Harley’s – I’m more of a sport-tourer kind of guy), I can’t tell you the strength of eye roll that rich folk playing at being bikers earn from other riders. Especially when they go out all dressed up in factory purchased gangster gear.
Reminds me of this interview with a Fox liar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppNIXhaBmLU
The entire interview is useful, but it 3:14 and on becomes incredibly revealing.
A good cutting horse is like a border collie, they don’t really need the human. They could do the cow-controlling without being told what to do.
but
I doubt they would bother if the human wasn’t sitting on their back yelling useless advice…