I have read the lawsuit. It has nothing at all to do with fracking. And here are comments from the lawyer who actually drafted the plaintiff's petition:
Tillerson is part of a lawsuit filed against a water company by several property owners, including former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, who live near the tower site in Bartonville, a community between Flower Mound and Argyle.
But its argument is quite a bit more nuanced than most of the Internet headlines, which zero in on one sentence in the lawsuit which warns that water could be sold for drilling operations and lead to heavy truck traffic. The suit’s main contention is that the tower will be an eyesore and hurt the value of the million-dollar properties around it.
Michael Whitten, a Denton attorney who represents Tillerson, Armey and the other landowners, said Monday that he wishes he’d been more careful drafting the language in the suit.
“This is not an anti-fracking lawsuit,” Whitten said. “Nothing could be further from the truth.”
Lloyd Hanson, the controller of Cross Timbers Water Supply Corp., the target of the lawsuit, doesn’t disagree. The new water tower is needed to meet growing residential and commercial demand in the area, he said, but the company hasn’t sold water to energy companies since about 2009, and even then sales were was minimal. And trucks do not draw water directly from a tower site.
It is a perfect example of you acting like the nanny in Gone With the Wind -- going into a panic because MSNBC is having a cow about something.
Take a fucking xanax man. |
