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24 February 2014 By Christopher Swann

Rex Tillerson hands ammunition to anti-frackers by seeking to block a water tower to supply drillers near his opulent home. Buying $31 bln shale explorer XTO was the big bet of his tenure. Exxon may now struggle to convince the public to accept hydro-fracturing’s side effects.

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Rex Tillerson, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, has joined a lawsuit intended to block the construction of a water tower that would supply hydraulic fracturing operations near his Texas home.

The suit says the tower would create “a noise nuisance and traffic hazards” in part because it is connected to fracking – a drilling technique that enables oil and gas to be extracted from rock. A lawyer representing the group said that Tillerson’s main concern was that the value of his house would be harmed.

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