Exxon’s Tillerson Speaks Out on Fracturing

摘要

As the largest natural gas producer in theUS, Exxon Mobil has a lot at stake in the de-bate about the growing use of hydraulic frac-turing. So Exxon Chief Executive Rex Tiller-son did not mince words when he addressedthe issue at the company’s annual sharehold-er meeting in Dallas on Wednesday.“There are risks [associated with fractur-ing] and I’m not trying to say that therearen’t. ... But there are a lot of pretty casual— to be kind — statements that are just sim-ply not backed up by facts,” Tillerson toldreporters after the meeting.