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Anyone ever gone toe to toe w/ BIG BUSINESS?
Well, has anyone here danced with a large firm or corporation?
Reason I'm asking is that Exxon Mobile owns 10acres of land RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO MY PARENTS HOUSE. As in, you look out the window when eating breakfast/lunch/dinner and bang, you are looking at a park/forest. Well, they are selling that land to a shady developer...that is looking to make big $! Which means, he wants to stick in very many, very small, very low budget homes in there. Which will devastate the value of our home as well a majority of our subdivision. Exxon has been a good neighbor even since we moved in. The land was PROMISSED (verbally, not written) that it was to STAY a drill site... which they never used.... just kept drilling rights to and kept it a park for our subdivision. I grew up in that park and have a hell of a lot of memories of it. That park is one of the LAST green areas in Clear Lake! Everything else has been turned into a concrete jungle! We are looking into legal option...but suing Exxon is no easy task! Other options include letters to the Executives.... but who knows how much that will impact them...or if they will even read them. Exxon recently received an award for preserving green space aka. Wildlife on April 22, 2004. They made a contractual agreement to sell their 10 acres of green/wildlife land to get mowed down next to our house on April 21, 2004! How that could happen in beyond me!
Do any of you have any suggestions? Time is running out and Exxon and the developer want to hurry up and finalize the sale (to sweep it under the table). We have contacted local media, but we don't know how well they will project our image to Exxon and to the public...or if they will back us at all. What can we do to make ourselves heard? Thanks for taking the time to read this and any suggestions would be appreciated!
Well, has anyone here danced with a large firm or corporation?
Reason I'm asking is that Exxon Mobile owns 10acres of land RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO MY PARENTS HOUSE. As in, you look out the window when eating breakfast/lunch/dinner and bang, you are looking at a park/forest. Well, they are selling that land to a shady developer...that is looking to make big $! Which means, he wants to stick in very many, very small, very low budget homes in there. Which will devastate the value of our home as well a majority of our subdivision. Exxon has been a good neighbor even since we moved in. The land was PROMISSED (verbally, not written) that it was to STAY a drill site... which they never used.... just kept drilling rights to and kept it a park for our subdivision. I grew up in that park and have a hell of a lot of memories of it. That park is one of the LAST green areas in Clear Lake! Everything else has been turned into a concrete jungle! We are looking into legal option...but suing Exxon is no easy task! Other options include letters to the Executives.... but who knows how much that will impact them...or if they will even read them. Exxon recently received an award for preserving green space aka. Wildlife on April 22, 2004. They made a contractual agreement to sell their 10 acres of green/wildlife land to get mowed down next to our house on April 21, 2004! How that could happen in beyond me!
Do any of you have any suggestions? Time is running out and Exxon and the developer want to hurry up and finalize the sale (to sweep it under the table). We have contacted local media, but we don't know how well they will project our image to Exxon and to the public...or if they will back us at all. What can we do to make ourselves heard? Thanks for taking the time to read this and any suggestions would be appreciated!