Adjacent, ultra water intensive, non-data center project. The project is taking place on property owned by the city (small town < 3k people), but well outside city limits, out in the township. Project is on behalf of a megacorp the city is courting, and the project affects some hundreds of non-city, township residents (and potentially everyone who draws water from the same aquifer (which is, uh, a lot of people)).

Anyways, city hosts open meeting AFTER project has started and hundreds of township wells have dried up.

Meeting room lined with city cops. City project manager: “everything is fine and if I hear anymore yelling you’ll all be arrested. You should be grateful we’re even having this meeting because legally we don’t have to because you’re not citizens of the city! The fact that you all suddenly don’t have running water has nothing to do with us, and the fact that your well pumps are filled with [redacted for anonymity purposes] has absolutely nothing to do with us either! Everything is fine. Go fuck yourselves!”

Animals who’ve drank water from nearby wells have died, plants have died, and it’s important to note that no city residents are affected because they’re on municipal water. ugh there’s a lot more to this story but I can’t share it here.

TLDR: “YOU WILL BE ARRESTED FOR BEING OPPRESSED AND YOU WILL BE GRATEFUL FOR IT”