Sounds like what Stratford Ontario citizens were up against in fighting a secret deal to bring a Chinese glass factory to town.
We already have a giant banking data centre here drawing water for cooling, along with many high tech auto supply firms and a growing population - all reliant on an aquifer whose health and sustainability rarely & barely receive mention.
A few years ago, our council was voted “most secretive” in #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/xinyi-float-glass-stratford-1.5915965
@gerrymcgovern
And we do well to bear in mind it never ends; the fight is never over with a civic leadership so divorced from the community’s overall interest and stake in things:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/stratford-ban-city-hall-1.7196575