Conversations with a Hit Man

Re:Conversations with a Hit Man by genewitch on Thursday July 03, 2025 @01:31PM (#44457350)

As someone who lives here now, the corruption is still alive and well. We're - the citizens - currently fighting against having CO2 "pumped in via pipes" and injected into "geological formations". Every citizen in the state gets their water from a well. Injecting refuse "CO2" into the ground will contaminate our water supply; but as the person at the meeting i went to on Monday said, "When there's money involved the politicians stop thinking about the citizens."

I don't know. I don't really like it here, but my kid's family live here. And on the other side of the coin, where isn't there corruption?

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Re:Conversations with a Hit Man by akudha on Thursday July 03, 2025 @03:13PM (#44458280)

If there are humans somewhere, that place is going to have some level of corruption. I suppose a more practical way is to look at relative levels of corruption. Countries like Singapore, Norway etc have lower levels of corruption (at least according to various rankings)

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Re:Conversations with a Hit Man by giggyhack on Thursday July 03, 2025 @08:44PM (#44460295)

There are plenty of places outside of Louisiana with public stakeholder processes in place before some shenanigans like this happen. There may be some mild form of "corruption" however you define it, but my experience is that wealthy blue state politics is a little less shitty.

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Re:Conversations with a Hit Man by amy_petrik on Thursday July 03, 2025 @09:46PM (#44460502)

>Injecting refuse "CO2" into the ground will contaminate our water supply;

That sounds crooked as hell, sorry to hear. Far as I am concerned, the only person who carbonates my family's water is ME and maybe coca cola. This twisted, corrupted government bureaucrats taking kickbacks to make my drinking water carbonated, the insult of it all.

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