One of the most amusing anecdotes I've seen first hand is big energy funding massive opposition to a transmission line from a huge dam on an adjacent grid... all that renewable hydro energy was all of a sudden bad because some trees would need trimmed to widen the transmission corridor for the lines. Psyop'd the population into a referendum against it multiple times over several iterations... same population pissed about having the highest electricity prices in the country

Can't make this shit up.