To add, this Video in German from last March: https://www.zdf.de/politik/frontal-21/dokumentation-turbo-tempo-tesla-elon-musk-in-brandenburg-108.htmlhttps://ww

To add, this Video in German from last March: https://www.zdf.de/politik/frontal-21/dokumentation-turbo-tempo-tesla-elon-musk-in-brandenburg-108.htmlhttps://www.zdf.de/politik/frontal-21/dokumentation-turbo-tempo-tesla-elon-musk-in-brandenburg-108.html https://www.zdf.de/politik/frontal-21/dokumentation-turbo-te... It describes how Tesla goes on building things without permits, on a protected area that provides drinking water to the region (“Trinkwasserschutzgebiet”), which they of course chose because they want that water, then proceeded to bury poles [“Pfähle”] going all the way to the groundwater, which is explicitly forbidden. That parts starts at 23:21″, but this video player does not let me link to that point directly. So they start putting the poles there, illegally, then the regional economy minister comes saying that he talked sternly with them, and that they will have to pay a fine, says “I believe they have learned their lesson”, but later they just got a waiver from the environmental regulations and put all 560 poles in place. There is a fight between different parts of the local government, with the economy minister courting Tesla, and the environment minister resisting the pressure to just let them do whatever they want. So yes, it seems that this is not an isolated incident, but a pattern of behavior by Tesla, enabled by part of the local government. Edit: copy of the video in YouTube, where you can use the automatic translation to English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQa3uW3qBgo&t=23m21s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQa3uW3qBgo&t=23m21s Edit2: that attitude is quite a contrast with how hard Elon Musk is kowtowing to the CCP these days: https://youtu.be/oQ4Xqki6VqQ?t=3126 https://youtu.be/oQ4Xqki6VqQ?t=3126