I work for an oil and gas producer in WA and it is absolutely shocking to me how blatant is the corruption of state politics. WA state politics is a failed sta

I work for an oil and gas producer in WA and it is absolutely shocking to me how blatant is the corruption of state politics. WA state politics is a failed state, which is 100% captured by resource companies. When the WA EPA advised (not decided - advised, which is their remit) that state government environmental approvals should consider the CO2 emissions of the projects under approval... The resource companies got the state premier to phone the head of the EPA and instruct him to cancel the advice immediately. So the WA EPA may as well not exist. This was all confirmed to have happened after the fact (although of course we all knew at the time). The newspapers were unanimously on the side of the resource companies. WA is a beautiful, prosperous banana republic.