Environment: Living, Dangerously, with Toxic Wastes

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No matter how carefully Casmalia Resources goes about its business, says Lachenmaier, the p.r. director, some of the people who live nearby will remain unhappy. "They have a provincial view of the situation," she says. "They don't want us to exist--and that's the bottom line." Toxic waste must go somewhere, she pleads. Why not here?

Which sounds reasonable. The site is remote. The geology is well charted. The facility has been designed to handle dangerous industrial poisons. But down in Casmalia, it still stinks.