France must dig deep for a solution to the problem of buried toxic material | Guardian Weekly
▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/29/stocamine-toxic-waste-repository-france
Time is of the essence. Some of the galleries – 100km long in all – are subsiding under the pressure caused by neighbouring mine works. Ceilings have caved in, making it almost impossible to reach the containers, some of which may have ruptured. Others are corroding due to the heat.
“The longer we wait, the more difficult it will be to recover the containers,” says Yann Flory, the spokesperson for the Déstocamine collective
