There's a new member here, fastNX, I think, from the Nissan forum who, if I remember correctly, somewhere in that forum states that he lives around the area, and the environmental picture depicted in that article is from the 70s or 80s and that the area is much cleaner since that plant cleaned up there act. If he's correct, then the article is majorly biased against hybrids, since 70s-80s there were no hybrids.

If this is correct, we need someone to verify this, since the implication in that article is way out of line. It doesnt state that because of the need for nickel in hybrids that caused the devastation and pollution, but it tries to make you to think that.

I dont know, but it seems that way to me.