The story of GCT’s [Groupe Chimique Tunisien] fertilizer factory in Gabes shows the challenges newly democratic governments encounter as they face a newly empowered public that is demanding both job creation and an end to the fouling of their local environment...GCT may say it's going green, but it also must contend with costly demands to create jobs, a citizenry newly capable of blocking projects they dislike, a free flow of information about pollution and its risks to health, soil, and water, and the prospect that the government that emerges from Tunisia’s first regular democratic elections may actually enforce environmental regulations. The toughest reconciliation GCT faces may be the one that it has to make with its changed political environment.