Word: deqe
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MATEP, designed to provide chilled water, steam heat and electicity to 13 institutions in the medical area, needs the diesels to be cost-and energy-efficient. But community fears of harmful levels of nitrogen dioxide and carcinogenic emissions have blocked DEQE approval for four years...
Willard R. Pope '63, general counsel for the DEQE, said last week Fierra could decide simply to review the data himself, or conceivably open the plan to more debate in open hearings...
Controversy has followed MATEP plans through several hearings and court decisions in the past four years. Last month the staff of the DEQE finally approved a compromise plan for the plant, and recommended David A. Fierra, deputy commissioner of DEQE, give the go-ahead to installing the diesels...
...There are enough doubts that certainly warrant a delay in the approval. It was a closed-door decision; the DEQE in effect struck a deal with Harvard," he said...
Willard R. Pope '63, general counsel to DEQE, said yesterday, "I think we have been following a fair procedure and our actions are based on the evidence that was developed in those hearings and not something that was done secretly as they seem to think...