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That, in a nutshell, is what the Commonwealth's Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) will be deciding sometime this month. Do you okay Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), which has already cost the University $302 million--six times more than originally projected? Or do you decide that the risk of four people suffering lung cancer from nitrogen dioxide emissions is too great and therefore prevent the site from generating electricity? To put it more bluntly: are those hypothetical lives really worth $75 million apiece...
MATEP currently produces steam and air conditioning for the hospitals and electricity for the Brigham and Women's Hospital. It has only one more hurdle to cross before starting up the diesels. On August 24, a hearing officer appointed to make a recommendation to the DEQE ruled that although nitrogen dioxide emission from MATEP could potentially cause as many as four lung cancer deaths over the plant's 40-year operating life, that's not an "unreasonable" risk. In fact, according to hearing officer Ellyn R. Weiss, a Washington, D.C., environmental lawyer who has handled the MATEP case since...
Over the next two weeks, six additional testimonies are expected Lawyers for the MATEP opposition will call on four more witnesses and two DEQE officials will take the stand to give an assessment of the result of tests they compacted to determine the potential health hazards to the plant...
Hearing Officer Ellyn Weiss will report the findings of the hearings to the state's Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE). A final decision from DEQE may not come until late next year, officials predicted...
...DEQE inspection and testing of the first installed engine will probably begin in April, Wyatt said, adding that the entire review will take six to eight months...