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State officials called capitol police to the offices of the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) Wednesday after community opponents of the Harvard-backed Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) disrupted a scheduled conference...
...Brien admits that the total cost of the plant "depends on when the diesels are installed." Given the DEQE's record for delays and the fact that the University may soon by forced to go to court--a process that would add at least two or three years to the project--the MATEP controversy could go on forever. In inflation continues to run in double digits, it is not inconceivable that the project will eventually end up costing the University ten times what it originally...
After four years of hemming and hawing, the staff of the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) this fall finally recommended that MATEP be allowed to install the precious diesel engines. Earlier rulings had gone against the Harvard-supported plan and L. Edward Lashman, the University's director of external projects, hailed the event as "the first step in a chain of events that means we can get the diesel...
Lashman, unfortunately, hadn't gotten his signals straight with the higher-ups at the DEQE, who spent the next six months studying and reconsidering the MATEP proposal to operate within strict environmental guidelines. At first, DEQE deputy commissioner David Fierra--the man who was supposed to make the final decision on the diesels--agreed with the DEQE general counsel that the plant be given a chance to submit a new proposal...
...months later, the agency's general counsel reminded Fierra that the proposal was still sitting on his desk. In late April, about 30 residents "stopped being pleasant" and sat in on the DEQE offices downtown and marched to the State House to ask for new hearings on the plant...