Word: dieselization
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COMMUNITY OPPOSITION to Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) began even before ground was broken at the corner of Boston's Brookline Ave and Francis St. in 1976. Fearing community disruption and health hazards stemming from diesel exhaust, residents of the middle-and lower-income towns surrounding the site took action. They vowed to fight every step of the way the diesel plant designed to fill all the energy needs of Harvard's medical schools and facilities...
...nearly five years the battles went to the underdog. Against invisible odds, the small but scrappy NOMATEP coalition--lacking legal and technical expertise--repeatedly grabbed the ear and approval of judges and regulators. Harvard was repeatedly told to prove that the diesel engines for the plant--which would be the largest of its kind in North America--would not choke Boston. To Harvard's dismay, the hearings triggered a spiral of unforeseen delays and escalating costs...
...institutions. Contracts covering utility use have been signed with user and the old plant which previously provided steam and chilled water has been closed and demolished. During the year, the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering of the Common wealth of Massachusetts gave its approval for construction of electricity. The diesel generators have been moved to the Plant and final installation and testing of these engines and of them components of the Plant related to the generations of electricity is now underway...
...appeals court rejected all of the arguments by the MATEP opponents, who have fought the plant, claiming that the diesel engines when operating will emit unsafe leves of nitrous oxides...
...decision marked another in a string of MATEP regulatory and court victories begun in November 1980 when, after several years of haggling, the state's Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) approved installation of the plant't six diesel engines under 32 operating conditions, aimed at preventing dangerous levels of diesel exhaust...