Word: dieselization
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...Harvard had set out to construct MATEP, ordering the six diesel engines necessary to run the plant, storing them in a South Boston warehouse and launching construction on the 315 ft. smokestack...
NOMATEP, a group created to oppose the project that claimed to represent over 100 community organizations, argued that the nitrous oxides emitted by diesel engines would eventually cause lung cancer in those who lived in the area...
Meanwhile, Harvard had begun to move the diesel engines into their ultimate location, where local resident protesters stood with black balloons in hand—several were arrested...
...says because Harvard began construction of MATEP and bought the diesel generators before it had been granted governmental permission, it made it “politically impossible to deny the plant its permit...
...They used their economic and political muscle to push the project through by beginning to construct the plant without a permit and by putting up a stack, which was enormously expensive,” Partan says. “They also purchased the diesel generators before they were licensed to construct and operate the plant. What this did for them was ensure that this plant would be built...