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There are viable alternatives to the plant which would assure the MASCO institutions of a reliable supply of steam and chilled water. Any suggestion that the proposed plant is necessary to assure the MASCO institutions of a reliable supply of electricity is absolutely untrue. Edison is presently supplying and has for many years supplied substantially all the electric requirements of the MASCO institutions on a highly reliable basis. In fact, over many years Edison's record of reliability has been 99.99 per cent. If they continue to purchase their electricity from Edison, Edison is ready, willing and able to continue...
...scheme of new towns and transportation corridors in South America's five-nation River Plate Basin. In the U.S., he laid out a 2,500-acre urban-renewal project in Philadelphia. As part of a 1965 projection of greater Detroit's future growth-commissioned by the Detroit Edison Co.-he warned that middle-class families were abandoning the center city "at a rate of two yards a day, including weekends...
...Edison there is another type of survival at stake. The company, already beleagured by tax problems with city, will take a major loss if it loses the MASCO institution's account. Edison is also jealous of the tax package MASCO may get it the deal goes through. That package would requred the institutions to pay about $1.1 million yearly, while Edison claims it would pay about $5 million in taxes on the delivered power...
...University has the expertise to make an informed argument as to the benefits of its total energy power plant. And it has an depth plan which promises to supply the hospitals with power by 1978, the last year the institutions claim they can operate under the existing system. Although Edison has a joint plan that could do the same, it is apparent that the community groups challenging the Harvard MASCO plant would not take kindly to an Edison plan either...
...environmental impact laws provide an excellent means for the opposition small or large, to defeat the project by tying it up in the courts. Edison has already gone on record saying it will file suit if MASCO receives its project approval. The battle may go on for so long that the institutions would again settle for compromise, It is odd that a decision to build or not to build should be settled in the courts, when judges have the least amount of expertise in terms of environmental danger. But the environmental laws give them that power...