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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...
...Edward Lashman, director of external projects, said in a memo last week Fierra had not interpreted the plan's data correctly. He added that he will request Fierra reconsider the case before appealing the ruling through state Superior court...
...With the exception of this unresolved hot spot issue, Mr. Fierra has found that MATEP, in its entirety, would operate safely and would in no way endanger public health," Lashman said. "He has rejected all the arguments by plant opponents to the contrary," he added...
...Lashman said in December that if the power plant operates within the constraints set down by Fierra, it would lose between $1.5 and $2 million annually because of fuel inefficiency and backup energy costs...