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...MATEP??€™s planners had not anticipated that its Boston and Brookline neighbors would voice such vehement opposition to the project. The residents were chiefly concerned that the project was environmentally harmful...
After 186 hours of oral testimony that led to 7,300 pages of transcript documents, the DEQE approved MATEP??€™s construction in November 1980, provided that Harvard follow 32 operating conditions, including the creation of stations to monitor the plant’s emissions...
...DEQE was only one in a series of hurdles the project had to clear. MATEP??€™s planners insisted that the plant be exempt from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pollution regulations because of Harvard’s non-profit status. In December 1980, Bok wrote to then-Massachusetts Gov. Edward J. King seeking exemption from the act, which was granted on a probationary basis...
...produce electricity—could not yet be turned on, pending a final ruling from the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) on the DEQE decision, which had been appealed once again by local activists. Because the plant was only partially operational, its co-generation cost savings remained unrealized as MATEP??€™s price tag swelled to $230 million...
...Bain says MATEP??€™s costs seemed larger in the 1970s and haven’t adversely affected the University...