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Vigeland's chapter on the Medical Area Total Energy Plant, the $350 million, carcinogenic disaster every Harvard official disclaims responsibility for, consists largely of an account of how Harvard Magazine wrote its article about MATEP...
...MATEP project, which was initiated in 1974, was constructed over a seven-year period and cost more than nine times the original estimates. Its purpose is to provide cheap, reliable energy to the medical area. Harvard officials call it the most efficient diesel-powered energy plant in the world...
...opponents of MATEP argued that it should not be permitted to operate because the state environmental agencydetermined that four extra deaths due to lungcancer could result over the projected 40 yearlife of the plant...
...attorney representing MATEP, Vernon Vance,echoed the state's arguments. He added that thefour deaths are not necessarily likely nor verysignificant considering current pollution levels.The DEQE made a proper "risk assessment," Vancesaid...
...inappropriate, inconsistent andunlawful" for the DEQE to make a decision bycomparing the MATEP emissions to pollution fromother existing sources, disregarding the addedthreat to human life, Bracken said