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...before they could implement the plan, Bok decided to cancel the entire project. That final decision, according to one Fogg supporter, was based on "a psychological funk" created by persistent and exaggerated worries over the national economy and past construction failures such as the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), which exceeded original cost estimates of $50 million by about $180 million...
...They've lost so much money on MATEP that they can't contemplate losing any more," said James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts...
James Crawford, a Mission Hill resident and a member of the MHPC ad hoc committee that wants to reach a negotiated settlement with BWH, testified yesterday that MATEP's exhaust could create an obvious health hazard if it were directed toward the community. Crawford added that chemical damage could occur to buildings, specifically a local church that already suffers from industrial pollution...
William E. Hassan, acting president of BWH, said yesterday an environmental study completed by the firm of HMM Associates as well as approval of MATEP's operation by the Masschusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering should demonstrate that downwash is harmless. But Jerome Aaron, MHPC's attorney, questioned the rigor and method of both the private and state examinations...
Charlotte Ploss of Mission Hill anticipated in her testimony that BWH's payments in lieu of taxes on the new buildings would not reflect their actual value and social cost. After the hearings Ploss said BWH's payments would probably duplicate "the MATEP swindle" under which Harvard will annually pay Boston one-half of one per cent of the facility's value. Hassan refused to comment on the negotiations determining the size of BWH's payments...