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...total cost of the plant "depends on when the diesels are installed." Given the DEQE's record for delays and the fact that the University may soon by forced to go to court--a process that would add at least two or three years to the project--the MATEP controversy could go on forever. In inflation continues to run in double digits, it is not inconceivable that the project will eventually end up costing the University ten times what it originally...
...year started brightly for the people in charge of the controversial Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) but proceeded to get dimmer and dimmer...
Community fears over the plant's allegedly dangerous emissions continued to plague efforts to install the diesel engines which MATEP needs in order to be cost- and energy-efficient. Worse yet, cost of the cogeneration plant--slated to provide chilled water, steam and electricity to 13 institutions in Harvard's medical area--continued to balloon from a 1976 estimate of $40 million to almost $200 million this year...
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...