Word: nomatep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They have vivid interpretations of Weiss's recommendation. According to Brookline selectman Zvi Sesling, Weiss was saying that "Harvard can do something that nobody else can do--legally kill four people." According to Louis Horwitz, chairman of the seven-year-old Neighborhood Organizations Mobilized Against the Total Energy Plant (NOMATEP), "That's sick. I don't know of any country other than Nazi Germany that is able to put a price on human life." And according to Brookline lawyer Daniel G. Partan, "When stripped of its technicalities, the bold fact remains that we shouldn't let Harvard do what they...
Regardless of the court's ruling, the opposition movement has begun to shift to a watch-dog stance, accepting an operating plant as a reality but refusing to believe that it will be safe. Dr. John G. Hermos, co-chairman of the NOMATEP coalition, said recently. Hermos added that his group will mount a new campaign of monitoring pollution levels in amassing related data in hopes of pressuring state authorities to enact new restrictions on the plant...
...upcoming work schedule will not be without another spate of community protests. But despite the inevitable symbolic display the NOMATEP coalition shows signs of cracking. The group which originally claimed to represent thousands of concerned citizens and to speak for more than 100 organizations nationwide still packs a living room on occasion, but many members say the fight has been long and frustrating, with no satisfying results. They feel their efforts won only a little extra time before health catastrophe. "What we were trying to do was prove this is a harmful thing before the damage," coalition member Charlotte Ploss...
Harvard should act more immediately to repair its tremendously strained relations with disgruntled residents. The NOMATEP coalition is embattled. It also owes, by some estimates, several thousand dollars for various legal defenses. But even those who are most resigned to MATEP's operation still bear severe resentment toward Harvard and its clumsy, inconsiderate and heavy-handed fight for MATEP...
...health hazards are likely would unleash louder community furor than ever. The area would again be the courtroom, but the coalition would be fighting for lives, not maneuvering for delays. Suggestions of health dangers would also probably call to action the many national and international health groups with which NOMATEP has always been loosely connected, but which never lent it tangible political support...