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...increasing--investment in the plant must be seen through to completion, the community groups say. "Harvard's made a mess of this. But they try to blame us and the state as obstructionists. Yet they were the ones that planned it poorly," Dr. John Hermos, co-chairman of the NOMATEP coalition, says...
...NOMATEP coalition, which claims to represent thousands of local residents and over 100 organizations, has fought construction of the plant from the beginning. And many of its members, like Brookline resident Charlotte Ploss, promise a continuing fight, despite MATEP's recent successes. "We can either stay and fight, or move. And I'm not moving," Ploss says...
MATEP, in short, is looking rather smug, and the NOMATEP coalition may be dwindling. According to one Harvard official, the coalition numbers no more than 50. "They claim to have the support of over 100 groups, but they don't even have 100 people," the official says. And Harvard spokesman Rosen notes, "One interesting fact about the NOMATEP coalition is that there's never been a national environmental or special interest group behind them. It hasn't been like Seabrook, for instance...
...vast majority oppose the plants. There is opposition and there is active opposition," Ploss says. She adds that while a core of between 12 and 30 attend meetings regularly, they represent at least 9000 residents strongly against the plant, as well as several nationwide organizations which support the movement. NOMATEP members say they were pleased with the crowds at the plant the first and last night the diesel engines were brought in. While Harvard officials estimate that there were about 100 and nearly 25 respectively, Ploss and others say there were many more, and that the numbers were impressive because...
...John A. Hermos, chairman of Brookline Citizens to Protect the Environment and a member of NOMATEP, said yesterday that the EPA classification of MATEP as a non-profit plant was "incorrect," but he added that "the real issue is the environment...