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Champion says he regrets the time it took to approve the plant and points to poor project management and government indecision as major factors in MATEP’s demise...
...says the University’s administration initially hired a firm to design and construct the plant and another group to oversee the job—a watchdog for the project...
...most. He says a Harvard team from the School of Public Health investigated the health and environmental risks of the project before it was begun, and that the government devoted years of research only to conclude exactly what Harvard had discovered at the outset—that the plant was safe...
...says because Harvard began construction of MATEP and bought the diesel generators before it had been granted governmental permission, it made it “politically impossible to deny the plant its permit...
...They used their economic and political muscle to push the project through by beginning to construct the plant without a permit and by putting up a stack, which was enormously expensive,” Partan says. “They also purchased the diesel generators before they were licensed to construct and operate the plant. What this did for them was ensure that this plant would be built...