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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lashman has been saddled with the Medical Area Total Energy Plant--known to those who care as MATEP. Once upon a time, Harvard had a brilliant idea: build the largest co-generation plant in America to provide power for Harvard's medical schools and 13 other area institutions. Back then, they figured it would cost about $40 million. And they counted on large savings in oil that MATEP would pass on to its Harvard affiliates...
...DEQE, charged with looking after what's in Massachusetts air, held a very long, very technical and suffocatingly boring set of hearings. After days of testimony, a DEQE hearing officer had heard enough. She ruled against MATEP. Costs for the power plant skyrocketed, and Harvard officials began to sweat...
...PROPOSALS MADE almost nobody happy. MATEP is unhappy because it thinks the 200 limit is absurd. While Lashman says the plant can meet the "stringent conditions," as he labels them, it can only do so by sacrificing cost and energy efficiency. Harvard has already invested almost $175 million in what is beginning to look like a white elephant...
Since the publication of his book, Gofman has brought his concept of nuclear "murder" to the trial of protestors who scaled a fence at the Rancho Seco plant in California. Swayed by Gofman's testimony, the jury acquitted one defendant on the grounds that he had reason to believe his crime was necessary to prevent a substantial and immediate danger to life and property...
...food, supplies and money to keep the occupation going. We need people to join the occupation to replace those who will have to leave. And we need leafletters and canvassers to explain the nature of our action to others, and to join in a mass unobtrusive picket at the plant site gates Monday morning...