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...MATEP: The $260 million Medical Area Total Energy Plant has been a costly thorn in Harvard's side ever since construction began six years ago on the project. Environmentalists and community residents have repeatedly tried, with some success, to close the plant. This summer, a state judge blocked MATEP from operating for at least several months. The reason, amazingly enough: The University had never checked to see if MATEP's diesel fumes were carcinogenic. Other state investigations found that Harvard had violated numerous testing procedures...
...MATEP saga has been a classic case of inconsiderate University behavior. Harvard has consistently refused to consult the concerned Brookline and Mission Hill residents who must live among its possibly toxic fumes. More brazenly, it has refused to test its plant for numerous health hazards, cockily denying serious health code violations that were later uncovered. Unless MATEP's management style changes drastically. Harvard should give up on this costly embarrassment...
...Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) has been nothing but trouble since construction began in 1976 on what was to be a low-cost power facility. The price tag has jumped from $50 million to about $260 million since then, and the University's most glaring financial bungle of all time was forced to cease testing this summer because it violated state environmental codes...
...before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The Court ruled that the State Department of Environmental Quality Engineering must reopen hearings on the University's application to operate the plant, which is located off Brookline Ave. in Boston. The hearings could last well into the winter, lawyers predict, perhaps delaying MATEP's official opening for another full year...
...While MATEP coughed and wheezed in Boston. Harvard raised another cloud of dust back home in Cambridge. The University undertook a massive renovation campaign that so far includes facelifts for two of the River Houses, refurbishing Sever Hall, rebuilding the football stadium, and knocking down Burr Hall to make way for a new wing of the Fogg Art Museum...