by Joeb in Development and Zoning, Environment and Open Space, Public Health & Safety
Posted on August 10, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Last Modified on January 25, 2009 at 8:12 pm
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Isn’t it odd that there has been no discussion in Somerville at all about the Cambridge Biolab 3, pending in East Cambridge?? The requirements for transporting its contents mandate “no tunnels” so everything that goes to Logan goes through Somerville. And everything is virtually all that’s in the Biolab 4 except fissionable materials!
Here is the plan for the Biolab 3 in Livermore (https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/243862.pdf). It outlines a small, one-room laboratory. In contrast, Alexander development is requesting an open license that could use any or many of their several hundred parcels in East Cambridge, Mid Cambridge, Cambridgeport, and Areas 3 and 4 in Cambridge for the same level of testing! They’ve bought off East End House by offering a new building. But there is a growing “dialog” – more shock and dismay than shock and awe – all over Cambridge that such a scheme could slide through a compliant Council and retiring City Manager.
But that is THEIR problem. Ours is that everything to and from would go through here. And nobody seems to either know nor care. THAT is a problem I would have thought Somerville Voices could at least generate some discussion about.
For reference, the Level 4 lab was challenged by MIT scientists, perhaps with this Level 3 option as their incentive; and BOTH would have awful substances travel via Somerville streets to their facilities. That requires either blocked streets – ala railroad blocks – or dedicated passage – ala Silver Line traffic patterns. And, by law, jurisdictions with 4.5 miles do have a voice, muted though it may be through this administraton.
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If anyone from Somerville is interested in speaking to a reporter about this proposed lab please contact nashtc@gmail
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