For almost 2 years, Wareham Board of Selectmen has ignored unanimous Town Meeting vote for an investigation of unpermitted sand and gravel mining November 2022 letter gives Selectmen notice of […]
Town of Carver allows mining company and landowner to claim 12 year operation is “cranberry agriculture” G. Lopes Construction of Taunton excavating at least $6 million in sand and gravel […]
This page documents some of the Earth Removal Bylaw and permit violations at the illegal Maki-Lopes mining site on Meadow Street in Carver, Massachusetts. The landowner claims is is an […]
On December 14, 2022, the Plymouth Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) sided with Makepeace claiming that a 214-acre sand and gravel mine is a “agricultural project” ZBA allowed Makepeace to […]
This 214-acre strip mine is located in the heart of the Pine Barrens at the iconic, globally rare Frogfoot Brook. In 2010, state and Makepeace promised this site would be […]
June 10, 2024: The Wareham Planning Board denied site plan approval and special permit extensions for two solar proposals, one at 27 Charge Pond Road and the other at 150 […]
Large ground-mounted industrial solar projects have already destroyed over 4,000 acres of Massachusetts forests and farmland according to a recent Mass Audubon and Clark University study. Under the state’s climate […]
Called for changing state subsidies to avoid loss of forests, wetlands, Indigenous sites Revised state SMART solar regulations did nothing to improve th solar siting – forests, wetlands still being […]
Grassroots campaign calls on Governor Baker to put moratorium on state subsidies for large solar that cuts down forests, harms waterways and Indigenous sites. They deliver 1,400 petitions for smart solar siting in Massachusetts.
30 acres of farmland at two locations threatened by industrial solar Suburban town with precious little forest and farmland left targeted by industrial solar One lawsuit pending – why should […]
