PFAS & Solar Installations
PFAS are “forever chemicals”. This is a manmade chemical used in coating various products. It can enter our water supply and be ingested by humans. It has bee linked to […]
New Hampshire: 245 acres of forest threatened by NextEra’s Chariot Solar project
The Chariot Solar Project is a 50 megawatt project proposed by NextEra in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. NextEra, a huge energy corporation, proposes nine separate arrays spanning 265,000 acres of fields […]
Racial justice & sand mining: a Mashpee Wampanoag perspective
Save the Pine Barrens June 6, 2022 Hartman Deetz Racial Justice and Decolonization by Hartman Deetz Editor’s note: The Save the Pine Barrens campaign is working to protect the Atlantic coastal pine barrens in Massachusetts […]
Ecological effects of deforestation
Pierre Ibisch, Professor for Nature Conservation and Founding Director of the Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management discusses the ecological effects of clearcutting forests. Here in Southeast, Massachusetts, hundreds of […]
Wareham: Residents, Town fight back: Don’t Kill Fearing Hill!
Solar developer ConEdison proposes to clear-cut Pine Barrens forest, denude land for large ground mounted solar, batteries. Site located on Weweantic River, ancient Native American trails to be lost. Town’s […]
EdgeEffects Podcast from Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison on sand mining
What Happens in the Wake of Frac Sand’s Boom and Bust? May 26, 2022: This podcast focuses on sand mining for fracking in Wisconsin but it is just like what […]
AD Makepeace: State MEPA office rubber-stamps AD Makepeace environmental impact report – again
Continuing 15 years of complicity and turning a blind eye to AD Makepeace’s environmental destruction being done under the ruse of “smart growth” and “cranberry agriculture” on June 1, 2022 […]
AD Makepeace’s bait and switch on the “TMUD” of 6,500 acres in Plymouth, Carver and Wareham
Instead of smart growth and conservation as promised in 2008, Makepeace is doing industrial sand mining and large solar Where’s the land? And where’s the sand? Our state “Massachusetts Environmental […]
Carver: Cranberry Point: Siting Board Proceedings
In Massachusetts, siting board hearings concluded on 10/31/22 on PowerPlus Cranberry Point BESS storage system. The 150 MW project will be located in a residential neighborhood abutting cranberry bogs and over a sole source drinking water aquifer. Experts testified that CP's application was incomplete and did not have adequate protections for safety and prevention of air toxics in the event of a thermal runaway that will release toxic hydrofloruide gasses.
Protest against AD Makepeace greenwashing
May 4, 2022 Contact:Linden Jenkinslindajenkins177@yahoo.com606-986-8687 BOSTON, MA – Groups gathered outside Boston’s Westin Seaport Hotel today to protest the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) award of “Private Company Board […]