Carver: Edaville Railroad Site Proposed for 40B Housing
The long-time theme park, Edaville Railroad is proposed for a dense residential development under the state's 40B law. The land has a checkered past. What really happened there?
Cranberry Agriculture? Residential Subdivision? Business Park? Or sand and gravel mine?
Pulling back the curtain on the sand and gravel industry in Southeastern Massachusetts and the Town boards and officials complicit in the schemes - whether its "cranberry agriculture" or a "subdivision road" that requires leveling the town's highest hill the operation on Route 44 in Carver -- it is a scam. This exposes our drinking water to contamination, destroys our forests and poisons people with cancer-causing silica dust.
Carver: Jan. 25, 2023: Carver Earth Removal Committee extends Johnson Brothers Cranberry, Ryco sand and gravel mining operation to continue indefinitely despite violations, expired permits
In 2011, federal jury found Johnson violated Clean Water Act by destroying 46 acres of wetlands to allegedly build cranberry bogs Above: Jan. 25, 2023, Carver Earth Removal “public hearing” […]
Plymouth: What about that “Giant excavation site on Route 3?”
Why is are Plymouth Town officials, the Planning Board, ZBA and Planning Department going along with Scott Spencer's earth removal scam on Route 3? Who is benefitting from this? Not the Town and not our drinking water or environment.
Carver: Support Battery Safety Bylaw at Town Meeting June 4, 2024
Town Meeting in Carver is April 11, 2023. Citizen Petitions aim to protect drinking water, forest, and control large ground mounted industrial solar and battery storage.
Carver-Plymouth: Weston Franklin Marsh – Ryco Excavating mining operation continues under the ruse of cranberry agriculture
Craig & Gary Weston, part of the cranberry "Cosa Nostra" of Carver as they call themselves, are doing a massive strip mine under the false pretense of agriculture. In Jan. 2023, the Plymouth Planning Board joined the Plymouth ZBA in complicity in this exploitation of legal loopholes and solar subsidies. The Planning Board approved "floating solar" for the illegally created reservoir.
Wareham: 0 Route 25 Proposed Solar Site Threatens Pine Barrens Forest, Drinking Water and Way of Life
Wareham Planning Board asks tough questions of solar developer looking to clear cut 21 acres of forest and cover over a strip mine for a large ground mounted solar project. This has all the components of Solar Gone Wrong.
Plymouth: EJ Pontiff – PA Landers mining operation continues under the ruse of agriculture off Firehouse Road
Public hearing on STPB enforcement request: Monday March 20, 7 p.m. Plymouth Zoning Board of Appeals Does this look like “cranberry agriculture” or industrial sand and gravel mining? Above: Pontiff […]
Press Release: Jan. 18, 2023:
Court rules for protection of wetlands, water quality and against Borrego Solar and AD Makepeace in lawsuit challenging 65-acre ground mounted industrial solar project on rare Pine Barrens forest
Are cranberry growers falsely claiming “agricultural” use to evade taxes while conducting sand mining?
While extracting millions of dollars of sand and gravel, cranberry growers claim they are “farming” and the mining is “agriculture” These cranberry landowners enroll their land in the Massachusetts “Chapter […]