Plymouth: TL Edwards asphalt/concrete batching and mining site violates the law says group
February 22, 2023: CLWC files request for enforcement of Zoning Bylaw.
Kingston: PROJECT CANCELLED! Thorndike Development withdraws concept plans for Sacred Heart school revealed in January 2023
Route 80 in Kingston proposed for 642 units at the Sacred Heart. Zoning change needed, drinking water a major issue. Open space, drinking water threatened.
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” […]
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.
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.
Don’t Pillage Plymouth!
Are you concerned about the destruction of Plymouth by massive development projects? Are Town officials protecting our drinking water? Are your concerns ignored by the Selectboard, Planning Board, ZBA and […]
Plymouth: AD Makepeace mining operation under the ruse of cranberry agriculture exposed
AD Makepeace blatantly abuses the process for obtaining permits under the Mass Endangered Species Act State officials look the other way, pretend Plymouth mining operations are “cranberry agriculture” Hundreds of […]
Carver: Town, State Allow Commercial Mining in Sole Source Aquifer on Meadow Street
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 […]
Carver Whistleblowers: Alex Johnson Cranberry, Maki – G. Lopes conduct mining under ruse of cranberry agriculture
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 […]