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A.D. Makepeace Expanding Massive Sand Mine In Environmental Justice Neighborhood in Carver MA
September 29, 2024
Plymouth: The Plymouth Foundation: A shadow government of land developers?
September 28, 2024
Carver: Pontiff-Ryco Excavating Site, 104 Tremont St.
August 7, 2024
Carver: Overview of AD Makepeace Co. Sand Trucking Hub: Read Custom Soils
May 23, 2024
CLWC tells Plymouth Building Department to reject Planning Board recommendation for a permit for the 71 Hedge’s Pond Road, Plymouth MA.
December 20, 2024
ROUTE 44 DEVELOPMENT LLC SEEKS STRIP MINE PERMIT
November 26, 2024
Wareham Residents: The Planning Board Wants to Hear from YOU!
November 21, 2024
The secretive Plymouth Foundation is a ‘shadow arm of town government’
November 4, 2024
Plymouth: PA Landers massive mining proposal for Cedarville area will level one of last remaining hills for about $50 million in sand
October 28, 2024
Private: Plymouth: PA Landers Requests 2 Million Cubic Yards of Sand and Gravel for New Massive Earth Removal Proposal
October 25, 2024
Plymouth Fall Town Meeting Article 17 Fact Sheet
October 18, 2024
Cranberry Country Corruption? 2024 Update: Carver ERC Chair Involved in Sand Mining, Trucking
October 14, 2024
Social Media
October 9, 2024
Podcasts
October 9, 2024
Plymouth: Plymouth Foundation land grabs, sand mining
September 25, 2024
Private: AD Makepeace Seeks Mine Expansion: Applies for Another 85 Acres for Sand Mining Operation off Federal Road, Carver
September 23, 2024
Carver: Fruit d’Or Cranberry seeks mining permit from ERC
September 6, 2024
Response to Gov. Healey: Is this really legal?
August 26, 2024
Plymouth: Just say NO to proposed sand mine on Cedarville Conservation Area
August 26, 2024
Press Release: Groups Ask Governor Healey for Moratorium on Sand Mining in Southeastern Massachusetts
August 21, 2024
Regional Water Plan: Planning for Abundance and Ecological Sustainability in Plymouth’s Water Supply
July 31, 2024
PRESS RELEASE: Sand Mining at Halifax’s Wampanoag Native American Site on Whaleback Ridge Draws Community Opposition
July 25, 2024
Open Forum: Protecting Our Land and Waters, July 16, 2024
July 22, 2024
Carver: Legal Efforts to Shut Down AD Makepeace Co. Sand Trucking Hub: Read Custom Soils
July 10, 2024
Plymouth Beach Sand Project: A Folly?
July 3, 2024
Carver: TAKE ACTION to Shut Down AD Makepeace Co. Sand Trucking Hub: Read Custom Soils
June 7, 2024
PRESS RELEASE: Carver Residents Fight for Safety at the Annual Town Meeting
June 5, 2024
Carver: SLT Construction Operating Illegally in Plympton Says CLWC
May 28, 2024
Wareham: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, History and More at Iconic Fearing Hill
May 26, 2024
Preserving Nature’s Tapestry: Biodiversity in Southeastern Massachusetts
May 22, 2024
Save Deer Pond!
May 21, 2024
Plymouth: Protecting Deer Pond from AD Makepeace’s Reckless Development at Redbrook
May 21, 2024
Carver: Illegal mining continues at EJ Pontiff-Ryco Excavating mining site at 104 Tremont Street
May 20, 2024
Carver: SLT’s mining site violates wetlands, water laws says expert
May 3, 2024
Plymouth: Attorney General Slams Selectboard — Again
April 18, 2024
Drinking Water: Experts, federal and state officials speak about the Plymouth Carver Aquifer
April 17, 2024
Plymouth: Spencer-G.Lopes Construction Industrial Park Mining
April 12, 2024
Plymouth: AD Makepeace @ Redbrook Seeks $4 million in taxpayer subsidies
April 8, 2024
Open Forum: Protecting Our Land and Waters, March 27, 2024
March 28, 2024
Kingston: DENIED! Plympton Sand & Gravel Co. Mining Permit
March 13, 2024
Vernal Pools: Unique Habitat, Vulnerable Species, Threatened by Development
March 10, 2024
Big West Pond Plymouth: CLWC Stands Up for Bylaws Designed to Protect this Delicate Ecosystem
March 4, 2024
Plymouth: Stop the Airport Expansion!
March 3, 2024
PRESS RELEASE: Carver Earth Removal Committee Grants Permits to Expand Sand Mines Over Sole Source Drinking Water Aquifer
February 23, 2024
Wareham: AD Makepeace proposes to strip another 54 acres of Pine Barrens forest for industrial solar and battery storage
February 22, 2024
Is cranberry mining in wetlands really “Farming in Wetland Resources” under the law?
February 12, 2024
Meg Sheehan Responds to Plymouth Independent’s False Narrative
February 12, 2024
Plymouth: AD Makepece Co. proposes industrial solar in global biodiversity hotspot
February 8, 2024
Halifax: Fight against strip mining on Monponsett Pond continues
February 7, 2024
Carver: Pontiff-Ryco Excavating Mining Site, 104 Tremont violates wetlands laws, more
January 29, 2024
Earth Removal and Environmental Protection: Law Review Article, 1974
January 18, 2024
Save Deer Pond!
December 6, 2023
Plymouth: Wastewater Treatment Plant Proposal To Discharge to Aquifer
December 6, 2023
Carver-Plympton: SLT Construction Mining Site: Archeologically Significant
December 5, 2023
Carver: SLT Construction’s Plympton zoning appeal for “material processing facility” denied in Plympton
December 5, 2023
Plymouth & Carver: Plymouth Municipal Airport Operations Concern Residents
November 4, 2023
Press Release: Pine Barrens Forest Walk – October 28, 2023
November 3, 2023
Stop Logging Our Public Lands: Myles Standish State Forest
August 28, 2023
Plymouth: Attorney General Slams Selectboard and ZBA for Open Meeting Law Violations; CLWC continues to demand compliance, transparency at Town Hall
August 22, 2023
Plymouth: ZBA, Conservation Commission challenged for approving 348-unit apartment complex on 16 acres in Colony Place
August 11, 2023
Plymouth: Water Supply Issues
August 11, 2023
Community Land and Water Coalition July Newsletter
August 1, 2023
Carver: SLT’s massive sand mine on Route 44 level’s regions highest hill in 6 years for sand and gravel, harms people and environment
July 25, 2023
Press Release: July 22, 2023 Rally to Stop Sand Mining in Southeastern Massachusetts
July 25, 2023
Middleborough: 223 acres wetlands, forests, residential neighborhood threatened by Lincoln Logistics Warehouse Project
June 29, 2023
Take Action!
June 22, 2023
Kingston: Sand & Gravel Mining company sued for negligence, nuisance, trespass
June 5, 2023
Rochester, MA: Cranberry company sues Ryco Excavating for digging too deep into the aquifer, not paying for all sand and gravel extracted
June 2, 2023
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
June 1, 2023
Community Land & Water Coalition May Newsletter
May 18, 2023
Press Release: Siting Board Rules Unanimously It Lacks Jurisdiction Over Two BESS Facilities in MA
May 12, 2023
Carver: May 10, 2023: State EFSB votes unanimously to reject petitions of two proposed battery storage facilities
May 10, 2023
Carver: May 2023: Town Earth Removal Bylaw mysteriously altered to benefit AD Makepeace and sand and gravel mining operators
May 5, 2023
Government investigation of fraud, corruption in Southeastern Massachusetts sand and gravel industry
May 4, 2023
Take action with us! Grassroots activists in Southeastern MA have ongoing standouts to raise awareness about protecting our water & communities from illegal mining & industrial solar on forests
May 4, 2023
Carver: North Weston Cranberry: commercial sand and gravel mining, $104,500 in state taxpayer subsidies for cranberry bog renovation, and industrial solar with battery on wetland bogs
May 2, 2023
Wareham: WIN! Town Meeting votes hold AD Makepeace Co. responsible for Parker Mills Dam
April 29, 2023
Wareham: While Ten Residents’ Group heads to court over sand mining in Wareham Selectboard asks for $50,000 at Town Meeting on 4/24/23 to investigate AD Makepeace and others
April 21, 2023
Wareham: A.D. Makepeace strip mining and solar project at 140 Tihonet Road
April 16, 2023
Carver: Carver Concerned Citizens make strong showing at Annual Town Meeting 2023
April 15, 2023
Community Land & Water Coalition hosts Indigenous Resources Collaborative at Plymouth’s Herring Festival!
March 25, 2023
Industrial Solar Siting: Mass. Association of Conservation Commissions
March 4, 2023
Plymouth: TL Edwards asphalt/concrete batching and mining site violates the law says group
February 24, 2023
Support State Legislation to Empower Municipalities to Regulate Large Industrial Solar
February 13, 2023
Kingston: PROJECT CANCELLED! Thorndike Development withdraws concept plans for Sacred Heart school revealed in January 2023
February 13, 2023
Carver: Edaville Railroad Site Proposed for 40B Housing
February 10, 2023
Cranberry Agriculture? Residential Subdivision? Business Park? Or sand and gravel mine?
February 4, 2023
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
January 31, 2023
Plymouth: What about that “Giant excavation site on Route 3?”
January 31, 2023
Carver: Support Battery Safety Bylaw at Town Meeting June 4, 2024
January 30, 2023
Carver-Plymouth: Weston Franklin Marsh – Ryco Excavating mining operation continues under the ruse of cranberry agriculture
January 30, 2023
Wareham: 0 Route 25 Proposed Solar Site Threatens Pine Barrens Forest, Drinking Water and Way of Life
January 30, 2023
Plymouth: EJ Pontiff – PA Landers mining operation continues under the ruse of agriculture off Firehouse Road
January 30, 2023
Press Release: Jan. 18, 2023:
January 18, 2023
Are cranberry growers falsely claiming “agricultural” use to evade taxes while conducting sand mining?
December 10, 2022
Don’t Pillage Plymouth!
December 10, 2022
Plymouth: AD Makepeace mining operation under the ruse of cranberry agriculture exposed
December 6, 2022
Wareham: AD Makepeace, others conduct mining operations under ruse of agriculture claims group, seeks enforcement
December 6, 2022
Carver: Town, State Allow Commercial Mining in Sole Source Aquifer on Meadow Street
December 5, 2022
Carver Whistleblowers: Alex Johnson Cranberry, Maki – G. Lopes conduct mining under ruse of cranberry agriculture
December 5, 2022
Plymouth: AD Makepeace massive mine in South Plymouth & ZBA’s role
December 4, 2022
Plymouth: AD Makepeace mining operation under the ruse of cranberry agriculture challenged for wetlands violations
December 3, 2022
Wareham: Two AD Makepeace Solar Proposals Denied Planning Board Special Permit Extension
November 18, 2022
Solar Gone Wrong in Massachusetts: Case Studies
November 6, 2022
2017 Study Revealed Impacts of Solar Development in Massachusetts
October 22, 2022
Grassroots network delivers petition for solar moratorium to Governor Baker on Oct. 27, 2022
October 21, 2022
Walpole: Solar threatens iconic farmland
October 21, 2022
Plymouth: ZBA complicit in Spencer’s mining operation under the ruse of subdivision road on Long Pond Road
October 20, 2022
Forests for life, forests for climate!
October 19, 2022
Carver: Still asking for answers on PineGate’s toxic arsenic poles for “dual use” solar on cranberry bogs
October 18, 2022
Wareham: AD Makepeace CEO Jim Kane claims mining operation at 140 Tihonet Road is “agriculture” and exempt from permitting
October 17, 2022
Plymouth: Conservation Commission: Enforce the Wetlands Laws!
October 12, 2022
Carver: SLT Construction seeks state permit for “RCC” facility in Plympton
October 4, 2022
Carver: Cranberry Point Battery Storage Facility
September 30, 2022
Carver: Cranberry Point Battery Storage: MEPA state environmental review
September 30, 2022
Carver: Experts say proposed 150 MW battery facility poses fire, explosion, toxic gas risk; Carver not prepared
September 30, 2022
Cranberry Country Corruption? In 2021 grassroots investigation starts to shine the light on mining in Southeastern Massachusetts
September 28, 2022
Take action with us! Grassroots activists in Southeastern MA have ongoing standouts to raise awareness about protecting our water & communities from illegal mining & industrial solar on forests
September 12, 2022
Carver: Former Town Administrator Michael Milanoski deceived Carver voters on battery bylaw, profiled in Boston Globe
September 7, 2022
Plymouth: County Woodlot Lease with Boston South, proposing racetrack and maybe gambling
August 21, 2022
Carver: SLT Construction conducts massive mining operation as “site preparation” for “Rickets Pond Business Park”
August 21, 2022
Plymouth: Conservation Commission vote to throw out wetlands protection rules & regulations appears to violate Constitutional rights
August 16, 2022
Is Plymouth MA the “sand and gravel removal capital of the South Shore” — or the world?
August 16, 2022
Plymouth: Pyramid/Independence Mall, Aquifer Protection District threatened by 200-lot car dealership, automotive service center, car wash
August 15, 2022
Plymouth: South Ponds Preserve: Legal challenge dropped when Town withdraws parking plan
August 15, 2022
Whistleblower Reports
August 1, 2022
Plymouth: The Walk Development, Colony Place
July 31, 2022
Forum on Wetlands Laws in Plymouth, Aug. 2022
July 27, 2022
Carver: Whistleblowers: AD Makepeace mining operations under ruse of cranberry agriculture
July 26, 2022
Plymouth Conservation Commission: Whistleblowers
July 26, 2022
Plymouth: South Ponds Preserve
July 26, 2022
Carver: MassDEP, Conservation Commission complicit in destruction of wetlands by cranberry industry: Edgewood Bogs strip mine operation exempted from Wetlands Protection Act
July 23, 2022
Carver: Whistleblowers: SLT Construction mining site, Spring Street
July 22, 2022
Carver: Cranberry Point seeks exemption from Carver’s zoning laws
July 5, 2022
Kingston: Oct. 19, 2022: Zoning board issues cease and desist against O’Donnnell sand and gravel operation importing “fill”
July 4, 2022
Global Sand Mining Wars
July 4, 2022
Plymouth: Claremont Plymouth LLC: Are they Zoning Bylaws or Why-Laws?
July 2, 2022
PFAS & Solar Installations
June 25, 2022
New Hampshire: 245 acres of forest threatened by NextEra’s Chariot Solar project
June 14, 2022
Racial justice & sand mining: a Mashpee Wampanoag perspective
June 7, 2022
Ecological effects of deforestation
June 3, 2022
Wareham: Residents, Town fight back: Don’t Kill Fearing Hill!
June 2, 2022
EdgeEffects Podcast from Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison on sand mining
May 31, 2022
AD Makepeace: State MEPA office rubber-stamps AD Makepeace environmental impact report – again
May 23, 2022
AD Makepeace’s bait and switch on the “TMUD” of 6,500 acres in Plymouth, Carver and Wareham
May 9, 2022
Carver: Cranberry Point: Siting Board Proceedings
May 7, 2022
Protest against AD Makepeace greenwashing
May 4, 2022
April 2022: Massachusetts solar and battery subsidies galvanize opposition to protect forests, water and heritage
May 2, 2022
Plymouth-Carver-Wareham – State permits AD Makepeace to destroy kill rare species, priority habitat for mining operations under the ruse of cranberry agriculture and “green energy”
May 2, 2022
Wareham: AD Makepeace, Beals+Thomas unpermitted sand mining under the ruse of agriculture & solar destroys 42-acres of Priority Habitat designated by Natural Heritage at Charlotte Furnace Road
May 1, 2022
Wareham: 160 Tihonet Road sand mining and solar: Endangered Species Impacts
April 29, 2022
Global Sand Crisis
April 28, 2022
Barnstable: Planning Board Declines to Pause Large-Scale Solar Arrays
April 19, 2022
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
April 11, 2022
Carver by-laws: Chapter 9: Environment, Earth Removal
April 8, 2022
Carver: Cranberry Point’s Failed Attempt to Block Carver Citizen Petition for Battery Moratorium
April 5, 2022
Wareham: AD Makepeace 140 Tihonet Road strip mining and solar project: legal challenges
April 4, 2022
Solar Siting & Wetlands
March 7, 2022
Land Stewardship Award from Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions for Pine Barrens activist
March 2, 2022
Carver: Lawsuit to challenge ZBA and SLT Construction’s Spring Street mining site violations
March 2, 2022
Carver: AD Makepeace mining operation under the ruse of cranberry agriculture at 59 Federal Road – 85 acres being obliterated, 2020 to present
March 1, 2022
Cranberry giant AD Makepeace continues its massive destruction of forests, wildlife, biodiversity for sand mining operations
March 1, 2022
Supreme Judicial Court rules for solar developer highlighting need for urgent legislative action on solar siting & a moratorium on clear-cutting forests for large ground mounted solar
February 22, 2022
Wetlands aren’t mines!
February 12, 2022
Conway MA: NextAmp solar destroys forest, residential area
January 28, 2022
Carver: Lawsuit over drinking water contamination from leaking No. Carver Landfill
January 23, 2022
Carver: PineGate’s “dual use” arsenic solar panel poles
January 11, 2022
Carver: AD Makepeace/REDP “dual use” solar project using toxic CCA poles
January 11, 2022
Solar Siting: Background on Legislative Efforts
December 16, 2021
Sand mining: information & resources
December 16, 2021
Sand mining destroying Southeastern Massachusetts
December 15, 2021
Toxic arsenic CCA solar poles in Massachusetts: Pull the Poles campaign
November 28, 2021
Plymouth Carver Sole Source Aquifer: the only drinking water source for public and private wells for about 200,000 people and growing!
November 7, 2021
“Dual-Use” solar on farmland and cranberry bogs is a bad idea
November 1, 2021
Shutesbury, MA: NextEra ground-mounted solar causes erosion, water pollution
October 11, 2021
Rochester, MA: Indigenous cultural sites, wetlands, biodiversity threatened by industrial solar
September 11, 2021
Citizen Suit Law invoked to stop AD Makepeace
August 16, 2021
Who is DOER Commissioner Woodcock? He’s the person behind solar gone wrong in Massachusetts!
August 13, 2021
Who is Borrego Solar?
August 5, 2021
Wareham: Ground-zero for large industrial solar in Massachusetts
August 5, 2021
Northfield MA: BlueWave solar proposed for 126 acres of prime farmland, Indigenous site. The lawsuit challenging the solar project gets hearing in Franklin County Superior Court.
August 5, 2021
Fact Sheet: Rooftop v. Industrial Ground Mounted Solar
August 3, 2021
Resources: Examples of solar bylaws and solar moratorium in Massachusetts
June 30, 2021
ConEd 22-acre solar proposal on Fearing Hill strikes at heart of forest, wetlands and community
June 28, 2021
Report: Killing forests, trees, soils for large ground mounted solar in Massachusetts
June 22, 2021
Wareham: 19 destructive ground mounted solar projects, more planned
June 11, 2021
Education: Webinars
June 7, 2021
Carver: AD Makepeace-Borrego Solar 50-acre mining & solar site, Federal Road
May 9, 2021
Plymouth: County Woodlot Earth Removal
April 20, 2021
Carver: AD Makepeace mining operation under the ruse of cranberry agriculture and site preparation for Borrego Solar “Golden Field” project on Federal Road
April 20, 2021
Borrego Solar & AD Makepeace: Partners in Destruction of the Pine Barrens: Golden Field Solar, Carver MA
April 20, 2021
Solar $ubsidies: follow the money
April 20, 2021
Wareham: MEPA allows AD Makepeace to misrepresent damage to the environment, evade review of sand and gravel for solar
April 18, 2021
Challenge to Massachusetts SMART solar subsidies
April 18, 2021
Economics: why saving the Pine Barrens makes financial sense for our towns
April 11, 2021