Global Sand Crisis
United Nations Report calls for urgent action to regulate sand mining April 26, 2022: United Nations Environment Program releases report and calls for urgent action to avert a “sand crisis” […]
Wareham: AD Makepeace 140 Tihonet Road strip mining and solar project: legal challenges
Legal challenges to A.D. Makepeace’s proposed mining & solar operation at 140 Tihonet Road dismissed, fight continues Update: December, 2023. Since 2021, the Community Land & Water Coalition (CLWC) […]
Carver: AD Makepeace mining operation under the ruse of cranberry agriculture at 59 Federal Road – 85 acres being obliterated, 2020 to present
AD Makepeace mining under the ruse of building a cranberry bog and reservoir. Photos: February 2022 May, 2022: 59 Federal Road “Earth Removal Site” AD Makepeace Co. continues its massive […]
Carver: AD Makepeace/REDP “dual use” solar project using toxic CCA poles
As of October 2022, its been a year since local residents exposed Makepeace’s plan to use cancer-causing copper chromated arsenic poles to mount “dual use” solar panels on a Swan […]
Citizen Suit Law invoked to stop AD Makepeace
Enough is enough. For over a year, Save the Pine Barrens and local residents have demanded that Carver enforce the laws to stop strip mining – including the egregious AD […]
Carver: AD Makepeace-Borrego Solar 50-acre mining & solar site, Federal Road
Mass. Historical Commission signs off despite presence of Native American use and occupation of the land in the Late Woodland Period State MEPA office rubber-stamps, ignores sand and gravel mining […]
Carver: AD Makepeace mining operation under the ruse of cranberry agriculture and site preparation for Borrego Solar “Golden Field” project on Federal Road
Five years is all it took for AD Makepeace to obliterate 50 acres of pristine uplands Pine Barrens forest by strip mining under the ruse of agriculture and site preparation […]
Wareham: MEPA allows AD Makepeace to misrepresent damage to the environment, evade review of sand and gravel for solar
In 2021, groups challenged Makepeace’s environment review, saying the company misrepresented environmental impacts by refusing to disclose sand and gravel mining operation MEPA gave Makepeace a free pass, allowing the […]