Kingston: DENIED! Plympton Sand & Gravel Co. Mining Permit
Victory! March 12, 2024: Kingston Selectboard denies “earth removal” permit for Plympton Sand & Gravel mine Mining company asks for chance to redesign project and come back, Board says […]
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: AD Makepeace, others conduct mining operations under ruse of agriculture claims group, seeks enforcement
For almost 2 years, Wareham Board of Selectmen has ignored unanimous Town Meeting vote for an investigation of unpermitted sand and gravel mining November 2022 letter gives Selectmen notice 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 […]
Wetlands aren’t mines!
Mining companies claim they are exempt from wetlands laws as “agriculture” These “cranberry bog” and “farm projects” are a ruse to evade wetland and water pollution laws Groups go to […]
Carver: PineGate’s “dual use” arsenic solar panel poles
Rochester Road: 44 acres, thousands of arsenic treated poles for 6,291 solar panels, lithium ion batteries in cranberry bog; earth removal nearby Tremont Street: 57 acres, thousands of arsenic treated poles for […]
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 […]
Toxic arsenic CCA solar poles in Massachusetts: Pull the Poles campaign
Arsenic solar poles contaminating soil, groundwater, and chromium and copper found in cranberries according to PineGate consultants; no written plan to replace poles, residents cut out of the process Pull […]
“Dual-Use” solar on farmland and cranberry bogs is a bad idea
Science does not support the claim that cranberries or other crops can grow under solar panels. Why are we investing hundreds of millions of dollars on the dual use experiment? […]