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Wareham: AD Makepeace, others conduct mining operations under ruse of agriculture claims group, seeks enforcement

Dec 6, 2022  AD Makepeace

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 […]

Kingston: Plympton Sand & Gravel claims “organic cranberry bog” as ruse for proposed mining operation

Jul 4, 2022  CLwpBS  Ancient Way

Kingston Conservation Commission asked to approve developer’s wetland delineation Ex-state rep shopping around for “cranberry bog” plan for the site — why isn’t this part of developer’s application? Land was […]

Wetlands aren’t mines! Fake claims of agricultural exemption to wetlands goes unchallenged — until now!

Feb 12, 2022  CLwpBS  agricultural exemption

Industrial scale sand mining is devastating Southeastern Massachusetts. Vast deposits of globally rare “silica” sand laid down by the glacier are being stripped off for commercial sale. Often this is […]

Carver: PineGate’s “dual use” arsenic solar panel poles

Jan 11, 2022  CLwpBS  Agrovoltaics

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

Jan 11, 2022  CLwpBS  AD Makepeace

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

Nov 28, 2021  CLwpBS  Agrovoltaics

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

Nov 1, 2021  CLwpBS  ACEC

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? […]

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