FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 24, 2023 Contact: Meg Sheehan, environmentwatchsoutheasternma@gmail.com Community Land and Water Coalition Holds Rally in Wareham To Stop Sand Mining in Southeastern Massachusetts Groups and residents […]
Was this an “honest mistake” as Makepeace and Town lawyers claim — or was the Bylaw doctored to mislead the Court in lawsuit to stop illegal mining? For the second […]
The company is doing sand and gravel mining while collecting taxpayer subsidies for “bog renovation” Has collected at least $104,500 in state taxpayer subsidies while mining at least $1.2 million […]
On Federal Road in Carver, AD Makepeace Co. runs Read Custom Soils, a trucking terminal for its sand and gravel mining operations In 2012, Makepeace told the state Read was […]
Makepeace will clear-cut about 65 acres of forest, level hill on Tihonet Pond, and strip mine for 1 million cubic yards of sand & gravel Borrego and Makepeace lose on […]
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.
Mining operation on Monponsett Pond in drinking water protection zone under the ruse of “cranberry agriculture” In May, 2023 residents sued two cranberry companies, Ryco Excavating and sought injunction to […]
At 140 Tihonet Road in Wareham, AD Makepeace and Borrego Solar propose one of three large ground mounted solar projects that will destroy 176 acres of pristine globally rare Pine […]
Cranberry Point – Power Plus facility requires state Energy Facility Siting Board (EFSB) approval. Read more here. Save the Pine Barrens intervenes at EFSB, submits testimony on fire safety, air […]
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 […]
