Plymouth Beach Sand Project: A Folly?
Plymouth’s $2.9 million beach nourishment project uses sand mined through the destruction of Carver’s forests and leveling of hills Above: Site of the 120-acre A.D. Makepeace sand mine in […]
Save Deer Pond!
Below: Map showing wooded area around Deer Pond, 2015 Below: As of 2023, Redbrook development, cranberry bog and sand and gravel mining expansion around Deer Pond Below: […]
Plymouth: Wastewater Treatment Plant Proposal To Discharge to Aquifer
Town of Plymouth Proposes 300% Increase In Wastewater Discharge to Sole Source Aquifer Google Earth Image showing proximity of Plymouth Wastewater Treatment Facility to the Eel River System Good […]
Plymouth: AD Makepeace mining operation under the ruse of cranberry agriculture exposed
AD Makepeace blatantly abuses the process for obtaining permits under the Mass Endangered Species Act State officials look the other way, pretend Plymouth mining operations are “cranberry agriculture” Hundreds of […]
Plymouth: South Ponds Preserve: Legal challenge dropped when Town withdraws parking plan
Town of Plymouth drops plan to expand parking in Town Forest In mid-2023, amid rising concern about the threats to the South Ponds complex from misuse of the Town Forest, […]
Global Sand Mining Wars
Four booked for illegal sand mining Jul 03, 2022 The Bhindi Saida police have booked four persons for allegedly indulging in illegal excavation of land near the Ravi river. It […]
AD Makepeace: State MEPA office rubber-stamps AD Makepeace environmental impact report – again
Continuing 15 years of complicity and turning a blind eye to AD Makepeace’s environmental destruction being done under the ruse of “smart growth” and “cranberry agriculture” on June 1, 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”
Our Massachusetts Endangered Species Act protects our unique plants and animals-some found no where else on earth. There are 220 protected rare plants and animals in Southeastern Mass’s unique Atlantic […]
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
The AD Makepeace Co. Charlotte Furnace Road, Wareham solar site is solar gone wrong. 42 acres of BioMap2 Priority Habitat DESTROYED. Beals+Thomas Engineers and MEPA office go along with this destruction. This is a disgrace to our state.
Wareham: 160 Tihonet Road sand mining and solar: Endangered Species Impacts
The state Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program (NHESP) gave Makepeace a “take permit” for 10 rare and endangered species at the site Did engineers Beals+Thomas misrepresent the sand and […]