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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 […]
Craig & Gary Weston, part of the cranberry "Cosa Nostra" of Carver as they call themselves, are doing a massive strip mine under the false pretense of agriculture. In Jan. 2023, the Plymouth Planning Board joined the Plymouth ZBA in complicity in this exploitation of legal loopholes and solar subsidies. The Planning Board approved "floating solar" for the illegally created reservoir.
Public hearing on STPB enforcement request: Monday March 20, 7 p.m. Plymouth Zoning Board of Appeals Does this look like “cranberry agriculture” or industrial sand and gravel mining? Above: Pontiff […]
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 […]
This page documents some of the Earth Removal Bylaw and permit violations at the illegal Maki-Lopes mining site on Meadow Street in Carver, Massachusetts. The landowner claims is is an […]
Coming up: Sunday Oct. 23, 2022 from 10 to 2 p.m. Meet at the public library (2 Meadowbrook Way, Carver).Standout will take place at Carver Town Hall (108 Main Street) […]
In 2015, Emily Clark, writing for the Old Colony Memorial, warned that America’s hometown, Plymouth, was leveled by sand and gravel removal. Today, the crisis is worse: Plymouth is at […]
Throughout 2022, there were noise, truck limit, earth removal and other violations at various sand mining sites in Southeastern Massachusetts. Photos and records from whistleblowers show that earth removal companies […]
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 […]
