Plymouth: Stop the Airport Expansion!
Click Here to Send Comments to MEPA and EPA on Plymouth Airport Expansion Using Our Letter Writing Campaign. The Plymouth Municipal Airport is located on South Meadow Road in West […]
Plymouth: ZBA, Conservation Commission challenged for approving 348-unit apartment complex on 16 acres in Colony Place
The Plymouth Selectboard made a deal with Claremont Developers behind closed doors in late 2022. In exchange for a special permit from the Zoning Board of Appeals Claremont will gift up to $3 million to the town for a water booster pump. This is a short term, 5-year solution to the town's water crisis, according to the Town Manager. Selectman Bletzer lobbied the ZBA for the permit, publicly. Claremont is deep in a web of questionable dealings. In addition, a lawsuit has been filed challenging the ZBA permit issued as part of the deal.
Kingston: Sand & Gravel Mining company sued for negligence, nuisance, trespass
Operation emits particulate dust, noise, vibration damaging and harming abutting private property After conducting a mining operation for decades, company dumps “urban debris” in pit, threatening drinking water aquifer On […]
Rochester, MA: Cranberry company sues Ryco Excavating for digging too deep into the aquifer, not paying for all sand and gravel extracted
In 2015, cranberry company Decas sued Ryco Excavating for digging too deep into the aquifer to create a cranberry pond and not paying Decas for all of the material extracted […]
Carver: May 10, 2023: State EFSB votes unanimously to reject petitions of two proposed battery storage facilities
BREAKING NEWS April 30, 2023 State says it plans to reject Cranberry Point application! ANNOUNCEMENT ON CRANBERRY POINT BATTERY STORAGE In a major win for opponents of the 150 megawatt Battery Energy Storage Facility (“BESS”) proposed for Carver, the state Energy Facility Siting Board (“EFSB”) plans to vote on May 10, 2023 to reject the petition of Power Plus of Texas to build the project.
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Carver: North Weston Cranberry: commercial sand and gravel mining, $104,500 in state taxpayer subsidies for cranberry bog renovation, and industrial solar with battery on wetland bogs
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 […]
Wareham: WIN! Town Meeting votes hold AD Makepeace Co. responsible for Parker Mills Dam
Makepeace can no longer evade accountability for deadbeat dam that impairs fish passage, threatens safety Article courtesy of Wareham Week Town Meeting voted on Tuesday, April 25 to urge the […]
Carver: Ten Residents Group sues over illegal sand and gravel mining by A.D. Makepeace under the ruse of “cranberry agriculture”
Using Massachusetts' Citizen Suit Statute, a Ten Residents Group goes to court to stop AD Makepeace from continuing to strip mine, causing damage to the environment. The Town of Carver is siding with the company against its own residents, covering up for the illegal mining.
Carver-Plymouth: Weston Franklin Marsh – Ryco Excavating mining operation continues under the ruse of cranberry agriculture
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.