Global Sand Crisis
United Nations Report calls for urgent action to regulate sand mining April 26, 2022: United Nations Environment Program releases report and calls for urgent action to avert a “sand crisis” […]
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
Read testimony to the Energy Facility Siting Board on battery storage risks. Promoted as “green energy” and part of the “transition to a clean energy economy” Battery Energy Storage Systems […]
Carver by-laws: Chapter 9: Environment, Earth Removal
The Town of Carver, General Bylaw, Chapter 9 governs “earth removal” in the Town. It establishes the Earth Removal Committee which has the responsibility to implement the law for the […]
Wetlands aren’t mines!
Mining companies claim they are exempt from wetlands laws as “agriculture” These “cranberry bog” and “farm projects” are a ruse to evade wetland and water pollution laws Groups go to […]
Carver: AD Makepeace/REDP “dual use” solar project using toxic CCA poles
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 […]
Wareham: Ground-zero for large industrial solar in Massachusetts
19 large ground mounted industrial solar in Wareham as of 2022 1,400 more acres of large solar planned Lithium-ion storage batteries also located at the sites Zoning Bylaw on solar […]
Northfield MA: BlueWave solar proposed for 126 acres of prime farmland, Indigenous site. The lawsuit challenging the solar project gets hearing in Franklin County Superior Court.
August 12, 2022 Affidavit of Scott W. Horsley, a water resource consultant and William Powers, owner of Powers Engineering: April 12, 2022 Franklin Superior Court Judge Francis E. Flannery rejects […]
ConEd 22-acre solar proposal on Fearing Hill strikes at heart of forest, wetlands and community
Fearing Hill is one of the highest points of land left in Wareham and has historic significance, high biodiversity, ancient ways and wetlands. The so-called Clean Energy Collective of Colorado […]
Wareham: MEPA allows AD Makepeace to misrepresent damage to the environment, evade review of sand and gravel for solar
In 2021, groups challenged Makepeace’s environment review, saying the company misrepresented environmental impacts by refusing to disclose sand and gravel mining operation MEPA gave Makepeace a free pass, allowing the […]