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Tag Archive for: whistleblower

Carver Whistleblowers: Alex Johnson Cranberry, Maki – G. Lopes conduct mining under ruse of cranberry agriculture

December 5, 2022

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 agricultural project by Alex Johnson & Son Cranberry Co. This is a ruse.  Lopes Construction of Taunton runs the extraction and trucking operations.

Johnson is one of many so-called cranberry companies like AD Makepeace doing sand and gravel extraction under the guise of a cranberry operation. Johnson is actually a defunct cranberry company according to the Secretary of State.

A Notice of Intent to Sue letter was sent on Dec. 5, 2022 for damage to the environment.

An earth removal truck leaving the Meadow Street job site in Carver on April 22, 2022.

Heavy earth removal equipment used for sand mining is seen at the Bette Maki “cranberry property” on April 6, 2022.

Sand piles from earth removal activities disguised as cranberry farming at 0 Meadow Street in Carver. Photo taken on April 6, 2022.

A neighbor’s vehicle is covered in silica sand dust emissions from sand mining activities on Meadow Street. Photo taken on March 21, 2022

Entrance to 0 Meadow Street is covered in tire tracks from earth removal trucks. Photo taken on March 20, 2022

Below: Maki-Lopes 20 acre mining site claiming to be an agricultural project. Massive environmental damage and harm to abutting residents, homes, waterways.

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Whistleblower Reports

August 1, 2022

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 are breaking the rules and limits set and harming communities and ecosystems for profit.

Our grassroots network continues to monitor and report violations to expose strip mine operators and others damaging our environment, water and communities.

Whistleblower violations reported:

A.D. Makepeace, Federal Road, Carver, MA

SLT Construction, Spring Street, Carver, MA

Bette Maki Property, Meadow Street, Carver, MA

South Pond Preserve

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Carver: Whistleblowers: AD Makepeace mining operations under ruse of cranberry agriculture

July 26, 2022

Our grassroots network is monitoring and reporting violations.

We are exposing the strip mine operators and others damaging our environment, water and communities and the local officials who cover up for them.

Drop a dime! If you know of a site or any violations, get in touch!

Tuesday, July 26, 2022: AD Makepeace mining sites on Federal Road. Report “Driving down Federal road at approximately 1 p.m. The road was full of clouds of dust and wind blown sand. Everything had a coating of sand. The whole forest around Borrego’s Golden Field solar [where AD Makepeace is mining 134 acres for sand and gravel. It was a visible dystopian cloud of destruction. Sad.” – Anonymous, name available on request.

AD Makepeace site, 46 Federal Road, Read Custom Soils Scale House. Makepeace disguises its sand and gravel mining as “cranberry agriculture”. August, 2022
AD Makepeace earth removal site, Federal Road, Spring 2022

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