Governor Healy has appointed Elizabeth Mahony to replace former DOER Commissioner Woodcock. Woodcock was in office to promote the corporate interests of the energy industry. He leaves behind a legacy of forest clear-cuts and polluted waterways caused by his solar subsidy program. We will be carefully tracking the new Commissioner’s decisions on energy issues including solar and renewable energy.
Town Meeting in Carver is April 11, 2023. Citizen Petitions aim to protect drinking water, forest, and control large ground mounted industrial solar and battery storage.
Wareham Planning Board asks tough questions of solar developer looking to clear cut 21 acres of forest and cover over a strip mine for a large ground mounted solar project. This has all the components of Solar Gone Wrong.
Large ground-mounted industrial solar projects have already destroyed over 4,000 acres of Massachusetts forests and farmland according to a recent Mass Audubon and Clark University
Called for changing state subsidies to avoid loss of forests, wetlands, Indigenous sites Revised state SMART solar regulations did nothing to improve th solar siting
On Jan. 11, 2023, Superior Court Judge O’Shea ruled against a citizen case brought to enforce the wetlands bylaw and protect our water PineGate’s $32
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
The Chariot Solar Project is a 50 megawatt project proposed by NextEra in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. NextEra, a huge energy corporation, proposes nine separate arrays
Solar developer ConEdison proposes to clear-cut Pine Barrens forest, denude land for large ground mounted solar, batteries Site located on Weweantic River, ancient Native American
Instead of smart growth and conservation as promised in 2008, Makepeace is doing industrial sand mining and large solar Our state “Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act”
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