Submitted by Sue Phelan, info@GreenCAPE.org On Thursday, June 11, the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) approved the 2015 Eversource (formerly NSTAR) Yearly Operational Plan (YOP) for Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard despite serious and widespread objections from Cape residents and tourists. If you vacation on Cape Cod, you should know that the following towns have … Read more
Submitted by Sue Phelan, info@GreenCAPE.org NSTAR (now re-branded as Eversource Energy) has published their 2015 Yearly Operational Plan (YOP) for Cape Cod and beyond. Once again includes the use of powerful herbicides. Please spend a little time looking at the plan, the maps, the warnings. The plans are not substantially different from town to town but the … Read more
The Town of Bourne is to be applauded for their recent demonstration of leadership in the matter of NSTAR herbicide spraying on Bourne properties. In previous years the Bourne Board of Selectmen along with Select Boards/Town Councils of Cape and Vineyard towns passed the resolution submitted by GreenCAPE that opposed the spraying of undisclosed mixtures of herbicides on … Read more
As of October 14, toxic pesticide exposures from NSTAR’s spraying private residential property under their electrical lines are no longer speculative. Widespread spraying of herbicides drifted outside the NSTAR transmission rights-of-way (ROWs) in Harwich, MA, exposing a horse farm with 16 horses, a few dogs, and the farm owners and workers. Clare Bergh, the owner … Read more
The most recent implementation of NSTAR’s poison plan of herbicide spraying throughout the Commonwealth and beyond found NSTAR in stiff disagreement with a family of Herring Pond Wampanoag Indians living on tribal land in Bourne, MA. The Chief of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Indian’s letter (see below) notified NSTAR that spraying on private land under … Read more
