Meg Sheehan

Lawyer, activist and mom fighting for Mother Earth, justice and all things wild.

[Aida Greenbury @AidaGreenbury]

Why are mangroves inside a protected Nature Park in Papua being cleared?

"This is our ancestral land, these mangrove forests should not be destroyed because these are Papuan women's forests that must be protected and preserved," said a representative of Indigenous Women. https://t.co/sSEjcoO7mD

[Meg Sheehan @EcoLawMeg]

Reminder! Our forests and water at stake! Attend planning board meeting to advocate for wise development of our land. These projects do not fit the bill. @savepinebarrens @SavePines @CarverCitizens @SustainablePlym

[Meg Sheehan @EcoLawMeg]

Important Planning Board meeting and hearing in Plymouth tomorrow night: on the agenda is AD Makepeace Red Brook destruction, massive project in Colony Place for another almost 400 units, and the Long Pond road strip mine site. https://t.co/JZcsvozGeY @savepinebarrens @SavePines

[Meg Sheehan @EcoLawMeg]

Important Planning Board meeting and hearing in Plymouth tomorrow night: on the agenda is AD Makepeace Red Brook destruction, massive project in Colony Place for another almost 400 units, and the Long Pond road strip mine site. https://t.co/JZcsvozGeY @savepinebarrens @SavePines

[Meg Sheehan @EcoLawMeg]

Check out this story from NY. We are pursuing this kind of enforcement against those who flout the law in Massachusetts against cutting trees. AD Makepeace and town of Plymouth are a place to start. @standingtrees_ @savepinebarrens @EEASecretary @CitizensWareham

[Create Alliances for Better and Prepare for Worse. @SamAsIAm]

A friend who is a municipal arborist just called to tell me about a guy who cut down 32 big mature trees on his neighbor's NJ property to get a better view of NYC. He hired a guy who hired another guy. Cut them down and left the debris there. The fine per tree is $1000 so the 1/

[Meg Sheehan @EcoLawMeg]

@SamAsIAm Is there a news article on this that we can repost? Thanks for sharing this?

[Aida Greenbury @AidaGreenbury]

Illegal tin mining destroyed protected forest areas of Penganak Beach in West Bangka. When checked, nothing was found but two large holes on the ground filled with water. The local village head washed his hands.

Why are protected forest areas not protected?

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[Protect Thacker Pass @ProtectThPass]

All life on Earth depends on healthy, flourishing ecosystems. Mining and extraction destroy ecosystems. Therefore, mining and extraction are incompatible with life on planet Earth. That's why we must keep it in the ground--all of it--all materials required to make batteries...

[Aida Greenbury @AidaGreenbury]

Massive social and environmental disasters are never caused by accident. Large-scale deforestation and peatland drainage are by design, and one of the side effects of short-term financial gain is the creation of an enormous tinderbox.

[Aida Greenbury @AidaGreenbury]

Our forests are becoming silent. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of birds have trapped and taken into the city, locked up in small cages in people’s homes, all to hear a bird sing. https://t.co/CGRyWzFZTo

[Meg Sheehan @EcoLawMeg]

@CarverCitizens @SavePines @CitizensWareham @MassSierraClub @mass_rivers check out some grassroots news! Lots happening and lots to do! Stay tuned for an important action alert to save land in Middleboro. @thetrustees

[Valessa Souter-Kline @ValessaSK]

MA continues to put forth strong solar legislation to meet the climate emergency. Thanks @jeffroy and members of the TUE committee for the opportunity to testify today.

[Meg Sheehan @EcoLawMeg]

Environmental justice and biodiversity. @BrightGreenLies @dan_reicher @CommWealthMag @NPR @shankman @EEASecretary @SabinCenter @HoodwinkedH

[Meg Sheehan @EcoLawMeg]

Solar siting in Massachusetts has gone off the rails damaging forests, wetlands, groundwater and Indigenous cultural sites. Multinational solar companies use an outdated zoning clause to bully municipalities on the front lines of trying to ensure appropriate siting. Numerous

[Meg Sheehan @EcoLawMeg]

Bills have been filed to undue the 40 year old Dover amendment protection that solar developers weaponize against municipalities. Without municipal oversight there would be NO-repeat-NO legal restraint on solar siting. This is not NIMBYism. It is survival of the planet,

[Protect Thacker Pass @ProtectThPass]

Posting news from #OxSamCamp at Thacker Pass / Peehee Mu'huh:

Land Defenders Arrested, Camp Raided After Blocking Excavator

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#ProtectThackerPass #ProtectPeeheeMuhuh

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[Meg Sheehan @EcoLawMeg]

Sand is the second most extracted resource on earth, after water says the United Nations. Southeastern MA, = ground zero. Residents go to court to do what our state government refuses to do: protect our drinking water & Indigenous culture. #sandmafia https://t.co/roAMlxeroy

[Greenpeace Australia Pacific @GreenpeaceAP]

BREAKING @greenpeaceap activists climbed a toxic discarded sinking oil tower owned by fossil fuel company @WoodsideEnergy near Ningaloo Reef #WhalesNotWoodside #dontbeatosser ACT NOW >>> https://t.co/TjRV2SRHaF

[Meg Sheehan @EcoLawMeg]

@GreenpeaceAP @WoodsideEnergy Stop woodside’ destruction! No seismic testing no gas wells near Ningaloo! @savepinebarrens @saveourseas @hectorsdolphin

[Meg Sheehan @EcoLawMeg]

Across the globe, people are speaking out against the sand mining industry. Here in Southeastern MA those who do are experiencing retaliation and gaslighting. @CarverCitizens @maura_healey

Activists speak out against boulder mining https://t.co/SWiLyTkNIG via @The Meghalayan

[Cultural Survival @CSORG]

Indigenous Peoples have been living for millennia honoring our sacred link to Mother Earth. Even today, when profit-driven destruction keeps imposing itself, Indigenous Peoples guard 80% of our planet's biodiversity. #EarthDay #MotherEarthDay #IndigenousStweardship #EarthDay2023