2/3/2021
Why didn’t Cumberland get earlier chance at well property?
This lot at 500 Nate Whipple Highway was acquired by the town of Cumberland for $600,000 last year after its previous owner purchased it for $275,000 a few months earlier. (Breeze photo by Ethan Shorey)
Parties shed light on $600,000 land purchase
CUMBERLAND – Since news last November that the town would acquire a Nate Whipple Highway property for a future municipal well expansion, some residents have voiced questions about the profit its previous owner was able to walk away with.
That owner, Cumberland’s Stephen Instasi III, ended up securing a profit of $325,000 when he sold the property at 500 Nate Whipple Highway to the town of Cumberland for $600,000 shortly after its former owner, John Boucher, had sold it to him for $275,000 last June.
Gulf Spill PHOTO: U.S. Coast Guard CC
A chemical dispersant that is linked to making thousands of members of the Coast Guard as well as clean-up workers sick in the Gulf oil spill of 2010 is authorized to be used in Narragansett Bay.
The chemical dispersant called COREXIT is banned in nearly two dozen countries including the United Kingdom and Sweden.
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster was the largest U.S. oil spill and second-largest overall oil spill in world history. COREXIT 9500 and 9527’s became a global controversy during the BP oil spill and cleanup in the Gulf Coast in 2010.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
GoLocalProv: Controversial Chemical Used in Oil Spills, Banned in Many Countries, Can Be Used in Narragansett Bay
Controversial Chemical Used in Oil Spills, Banned in Many Countries, Can Be Used in Narragansett Bay
This article features Government Accountability Project and was originally published here.
A chemical dispersant that is linked to making thousands of members of the Coast Guard as well as clean-up workers sick in the Gulf oil spill of 2010 is authorized to be used in Narragansett Bay.
The chemical dispersant called COREXIT is banned in nearly two dozen countries including the United Kingdom and Sweden.
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster was the largest U.S. oil spill and second-largest overall oil spill in world history. COREXIT 9500 and 9527’s became a global controversy during the BP oil spill and cleanup in the Gulf Coast in 2010.
Walking RI: Over the rivers and through the woods on Mount Tom Trail
By John Kostrzewa
EXETER The Wood River winds gently for miles through a dense forest in the Arcadia Management Area in South County.
It’s hard to believe that 70 years ago a wildfire burned and scarred 8,000 acres of timberland around the river.
But a forward-thinking reforestation project planted 690,000 seedlings that have grown into thick stands of pine, beech and oak and regenerated one of the finest hiking and recreation areas in Rhode Island.
That’s a lesson in recovering from a crisis that seems especially pertinent these days.