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Suburbs
do battle over phone antennae
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By Sue Lowe
November 10, 2003
Residents in at least eight Sydney suburbs are fighting the
mobile
telephone company Hutchison over the location of new antennae
for its 3G
network.
Groups at Oatley, Minchinbury, Castle Hill, Bilgola, Como, Gymea
Bay,
Engadine and Woolooware are embroiled in disputes with the company.
Some were inspired by the apparent success of Oatley residents,
who
after a year-long battle forced Hutchison to remove a pole it
had
illegally erected to house an antenna.
However, it may have been a short-lived victory, as Hutchison
has now
outlined plans for another site in the park, just 50 metres
away from
the first.
Anne Wagstaff, an Oatley protester, questioned the public demand
for
Hutchison's 3G technology - the first to support video calls
- which so
far has only 50,000 subscribers Australia-wide.
"Do we really need video phone technology, and at what price?"
she asked.
Residents of the Pittwater suburb of Bilgola are concerned about
the
visual impact of an 11-metre structure on their headland reserve.
As part of the rollout of its 3G mobile network, Hutchison has
installed
more than 500 new antennae throughout Sydney.
While older GSM mobile technology required one antenna every
five
kilometres, 3G needs them to be 1.5 to three kilometres apart.
A spokeswoman for Hutchison said that wherever possible it had
put them
with those of other telephone companies or utility providers,
to avoid
new structures.
Several disputes, including one at Minchinbury, hinge on the
unknown
long-term health implications of the antennae.
One local, Michelle Bass, said the original proposed site was
just 200
metres from the primary school and close to homes.
"Asbestos wasn't seen as a hazard until there had been years
of
long-term exposure," she said. "People just don't know what
the
long-term effects will be."
Under existing legislation, phone companies are not required
to obtain
council approval to install antennae on existing poles as long
as the
new equipment is deemed to have a low visual impact. However,
they are
required to consult local people.
Several groups, including the one in Como, have claimed Hutchison
has
not consulted, or has been divisive in which sections of a community
it
has chosen to talk to.
Hutchison says that in several cases, including Minchinbury,
a
compromise site has been reached through community consultation.
This story was found at:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/09/1068329423322.html
Informant: Dr Miguel Muntané
Omega: see also http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/08/1057430209500.html
and http://www.oatleypark.com/
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Gauss
News of October 2003
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1) In Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu Electric Power Co. broke off
talks
with nature conservation organizations and residents groups
in August
and started felling forests and erecting pylons for a 500,000
volt power
line which the company intends to make operational in July 2006.
The
conservationists and residents had been calling urgently for
Kyushu
Electric to reroute the line. The forest has been recognized
as habitat
for an endangered species of mushroom, which is seen as a barometer
of
the naturalness of that forest type. The company said it saw
no hope of
reaching an agreement acceptable to all, so it simply broke
off talks
and brought out the bulldozers.
On September 6, at a general meeting of the Zenkoku Shizenhogo
Rengo
(All Japan Nature Conservation League), a resolution was adopted
protesting Kyushu Electric’s tactics and calling for cessation
of
construction and redrafting of plans for the power line.
Note: these tactics are typical of Japan’s government and big
businesses, and citizens have virtually no power to defend their
own
property, health or environment.
2) In Tokyo’s Nerima Ward, residents were astounded to learn
that a
public health consultation office had moved to a location directly
under
high-tension lines. The controversy regarding EMF is well known
here.
The move appears to have been a PR move to bolster Tokyo Electric
Power
Co.’s claims of safety, which were thrown into doubt by the
publication
earlier this year of research results on assessment of health
risks to
children from EMF in their living environment. Also, the cash-strapped
Tokyo government probably found a cheaper deal in purchasing
land next
to a pylon. One wonders what kinds of deals go on behind closed
doors.
3) Also in Nerima Ward, residents gathered more than 7500 signatures
in
opposition to the placement of a cell phone mast atop an apartment
building. The matter has not yet been resolved one way or the
other. It
has been policy in Japan to provide no explanation to the inhabitants
of
apartment buildings where antennas are planned to be installed,
but
recently, owners are feeling some pressure to provide a questionnaire
and reassuring literature in order to head off disputes.
4) On August 30, the newspapers reported that the 17 commuter
train
companies in the Kanto area had decided to relax rules against
cell
phone use on their trains. In the past, they encouraged everyone
to keep
their cell phones turned off in recognition of the hazard to
persons
with pacemakers trapped in a sardine-like setting during rush
hour. Now
they allow texting, and anyone who wants to escape the hazard
must try
to find a place immediately by the Silver Seats, which are designated
for elderly, handicapped or pregnant passengers, where cell
phone use is
still prohibited though there is no clear demarcation.
On a rush-hour train, it is impossible to move except with the
crowd.
People are pushed against their will into and out of Silver
Seat areas.
One may spend an hour or more in immediate, tight physical contact
with
five or six others under conditions of near suffocation, and
Heaven
forbid there should be an accident, such as a suicide—very
common—because then every cell phone in the place whips to the
alert. I
for one quit a job I loved and accepted a lower standard of
living to
avoid this after I became aware it was harming my health.
It would make better sense to have some cars designated okay
for texting
and prohibit use in other cars. In April 1997, the Ministry
of Posts and
Telecommunications reported that a digital cell phone operating
in the
800 MHz band with maximum power of 0.8 W (burst value) caused
a
pacemaker to malfunction at distances of up to 30 cm (field
strength of
0.7 W/m2). By contrast, ICNIRP’s reference level for public
exposure at
1 GHz is 5 W/m2, which cannot be considered a safe level for
pacemakers,
digital hearing aids and other medical devices. Recent research
in Japan
has found that reflection and overlap of EMW in metal-enclosed
spaces
such as trains can produce field strengths exceeding even ICNIRP’s
standards. Persons with pacemakers have felt uneasy about cell
phone use
aboard trains, and efforts to educate the public, such as posters
in
train stations, probably helped them to some degree. Also there
was
apparently some progress being made with regard to enforcing
cell phone
restrictions, but the current decision of the train companies
is a big
step backward.
This decision hurts not only people with pacemakers. According
to one
survey, 21% of passengers were uncomfortable about others using
cell
phones to send e-mail on the trains, and 12% were uncomfortable
about
others having their cell phones switched on.
Shocked by the train companies’ decision, Tetsu Kawai wrote
a letter
protesting this decision and sent it to one newspaper, which
failed to
publish it, and a second newspaper, which also failed to publish
it. (My
experiences here have been identical.)
So he called up the train companies, asking them to explain
the
rationale for their decision. They responded simply that having
various
rules among different companies was causing confusion, so they
decided
to make them uniform and adopted the laxest. They refused to
answer why
they chose the laxest (but I think I know why: I once vehemently
protested the prominent and ubiquitous cell phone advertisements
taking
space on turnstiles and other train company property. Public
transportation should for everyone, not just a tyrannical minority
and
those who can tolerate them.) They seem intent on putting a
lid on
complaints.
Only one company, Keisei, listened politely to Mr. Kawai’s complaint
and
gave a relatively decent response, “We are unhappy about the
way this
decision was made, but we were in a difficult position. We will
at least
enforce the switch-off rule by the Silver Seats, with clear
indications
on the hand straps and other places, and on new trains we will
draw
lines demarking the zones.”
The responses of the three companies on whose trains Mr. Kawai
rides
regularly were particularly poor, so he took a day off from
work in
September and visited the headquarters of two of the companies
and a
customer service office of the third to hand deliver letters
addressed
to the company presidents, attaching his unpublished letter
to the
newspapers.
I will translate his letter later this week.
5) On November 8, a lecture was given by Tsuyoshi Hondo of Tohoku
University on Reflection and Overlapping of High Frequency
Electromagnetic Waves, Taking the Example of Passive Exposure
from
Cellular Phones Aboard Trains. His research has shown that theoretically
it is possible for EMF values aboard trains where many cell
phones are
in use simultaneously to exceed international safety standards
by a wide
margin, and he is trying to warn the public of the danger. When
I have
more information on how this went, I will send it.
Sincerely
Pat Ormsby
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Meeting
in the Ministry of Health
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Suddenly I received a mail from the Council of Health, that
I should
give a 10 min. presentation about the REFLEX report, and tell
them if
the report can be used at all in connection with the 3G mast
discussion.
I can see the purpose of it: they want to go out to the media
and the
population and tell them, that now I have admitted , that the
Reflex
report is completely irrelevant to the discussion and that they
knew it
all the time. So there is no proof that masts can give cancer.
However, this has never been said, but one can always turn the
truth
upside down, if it is convenient.
Sianette Kwee
and
How
to turn the truth upside down: Re: Meeting in the Ministry of
Health
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Dear Sianette Kwee
REFLEX can be seen as a way to study how to study.
To speak about “theory” and reports… is a good method to turn
the truth
upside down and best delay tactic.
I suggest to keep the attention only on practical health alteration:
BBB
and chromosome damage.
Best regards
Miguel Muntané
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We
need help
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On November 2003
Palo Alto CA. USA
Ed. Kats wrote.
Dear Klaus.
As I wrote to you before, my family was forcefully subjected
to became
Human Guinea Pigs in classified medical research conducted by
the
............... During routine operations while being under
the general
anesthesia, doctors involving in classified researses, implanted
plantation of microchips into the heads of the member of the
Kats
family. One of the main courses of studies is exploring
program-involving studies of human eyes. Most of the chipsets
implanted
into our sculls are perfectly visible on X-ray but surgical
removal will
involve loss of vision, vegetation of death. Some details of
this
draconian experiment could be review in our site: www.wass.8m.com
I would like to ask visitors of your site:
How possibly we can protect ourselves to eliminate interception
of
transmitted in our heads waves?
Perhaps somebody know what type of waves is being transmitted
and on
what type of frequencies our body is function on?
Is it existing anything that could dysfunction chip implanted
into the
human body without surgical involvements and anyhow effecting
environments of the human body?
Please help us to provide information in regards of our questions.
Sincerely. Edward Kats.
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Anti-tobacco
victory (excerpt)
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To All - Please indulge my enthusiasm about the success of the
Project
Citizen program directed by my husband and his teaching partner
for the
English and Social Studies curricula in their middle school
8th grade
classes for the Marshfield and Plainfield, Vermont communities.
For
information on how to establish a Project Citizen program in
your local
schools see: http://www.civiced.org/crs_index.php
Janet Newton
Students win against tobacco ads
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/bfpnews/local/3000h.htm
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themes:
Survey: Half of Americans, say the war was not worth it
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003
/11/10/national1801EST0690.DTL
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5188.htm
Soros's Deep Pockets vs. Bush
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24179-2003Nov10?
language=printer
Families of Iraq war dead condemn Bush visit to UK
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=461995
“My Son Died For Oil”
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/11/156207
New textbooks rewrite history in Iraq through omission
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