Families have won their battle to stop a mobile phone mast from being installed opposite their homes, after councillors agreed it would be an eyesore...
Norwich Evening News
Plans for two new mobile phone masts over 45ft high in Norwich have been
submitted - and a further application for one over 55ft is expected soon.
A science project by two boys on the health effects of cellphone masts has won high praise from leading researchers - and may lead to the mast at their school being removed.
Canada s federal health agency maintains Wi-Fi is safe. 'We don t know the long-term effects of Wi-Fi,' said Health Canada's top radiation researcher Beth Pieterson. 'From all evidence we have today, there is no evidence based on international experts...
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From: NoRadiationForYou
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 12:46 PM
Subject: Join In , send a request for better EMR/EMF standards!
Do you want the WHO (World Health Organization) to adopt new EMF (electromagnetic radiation) standards that protect people and not the industry?
AVAAZ ( http://www.avaaz.org/en/about.php ) is a nonprofit organization with more than 9000000 members, that operate from 192 countries and in 14 different languages.
Recently I got an email (from Emma, an EMR awareness activist from new Zealand) calling me to fill in a request for AVAAZ to act on to put pressure on the WHO to adopt new EMR standards that take into consideration biological effects and cumulative exposures. I have decided to replay Emmas email and to fill in the request. Now I call upon you friends, activists and my readers, to do the same.
'Please lobby the WHO to promote a precautionary approach to public health and safety; reject the current ICNIRP EMF guidelines and develop new safety standards which take into account biological effects and cumulative exposures.
Thanks a lot!'
Please feel free to forward this email to friends, relatives and people you know.
Together we can make a difference!!!
Thanks in advance!
No Rad(Amir)
Informant: Iris Atzmon
If any of your subject matter experts or activists would be willing to submit a more substantive case, please encourage them to do so.
If you decide this is an idea worth supporting, I d love to know. Many other EMF-concerned organizations have already started circulating the request through their networks, and perhaps our collective response will be sufficient for Avaaz to take action.
Hart said that nearly all of the protesters were prepared to be arrested for the cause because of what they say are alarming health risks posed by the meters and the electromagnetic radiation they emit. That radiation, Hart said, will cause long-term...
Think I have written about this before for the list... It is my & Chellis Glendinning s article that appeared in Counter Punch and later in Energy Bulletin that John is quoting. There are several generations of meter technologies:
1. Old analog with dials requiring meter readers to come up to the meter. (Systems reliable, good for jobs, not optimal for corporate profits)
2. First generation RF meters that accumulated usage data and released it wirelessly to a van that would pull in the drive or cruise the neighborhood and 'call' for usage information at each house/business. Meters generated RF once a month and automatically shut off. (Required a meter reader who did not have to get out of a vehicle. Systems less reliable, better for corporate profits, fewer meter readers due to more efficient use of their time.)
3. Smart meters - completely wireless, no need for meter readers of any kind. (Optimal for long term corporate profits since taxpayers largely upfront-funded investment through the federal stimulus package. Bad for long-term jobs but good for short term temp positions. Cost shifting onto the medical/insurance sector. National Grid security uncertain but Wall Street and Green investors love it....) In Connecticut where I live, Northeast Utilities (NEU) put first generation RF meters on homes about 5-7 years ago. I refused to allow it and worked directly with their corporate meter manager (who was already familiar with my work) to find a way around. For a year, I read our meters and did a fine job but they weren t comfortable with that indefinitely. Every month when I called in my readings to a live person, their computers automatically issued work orders to replace the meters on the main and guest house on our property and the whole thing constantly involved some sort of human correction to stop it. New installers kept showing up because the system had told them to. Managers were constantly having to override the orders. So I could understand their in-flux system problems, too. Eventually it got squared away with some software adjustments but it was labor intensive for everyone, including me. At the time, there were no alternatives offered to residential customers. But it turns out that in already high RF environments - near broadcast facilities, military areas, airports, some research/medical/university facilities etc. - first generation meters wouldn t work anyway because there was too much environmental RF causing interference already. They could not get accurate readings. So, they had become adept at using landlines that connected directly to the meters. Usage is called for daily, typically at night, by an automated system. That s what they connected us up to, by special request. But it took coordination by them with AT&T, which the local installers considered a pain. (The utility couldn t just connect to the phone lines - they dont own them and vice versa.) And for us it meant that switching landline phone companies would be difficult if not impossible. I recently tried to bundle landline service with our cable TV service and cable TV had absolutely NO way to accommodate anything like that. Same for web-based phone connections like SKYPE. This is by way of saying, understand what you are asking and what you are tying yourself into if you go this route. At the time, Schlumberger made two models used by NEU. One gave off regular pulses. The other, only when data was called for. NEU used the latter. Fruitful areas of inquiry for those trying to help set policy in California and elsewhere... Ask what their reading/metering systems are now for high RF environments? Clearly, there must be some sort of dedicated line for major users like universities, etc. as there are too many possibilities for error with the frequencies used so close to consumer wireless products. They say that smart meters are encrypted but I do not know if this is their way around the RFI potential problems. Needs clarification from a grid engineer. I am lucky in CT as I was not asking them to change entire state/regional meter policy and what they could do, they already were doing for corporate clients. This is likely true in many states. We have also been at the same property since 1983. If we moved around often, it would obviously be a lot tougher. And in newer construction, homes aren t even wired for landline phones anymore... a whole other challenge. What s reasonable re: policy requests:
1. Ask utilities to make available the same wired usage systems as corporate clients with potential RFI problems.
2. Assume that there will have to be extra coordination between the utility and your phone company and that this will take more time and possibly upfront expense although in our case it did not.
3. Since AT&T has petitioned the FCC to allow them to abandon their landline system altogether, we should begin to approach big players like Google and Microsoft who are also getting into fiberoptic/entertainment/highspeed internet to provide a utility interface for residential electricity usage. There is money to be made there for them... they just need to know there is demand.
4. Find the right in-house systems engineers and/or entrepreneurs (who can patent their own work) to design an easy interface between electric meters and myriad wired networks via copper landlines or fiberoptic. Such interfaces may already exist and we just need to push them to the forefront of requests to grid designers...
5. Pressure the DOE for a safer 'smart wired grid' because that s where this is coming from. They love wireless & nuclear.
6. Understand that the smart grid as currently designed hits none of it's marks but that its main objectives of saving energy/lowering carbon emissions through realtime information made available to residential users is attainable via small plug-in meters that will give constant readouts without going wireless. GE makes them. We don't have to redesign then entire grid to get this function. They can offer such info plug-ins through billing for a price and make money that way too.
7. Call legislators on the ethics of this as a big handout to the largest corporations on the planet, for next to no return for taxpayers, and likely danger to health and the environment. There s is nearly no upside to this and it's just a question of time before Wall Street catches on to the longterm bait & switch about to go down.
8. In cases of multiple meters needed for water & gas too, using landlines might not be possible without installing dedicated lines just for them at customer cost. Copper can only carry so much information load. Fiberoptic, though, would be able to accommodate all comers. If we are asking for national policy changes, we need to know what's reasonable, doable, and what will work...
Best,
Blake Levitt.
Think twice about smart meters
Portland Daily Sun
The problem is that CMPs meters communicate by wireless radio-frequency non-ionizing radiation (man-made RF radiation). Many organisms such as birds, fish, marine mammals, bees, ants and butterflies use naturally occurring electromagnetic fields to...
New electric meters sparking protests in Oakland, Macomb counties
Royal Oak Daily Tribune
But opponents of smart meters say it is unwise to wait for science to catch up with the health risks associated with electromagnetic radiation, which is increasing due to the explosion of modern electrical devices...
PLANS to develop listed military buildings along with 4500 new houses in Aldershot have put paid to plans to install a new mobile phone mast at the top of Hospital Hill. The victory for buildings conservation experts comes as people will...
Thousands of peerreviewed scientific studies showing the hazards of electromagnetic radiation cannot be considered anecdotal evidence. And if Wi-Fi was to prove to be a hazard in this experiment, a gratuitous 'blanket ban' of all EMR-emitting devices ...
A CAMPAIGN group set up to fight the erection of a mobile phone mast in Belper has commissioned an epidemiology study into any health implications of masts. Belper Against Masts (BAM), which is primarily opposed to a mast at the junction of Marsh Lane...
A NEW mobile phone mast that courted much controversy in Belper has been built ? despite objections from residents, a school and the town s MP. Furious locals began a campaign in March after Amber Valley Borough Council passed plans for a mast on the...
Campaigners 'will keep fighting' against mast put up overnight
TMC Net
It recommended a 'precautionary approach' be taken to siting masts until further research was done. A spokesman for O2 said the report was part of the national guidelines they followed - the Code of Best Practice on Mobile Phone Network Development...
Alison Napier will open her garden to the public on Sunday 7th August A
CAMPAIGN group set up to fight against the building of a mobile phone mast
in Belper, claims a staggering 99 per cent of residents it spoke to were
not consulted before the mast ...
A PLANNING application for a mobile phone mast in Belper has been refused by Amber Valley Borough Council. Telecommunications giants Vodafone and O2 had applied to erect a 12.8-metre high pole, an equipment cabinet and minor ancillary works...
2 degrees has reduced the power from one of their cellphone transmitters in Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand, in response to a doctor being made shockingly ill shortly after a microwave radiation transmitter was installed in the street.
2 degrees told the family the power didn t need to be so high as it couldn t get around the mountain anyway. So why was its output so high in the first place?
Bad behaviour based on bad regulations? The doctor is still very electrosensitive.
Rob
TAIWAN will consider banning mobile phones from schools
Health risks from proposed cell tower worry Pictou County man living near site
TheChronicleHerald.ca
By MONICA GRAHAM
A cellphone tower that would expand mobile telephone service on Nova Scotia s north shore may also cause health problems, says a neighbour of the proposed site. 'When I first heard about it, I thought it was great because we have such ...
Note - This is a very sad story about a little girl with cancer.
When you are reading it, think about the scientific links between leukemia and other cancers and electro magnetic fields and microwave radiation.
Questions:
Could the illnesses have been prevented if the family knew about the dangers?
Did any doctor or health care worker warn the family to avoid EMFs and wireless radiation?
Did any public medical authority attend at the home, to check for high EMFs and wireless radiation?
Are the medical authorities even aware of EMF effects and the links to cancer?
Become involved as an EMF activist, in the effort to stop this type of harm!
Martin Weatherall
The tumor is a new cancer, T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma. ... Sophie s brain tumor was chance. Now, because of the damage, she will keep getting cancer...
First, it is important to explain why Caribarena got considerably high readings on the cell towers, while this independent study got very low ones. In our study, as we clearly expressed in our articles, we used the IEMFAs Seletun Scientific limits for cell tower radiation. Skvarca, in his study, chose to use the 'internationally accepted' ICNIRP guidelines.
The two are very different, but perhaps one needs some revision. The Council of Europe has stated that the ICNIRP guidelines have 'serious limitations,' and that they need to be revised to take into account a lot of modern research. The ICNIRP guidelines only take into account thermal effects, and completely ignore all biological effects. This means that unless you are made physically hotter by the waves, there is nothing to worry about. This is crucially incorrect, as the Council of Europe has expressed.
Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
&
Professor
The Royal Institute of Technology
100 44 Stockholm
Sweden)
'I urge you to invest your resources into exploring alternatives including mobile mast sharing'. Earlier this month Campaigners held a protest picnic on the site and it attracted national attention when Channel 5's The Wright Stuff filmed the...
Barnsley Council is to commission an independent assessment into the health impacts of a mobile phone mast in a village. Residents in Bolton-on Dearne have signed a petition calling for the mast to be moved. The council turned down Vodafone s...
AN INDEPENDENT assessment is to be carried out into possible health implications of a controversial mobile phone mast erected in a South Yorkshire village. Barnsley Council is commissioning the study after more than 1000 residents in Bolton-on-Dearne...
Cell Phone Use and Salivary...
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