Dear
Klaus,
Please forward
the attached (Omega: Base-station
update December 2002)
to your correspondent in Berkeley, California - it might be of some help
in his fight!
Best regards,
Gerard J Hyland
Dear Klaus,
Please be
so kind as to forward this to your new member in Berkely, CA.
Hello,
I am
fighting a cellular installation in Los Angeles, CA and I will
save you a lot of time by telling you that your plan to argue the health
issues is a waste of time, those arguments will not be heard by your city
council. The 1996 Tele-Comm Act prohibits local municipalities from making
decisions on these installations based on health concerns, so those arguments
are dismissed immediately and usually the board or council will not even
hear tem on the record, lest the cellular company sue them for being swayed
by those factors in its decision if they do ultimately deny the request.
Your best
bet -- argue aesthetics, argue that the cellular company has not done
due diligence in co-location possibilities, argue they don't need any
more cellular facilities in the area (in my case Cingular is trying to
put a new base station in when they have a base station 1/10 of a mile
from the proposed site and another one 3/10 of a mile away from the proposed
site.
Our strongest
argument is that if they can not properly service the area with the two
base stations they already have within walking distance, then they should
find and utilize better technology, not clutter blocks after block with
more and more equipments stations.)
Get ahold
of the staff report and any other reports base don the approval and start
hacking away at them, find any little thing that is wrong, not justified,
or unreasonable, inaccurate, etc., and dig in. Do your research, find
evidence and articles and studies to support your claims, but don't waste
your time on the health issues or in having people write emails to decision-makers
saying "base-station antennas are invisible, silent, and odorless
adversaries to health", because even though you're right, they won't
legally be able to hear the argument, and the efforts among those who
write in for you will be useless, when they could have written a letter
to support a position that the council or board will listen to and possibly
agree with.
Best of
luck to you. You can win, you just have to fight the way they need you
to!
Jessica
Hi Klaus:
More
on Dr. Jean Monro. For the many of us out there who have had
our accounts of our ES/EHS symptoms dismissed by doctors as no more than
delusions and sent on our way voluntarily or involuntarily to psychiatrists,
it will be uplifting to read that one of the world's leading authorities
on environmental illnesses and allergies, Dr. Jean Monro, came close to
experiencing a similar mishap some thirty years ago.
An article
on Food Allergies, in THE TIMES, 25 February, 2002 begins with "When
she suggested her son had a wheat allergy, Dr. Jean Monro was taken to
see a psychiatrist. More than thirty years on, much of her career has
been spent being stigmatised as eccentric. Now she is one of the country's
leading experts on food allergies with her own specialist clinic but says
the subject is still taboo in medical science." (To access the entire
article, enter "Dr. Jean Monro, Food Allergies" in Goggle search
engine and roll to entry 17.)
Of course,
any ES sufferer within the EU should be able to avail of established EU
Specialist Medical Treatment Abroad legislation which means the patient's
cost of treatment in a host country could be underwritten by the Health
Board of her/his own country.
Best, Imelda,
Cork
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