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| Victoria researcher teaching others to combat wireless radiation | |
| Canada | Created: 1 Sep 2010 |
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VANCOUVER — Kerry Crofton travels with a land line phone, purposely stays in hotels that don’t offer wireless Internet in rooms and, when she gives her talk Tuesday night on the topic of wireless radiation, it will be in a downtown Vancouver venue selected because it purportedly has no such radiation. The Victoria-based health researcher is promoting her new book, Wireless Radiation Rescue, said to be the first consumer guide to reducing levels of electromagnetic radiation in homes, offices and schools. Some would argue Crofton’s beliefs are extreme. A B.C. study a few years ago concluded there may be one extra case of childhood leukemia every two years because of power lines. Health Canada, meanwhile, has issued statements denying the health threat from wireless technology and cellphones. “Based on scientific evidence, Health Canada has determined that exposure to low-level radio-frequency energy, such as that from Wi-Fi systems, is not dangerous to the public,” said a statement from the federal agency. On another occasion, Health Canada said it “currently sees no scientific reason to consider the use of cellphones as unsafe . . . and there is no convincing evidence of increased risk of disease from exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields from cellphones.” But Crofton, who has a doctoral degree in health psychology, has spent the last five years collecting research on radiation from power lines, cellphones, cordless phones, wireless Internet, computers, baby monitors and microwaves. She’s convinced that government standards meant to be protective are too lenient. And while cellphone industry-sponsored research may show no impacts, other studies do show biological effects causing symptoms such as headaches, heart effects, decreased fertility and neurological disorders. Crofton has three decades of experience devising wellness and heart-health programs for air traffic controllers, pilots, nurses, teachers and others. Until she started doing her research, Crofton was like most people: She wanted the latest, fastest technology. “It’s not that I am against technology now. The Internet is extraordinary. Computers are essential. I just make sure that I have mine set up as a fully wired system, without the wireless mouse, without the wireless monitor and without the wireless router.” She acknowledges that not all people will experience symptoms of such radiation. “Absolutely, there are some people who are more electro-sensitive than others,” she said. “But I think in places like schools, we should be using the precautionary principal.” Recently, a British scientist waded into the issue of wireless networks in Canadian schools, warning generations could face genetic disorders because of prolonged exposure to low-level microwaves. “Children are not small adults, they are underdeveloped adults, so there are different symptoms,” said Barrie Trower, who specialized in microwave “stealth” warfare during the Cold War. “What you are doing in schools is transmitting at low levels,” said Trower, who teaches at Britain’s Dartmoor College. |
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| Source: Times Colonist, Pamela Fayerman, 31 Aug 2010 | |
| Hempstead Town Proposes New Cell Tower Legislation | |
| USA | Created: 1 Sep 2010 |
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With cell tower proposals in Merrick and neighboring communities gaining opposition, the Town of Hempstead is taking action to try and minimize those erected in close proximity to residential properties. A proposed new Hempstead ordinance announced Tuesday morning, which still needs to be approved by the Town Council, is aimed at making telecommunication companies "meet the highest standard of proof in establishing the need for cell towers." One feature of the proposed law would be not allowing cell towers or antennas within 1,500 feet of homes, houses of worship, day care centers and schools, unless the telecommunications provider can prove the need for such a facility in that location. The legislation would also require wireless companies to provide documentation that proves the need for a tower or antennae, such as service gaps in the area, and to present a checklist to determine whether existing cell phone sites could accommodate additional equipment. "Our proposal pushes the wireless communications industry to locate equipment at sites that minimize the negative aspects to our local communities," said Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray during a press conference announcing the proposed law at the site of where a cell tower plan was defeated in Franklin Square two years ago. "We are really putting the telecommunications industry to the strictest test." The law would impact all future cell tower applications in the Town of Hempstead as well as existing proposals scheduled to go before the BZA. This includes T-Mobile's proposal to install a cell tower at the North Merrick Library. Charles Kovit, senior deputy attorney for the Town of Hempstead, said T-Mobile has been in communication with him over the proposed law and he expects the wireless provider to be complying with the town's new standards for cell tower applications prior to the hearing. In response to Hempstead's proposed law T-Mobile spokeswoman Jane Builder issued a statement that reads in part, "Ordinances that make it unnecessarily difficult and time consuming for wireless companies to improve their networks will result in more dropped calls, slower data processing and weaker in-home coverage for families while reducing the competitive ability of local businesses." Kovit first announced the Town of Hempstead's intention to adopt a new ordinance banning cell towers or antennas within 1,500 feet of residential areas during a community meeting at Wantagh High School on Aug. 16 attended by over 200 people. The Hempstead Town Board is scheduled to vote on the proposed legislation at its Sept. 21 meeting. The Town of Hempstead also announced that it has tapped national wireless communications expert Richard Comi to review applications and provide objective testimony on cell phone tower applications that come before the BZA. Comi described Hempstead's proposed legislation as "the most aggressive available under the 1996 Telecommunications Act." |
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| Source: Patch.com, Andrew Coen, 31 Aug 2010 | |
| Cell tower opponents will meet, Woodland Hills, CA, Sept 2 with Havas & Kelley | |
| Canada | Created: 30 Aug 2010 |
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Cell tower opponents will meet The SoCal chapter of REACT (Residents Engaged Against Cell Towers) will host a free talk at 8 p.m. Thurs., Sept. 2 at Temple Aliyah, 6025 Valley Circle Blvd., Woodland Hills. International EMF health specialists Dr. Magda Havas, associate professor of environmental and resource studies at Trent University, and Libby Kelley, founder of the Electromagnetic Safety Alliance, will give a presentation on “Cell Antennas, Phones and Wi-Fi: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Family.” The public is invited to attend. Havas has studied the biological effects of electromagnetic pollution, including radio frequency radiation, electromagnetic fields, dirty electricity and ground current. She will explain why citizens should be concerned about potential health risks related to electromagnetic radiation, especially among children and teens, pregnant women and people with immune problems. Kelley will present information on public advocacy needs and policy developments as well as the implications of new cellphone “right-to-know” legislation in San Francisco. REACT is a coalition of Southern California residents who object to cell antenna installations near homes and schools and who have a history of stopping such installations within their communities. For more information, call Rina Baraz Nehdar at (818) 991-1441 or e-mail nellieblye@yahoo.com. |
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| Source: Iris Atzmon/Agnes Ingvarsdottir | |
| Barrie Trower\'s interview on Canadian radio | |
| United Kingdom | Created: 30 Aug 2010 |
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Please all, listen to this Very Important interview with Barry Thrower!!! http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=1573543914 |
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| Source: EG/Agnes Ingvarsdottir | |
| Dismantle illegal antenna (Preveza) In Greek and English | |
| Greece | Created: 29 Aug 2010 |
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Ξήλωσαν παράνομη κεραία (Μύτικας Πρέβεζας) Κάτοικοι και παραθεριστές του Δημοτικού Διαμερίσματος του Μύτικα, Πρέβεζας ξήλωσαν χθες την παράνομα τοποθετημένη κεραίας κινητής τηλεφωνίας από ταράτσα ξενοδοχείου της περιοχής. Μέλη της επιτροπής κατά των παράνομων κεραιών, μαζί με τον δήμαρχο, ανέβηκαν στην ταράτσα και απομάκρυναν την καμινάδα μέσα στην οποία ήταν τοποθετημένη η κεραία. Η απόφαση για την απομάκρυνση της κεραίας πάρθηκε με ομόφωνη απόφαση του Δημοτικού Συμβουλίου Πρέβεζας, αλλά και των κατοίκων του Μύτικα, οι οποίοι σε γενική συνέλευση αποφάσισαν την άμεση απομάκρυνση της εγκατάστασης. http://wp.me/p9wSG-sO Πηγή: epirusgate.blogspot.com Antennas in Greece http://wp.me/p9wSG-sO Residents and tourists of the Municipal District of Mytikas, Preveza yesterday dismantled illegally placed mobile antenna from hotel terrace area. Members of the Committee against illegal satellite dishes, along with the mayor, went on the roof and removed the chimney into which was placed the antenna. The decision to remove the antenna was taken unanimously by the City Council of Preveza, and residents of Mytikas, which in general meeting decided to immediately remove the installation. Source: epirusgate.blogspot.com |
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| Source: Enrico Grani/Agnes Ingvarsdottir | |
| CBC POLL: Please cast your vote and pass along – anyone can vote worldwide. | |
| Canada | Created: 29 Aug 2010 |
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CBC is running a poll on WIFI and whether it is safe for children. Since there is not a single safety study on children, this is the achilles heel of the industry. Make sure everyone knows it. CBC POLL http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/08/wi-fi-are-you-worried-about-possible-health-risks.html Please cast your vote and pass along – anyone can vote worldwide. Una St Clair-Moniz Executive Director Citizens for Safe Technology Society www.citizensforsafetechnology.org Protecting children & wildlife from unsafe wireless technologies |
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| Source: Agnes Ingvarsdottir | |
| MP backs residents in mobile mast row | |
| United Kingdom | Created: 28 Aug 2010 |
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MORE than 300 residents have signed a petition calling for a telecommunications firm to scrap plans for a controversial phone mast. MP Bill Cash has handed the list of those opposed to the Cheadle scheme to Staffordshire Moorlands District Council. Members of the recently-formed Cheadle Mast Action Group collected the names. They are campaigning against Vodafone's plans to build a 50ft (15 metre) structure in Brookhouse Way. The firm is waiting to see if the council will approve its application for a certificate of lawfulness. That document would prove the firm complied with planning regulations when it started to install the mast. Vodafone began work in March despite residents being told the company had been refused planning permission. The firm argued it could go ahead because notice of refusal had not been received from the council within a stipulated period. Conservative MP for Stone Mr Cash, who is backing the residents, said he had now handed over the petition, which urges the council to reject the certificate for lawfulness. He added: "The council's original decision was welcomed by my constituents, who had objected vigorously against the proposed mast for several reasons, in particular its visual impact, the damaging effect it would have on house values in the area and its close proximity to family homes. "I have contacted the chief executive of Vodafone to inform them of our opposition and I have also asked Cheadle Town Council for their support." The application will go before the borough council's planning application committee on September 9. Greenways residents Martin and Lindy Lane, who helped launch the action group, have vowed to carry on their fight. Mr Lane, a 47-year-old financial adviser, said: "The group will be represented at the meeting in September to make sure the council knows the position of the residents on this one. "If the application is refused, Vodafone will probably have to look elsewhere if they want to pursue the development. "We have said all along we are happy to talk to them and suggest alternative sites in the area where we think a mast would be more suitable." A Vodafone spokesman confirmed it had submitted a certificate of lawfulness application for the site. "This is an opportunity for the council to consider whether consent already exists for the site," he added. "It won't go into issues such as the visual impact or the site selection process. "We understand that some people have concerns about the siting of masts, but, in order for us to provide a good network for mobile phones and mobile data services, we must have masts where people use the services – where they live, work and travel." |
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| Source: This is Staffordshire, adam blakeman, 24 Aug 2010 | |
| Telecom dirty tactics: O2 vowes to crush community resistance | |
| United Kingdom | Created: 28 Aug 2010 |
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MOBILE phone giant 02 has vowed to continue putting in planning applications for phone masts in Chafford Hundred until it is successful. Thurrock Council’s planning department rejected 02’s most recent application to erect a 41 foot phone mast on the corner of Warren Lane and Clock House Lane on Thursday night (August 26). Officers recommended the committee refused it on the grounds that it would have a detrimental impact on the amenities and outlook of the house nearest to it, and it also raises concerns about highways and pedestrian safety. 02 spokesman Jim Stevenson said at the meeting: “The last time I was here in March the application was knocked back. “We are going to put appeals in and we are very confident we will get them however long it takes us. “It was a surprise to me to find that this application had been refused. The officer did not indicate at the site visit he would recommend it for refusal.” The Gazette has followed the progress of campaign group No More Masts on Chafford who recently made their own documentary highlighting the dangers of a proposed mast in the area. Lize Ringelmann, spokesman for No More Masts on Chafford said: “We are ecstatic about the councillors decision to reject the plans and we were quite upset when O2 were saying it is not a busy road, when it really is. “02 have showed their arrogance by saying they are going keep appealing their planning applications. I hope they will come to their senses and look further a-field. “We are going to keep campaigning and we will stand behind any other residents who are in the same situation.” Ward councillor for South Chafford, Tunde Ojetola, who spoke in opposition at the meeting said afterwards: “We have mixed feelings, it’s good news the planning committee agreed with the officers recommendations. But I am concerned with 02’s veiled threat that they will just keep putting in more applications until they get what they want. “02 is a big company and they are throwing their weight around hoping residents will get tired of fighting. The residents will not give up.” |
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| Source: Thurrock Gazette, 27 Aug 2010 | |
| A new blog: Reaching Out To All Cell Phone Users & Mobile Phone Users | |
| USA | Created: 28 Aug 2010 |
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If the Telecom Companies can build the Technology as amazingly as they do, then there is with the health concerns facing our civilisation (and civilization) the reason why they should address the cellphone radiation concerns and therein our health concerns: We as a Community must be vigilant in our support (buying power) and thus encourage them achieve this Technology: WE MUST HELP THEM. PLEASE for the sake of our Health and for the leading edge competitiveness for our Telecom companies keep applying pressure to demand CHANGE FOR THE BETTER. Read for yourselves, its worth it, it is Very interesting and promising even now, although this is the start! http://www.cellphoneusersguide.com/ |
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| Source: Agnes Ingvarsdottir | |
| U.K. expert warns against Wi-Fi | ||
| Canada | Created: 27 Aug 2010 | |
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The debate surrounding potentially dangerous Wi-Fi networks in schools has been put to rest by the Ontario education ministry, which feels that if Health Canada endorses the technology as safe, end of story. But Barrie Trower, a British physicist who carried out research for the Royal Navy and military intelligence into the effects of microwave radiation, has come out of retirement to exhort bodies such as Health Canada to heed his life’s work. The Star caught up with Trower after his Tuesday lecture at the University of Toronto on the dangers of Wi-Fi technology and other common household sources of microwave radiation. In the face of its recent declaration that Wi-Fi networks are safe in schools, what would you tell Health Canada? “That’s wrong. If we know there are no levels safe for children and children are everywhere, how can they be safe? I have never met a single person that has read the ICNIRP (International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) guideline. It says, ‘Children, the elderly and some chronically ill people, might have a lower tolerance for one or more forms of microwave exposure.’ Your government uses a safety threshold of ‘not (greater than) 1,000 microwatts per cm2.’ In 2007 a group of scientists came up with a safety level, the BioInitiative Report. Their level is ‘not 0.1 microwatts per cm2.’ ” Other than those with “electrosensitivity” why are children so susceptible to illness from Wi-Fi? “Children are physiologically and neurologically immature. It takes years for the blood-brain barrier to form, leaving children more prone to cell-leakage from microwave radiation. And a person’s immune system, which fights off damage, takes 18 years to develop. In all of the schools I have visited around the world with Wi-Fi, every one has reported the same symptoms in students: fatigue, headaches, nausea, chest pain, vision problems. You have been invited to advise numerous countries about these dangers, but almost all have ignored the warnings. Why? “The governments have buried this for 40 years. They have known about these dangers since the research was coming in decades ago. Now, what do they say? They’ve painted themselves into a corner. I think they’re hoping the whole thing will go away. They’re afraid of lawsuits if they admit this is dangerous. And despite all the research that shows microwave radiation is dangerous, no one in the telecom industry has ever admitted it. No one.” |
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| Source: Toronto Star, San Grewal, 26 Aug 2010 | ||
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