Subject:  Re EMF exposure in mining environment???? (fwd)
Date:     Thu, 11 Dec 1997 111858 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:

Alasdair has an interesting response to earlier remarks by Jim Butler
and the guru........

Cheerio......

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................

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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 16:51:15 GMT
From: Alasdair Philips 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: EMF exposure in mining environment???? (fwd)

Roy
I agree that the EPA and UK NRPB seized on the non-political Radon as a
scapegoat.  The UK NRPB has spent an inordinate amount of money on Radon
and a tiny, tiny amount on EMF issues when, in fact, there is more evidence
of an association of cancer with EMF than there is with Radon (which was 
mainly based on the Uranium miners and has now been partly discredited).

However I am seeing increasing evidence that ionised aerosol particles,
including Radon daughters (decay products) probably play an important role
in cancers near high voltage overhead lines, and possibly where mains
voltage wires run near people's bed-heads.  Bristol University are using
Radon decay products as general aerosol activity markers/surrogates - this
is mis-understood by the NRPB who want to think that they are only pointing
the finger at Radon.  
In fact all the other aerosols are more likely to be the widespread problem.
This is a new area of research which I believe will be fruitful in the next
few years.  Watch this space.
By the way, UK COMARE (Committee on Man and Radiation in the Environment)
which advises the UK Government now 'admits' that 14% of childhood leukaemia
is due to Radon and Radon decay products.

Alasdair
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At 15:34 06/12/97 -0600, Roy L. Beavers wrote:
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>Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 08:32:57 -0800
>From: James Butler 
>To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
>Subject: Re: EMF exposure in mining environment????
>
>Roy, 
>On the issue of EMF and mining.
>
>The majority of the RADON studies which prompted widespread action by 
>the EPA were mining studies. I have always believed EMF was the culprit.
>
>Lung cancer and radon. Maybe these are instead EMF and lung cancer 
>studies, or again, a co-promoter effect. Connect to Canada/France 
>occupational study in '94 which showed 6.67x the lung cancer.
>
>  [Guru's note -- I believe that Jim may be referring to the "Theriault
>Study," here.  That involved workers in the electric industry who
>showed a high cancer as well as leukemia incidence....  The data was
>later seized by the utility which funded the study....]
>
>***The EPA took on the hazard of radon with an energetic zeal. Of course, 
>Mother Nature doesn't have much of an ad budget or lobbyists in 
>Washington.***  [italics by guru, see below]
>
>Jim.......
>
>  [Guru's comment -- Jim's remark about the eagerness of EPA to "take on"
>radon (which has no political/economic constituency) may be apropos at
>this time, with the "Green House Effect" world conference now taking place
>in Kyoto, Japan.
 
 
Alasdair Philips    (aphilips@gn.apc.org)


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