Subject:  Re EMF exposure in mining environment???? (fwd)
Date:     Sat, 6 Dec 1997 153452 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@mail.llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Some guru comments below.....

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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.

   I have noted with dismay the "softened down and 'compromised' posture"
that the U.S. is taking in that conference vis-a-vis the adverse
environmental impact of power plant and other industrial emissions.  Even
as this is being written, "Mr. Environment, Vice President Gore" is about
to go on the podium and deliver a _sell-out_ (of the environmental cause)
on behalf of America's industrial "vested interests."

   Last evening, on PBS (the Jim Lehrer hour), I watched as a
representative of the electrical utility industry solemnly told of the
great 'economic travail' that would befall the _richest country (and
people) in the world_ if the stronger and more meaningful versions
of that treaty were to be adopted.  "Americans will pay more for their
gasoline and electricity," he trumpeted.  It will lead to a depression,
he implied.

    Point one, that is simply blatant "propaganda" scare talk......

    Second, it seems that the only criteria which the post-Cold War "free
market societies" are able to think about anymore... are the economic
(really the "profits") consequences.  The kind of world we are leaving for 
"future generations" is just not in their social "line of sight."  Always,
such spokesmen (as the utility man last evening) represent themselves as
speaking "for" the "American people."

    I challenge that claim!  There are many (aware?) Americans who have a
genuine and knowledgeable concern about a number of serious environmental
issues ... and who wonder if "we have our priorities set as they should
be!"  But by and large these Americans will not be heard-from in this
environmental debate or most any other.  They are not possessed of the
'means' to make their voices and concerns heard.  Today's single-issue,
profit driven "wealthocracy" has the means (billions of dollars, thousands
of lawyers, lobbyists, "P.R." spokesmen, and "bought" politicians of BOTH
parties).

    There was a time when "some" of those "environmentally concerned
Americans" thought they had a champion in the person of a young, handsome
Senator from Tennessee.....  Now he's the representative of American
industry that is over there in Kyoto making that "sell-out" speech.....
He has learned well the game of political "opportunism" ...
from the master, Slick Willy........ ]

Cheerio......

Guru


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