Subject: Dr. Sheila Basrur/Toronto (Maitman)..
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 180909 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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......O.K., so I misspelled "Sheela".... Still, SHE is a great story....
There is something about a one-word answer -- "YES" -- that is hard to
argue with..... We need more like her!!! Thanks, Mark......
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
NEW!!! Website
...................People are more important than profits.................
DO YOU KNOW OF OTHERS WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST???
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 18:20:21 -0500
From: Breakthrough Associates
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: Dr. Sheila Basrur/Toronto
Hi Roy,
Sorry for being so late in replying: here's the update.
On December 6, the Board of Health approved the Prudent Avoidance Policy
recommended by Sheela (sic) Basrur. That policy would impose an output
limit on cellular base stations of one hundredth of our Safety Code 6
(equivalent to FCC limit). The decisive moment in that debate came when
one of the city councillors on the board said to Dr. Basrur "With all the
public health concerns this city has to deal with, is this really something
we need to be concerned about?" She answered with one word, "Yes."
The next step was the Telecommunications Steering Committee on Thursday Dec
9. One motion was passed, which recommends the city terminate its contracts
with two cellular suppliers at a municipal water tank. Many more motions
were deffered, including the motion to adopt the Prudent Avoidance Policy
and incorporate it into a protocol for all sitings. The Planning and
Health departments are working out what that protocol would entail, with
input from us, as well as the industry and government. In late January or
early February, there will be a scientific "round table" discussion, and we
are now trying to ensure that we have one or two of the prominent
researchers present.
There certainly is a news story here! If and when the city council approves
the policy, it will be openly stating that the federal guideline is a joke.
Sparks should fly.
And, thanks to Eva, Sheela and her staff are now in possesion of the
Salzburg model and the Vienna Declaration.
Merry Christmas,
Mark
>Hi folks:
>
>Did this one get any follow up?..... I'm very interested in the
>Sheila Basrur story.... So is one of my press contacts....
>
>Thanks,
>
>Guru......
>
>
>
>On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Hans Karow wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:10:50 -0800
>> From: Hans Karow
>> To: "'Wolfgang W.Scherer'" ,
>> 'Eva Marsalek' ,
>> "'j pfergus@ampsc.com'" ,
>> "'rbeavers@llion.org'"
>> Cc: 'Breakthrough Associates'
>> Subject: Dr. Sheila Basrur/Toronto
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I received
>> - The Toronto Staff Report "Health Effects of Wireless Telephone
>> Transmission Towers" (Dr. Sheela V. Basrur) and
>> - City of Toronto Community and Neighborhood Services/Toronto public
>> Health/Health Promotion and Environmental Protection Office's "Health
>> Concerns of Radio Frequency Fields Near Base Telephone Transmission Towers"
>> (Dr. Sheela V. Basrur, Medical Officer of Health, November 1999) , see
>> attached below
>>
>> Both Documents do not refer to/mention anything about the Declaration of
>> Vienna and the Salzburg Model.
>>
>> I suggest that hopefully Eva and/or Wolfgang could submit the Vienna
>> Declaration and the Salzburg Model report to
>>
>> Mark Maitman & Dale Sutton
>> Breakthrough Associates
>> brkthru@istar.ca
>>
>> who are both actively involved in the Toronto cell-tower debate.
>>
>> Let's give Dr. Basrur lots of backup and support, before THEY are going
>> after her.
>> Mark/Dale, what else can we do?
>>
>> Hans.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roy L. Beavers [SMTP:rbeavers@llion.org]
>> Sent: December 8, 1999 8:25 AM
>> To: emfguru
>> Subject: Canadian health doctor, Sheila Basrur, wants lower RF
>>exposure ,
>> standards, Article in Toronto Sun (Ferguson)..
>>
>>
>> ........Mark that name and remember it: Dr. Sheila Basrur....
>> She will now be villified and personally attacked (publicly of
>> course) ... beyond her "wildest" anticipation..... And in so
>> many "things" that have nothing to do with her professional life....
>>
>> The "industry" cannot allow such a courageous professional pronouncement
>> to survive..... They WILL go after her!!!..... May God Be with You!!
>> Sheila.... (If he is "out there?!?).....
>>
>> Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
>> roy@emfguru.com
>>
>> .....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
>> NEW!!! Website
>> ...................People are more important than profits.................
>>
>> DO YOU KNOW OF OTHERS WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST???
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 07:50:03 -0800
>> From: Jim Ferguson
>> To: "Roy L. Beavers"
>> Subject: Article in Toronto Sun
>>
>> Roy - the following was in the Toronto Sun today
>>
>> http://www.canoe.com/TorontoNews/ts.ts-12-07-0037.html
>>
>> Doc has bad vibes about radio
>>
>> By SCOT MAGNISH, CITY HALL BUREAU
>> Health officials want to beef up regulations governing potentially
>> harmful
>> radio frequencies in the air over Toronto, politicians heard yesterday.
>>
>> Health Canada maintains current standards for exposure to radio frequencies
>> are adequate, but Dr. Sheela Basrur urged the board of health to increase
>> that safety margin a hundred-fold.
>>
>> "It is recommended as an added margin of safety that exposures to the
>> public
>> be kept at least 100 times below (federal) exposure limits," Basrur said.
>>
>> Basrur said radio frequencies have been demonstrated to have adverse
>> affects
>> on the blood brain barrier and some evidence suggests a link to leukemia
>> and
>> other cancers.
>>
>> Roger Poirier of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association said
>> Basrur's standards were "impossible to meet."
>>
>> Mark Maitma of Citizens for a Healthy Future said they're a "good start ...
>> a fair compromise."
>>
>> Jim Ferguson
>> Victoria, B.C.
>>
>> "Be careful with puns, remember to always practice safe lex and use a
>> conundrum."
>>
>>
>
>Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
>roy@emfguru.com
>
>.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
> NEW!!! Website
>...................People are more important than profits.................
>
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Mark Maitman & Dale Sutton
Citizens for a Healthy Future
brkthru@istar.ca
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