Subject: The citizens are mobilizing (Kelley).
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 045131 -0600
From: Roy Beavers
To: guru
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........From EMF-L.......
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Citizen action
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 07:40:00 -0800
From: Libby Kelley
To: reynstpf@connix.com
CC: roy@emfguru.com
Reyn and Roy,
I just returned from an excellent conference on cellular towers and public
health in northeastern Connecticut. The conference was sponsored by the
Berkshire-Litchfield Environmental Council and numerous other environmental
groups. There was a whole day's worth of experts who brought us all up to
speed on the science, engineering. law and public policy surrounding this
issue. There were over 200 attendees, primarily planning and zoning
people, with a healthy sprinkling of Telecom industry folk who were there
to learn along with the rest of us, we must assume. I am sure we all will
be hearing more about what transpired at this day long conference from
others on this list who attended.
Coincidentally, last Friday, December 1, the Connecticut voted to transfer
tower siting authority to the Connecticut State Siting Council. This move
was attempted in other states, notably, Vermont and Massachusetts, but
failed. Medical scientist journalist and EMF researcher, B. Blake Leavitt,
who moderated the conference. was concerned about the overall impact of
this decision on local control. Apparently, the telecommunications
industry pushed hard. There are many areas of Connecticut which
"cell-tower free" and to the Telecom carriers, that means these communities
are "underserved" and do not provide adequate signal to cellular users.
Fewer towers can mean more powerful co-location facilities and the photo
"Reyn" sent may be the result of that planning process.
So, in addition to "Reyn's" concerns about this cellular tower, I would be
concerned about where to purchase a home in Connecticut, since the local
officials are now even less able to represent their constituents on where
to site towers.
Dr.. Bill Curry, a semi-retired consulting physicist and member of the
EMF-list, presented a field test he conducted on a neighborhood in
Duanesburg, New York where for at least three years, people have been
reporting health problems. One of the families who live there, the
Sankovitches, attended the conference and reported on the incidence of
disease and economic losses that they and their neighbors have
experienced. According to Dr. Curry, this community of homes is receiving
RF exposures from multiple sources and these combined sources are creating
exposure conditions which exceed the FCC guidelines. Their situation is
only one that we know about. There are many more stories like this in our
country.
For information about what citizens can do to affect public policy, protect
their homes and communities, check out the EMR Network website.
http://www.emrnetwork.org.
Best regards,
Libby
At 05:19 PM 12/02/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>.........From EMF-L.......
>
>Wow!!! I hope everybody can see this tower...... George -- find another
>home for your five year old.....
>
>There are more uncertainties than answers to the question you ask......
>But I know that I would not locate my family within a mile of that
>tower.....
>
>It's Russian Roulette for your child and may not be much different for
>yourself..... Cannot say for sure without more information about the
>energy levels and "shape" of the lobes from the many transmitters located
>there..... At one mile, you could be right in the main lobe of a/the
>main beam..... And ... that looks like the kind of a tower that will
>continue to have more antennas added in the future.....
>
>We just don't know the answers...... And Americans today have the
>misfortune to be living under a government that has decided to "roll
>the dice" with its people.......guru.......
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Your opinion, please.
>Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 20:13:50 -0500
>From: reynstpf@connix.com
>Reply-To: reynstpf@connix.com
>To: roy@emfguru.com
>References: <3A28517E.1DF947B9@emfguru.com>
>
>Dear Roy,
>
>We are considering the purchase of a property one mile from this antenna.
>
>Will there likely be potentially harmful microwattage at this distance?
>It's in a
>rural, hilly location, with a large coverage area, so it probably has the
>power
>cranked up.
>
>I can see the high-gains and the apertures, but what is the function,
>power and
>frequency of all those masts?
>
>Excuse my ignorance on the subject, but I am reluctantly being forced into
>learning
>about this spreading threat. Can brain and cellular chemistry and signals
>be affected
>at a mile?
>
>We have a five year old child.
>
>Please forward this to anyone else with an experienced opinion on the matter.
>
>Thanks and regards,
>
>-George
>Connecticut, USA
Libby Kelley
Executive Director
Council on Wireless Technology Impacts
936 B Seventh Street, #206
Novato, California 94945
Voice: 415 892-1863
Fax: 415 892-3108
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