Subject: Re FPL Company's Newsletter (fwd)
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 204227 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:
Question (below) for MICROWAVE NEWS.........
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: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:56:44 -0500
From: "John D. Evans"
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: FPL Company's Newsletter (fwd)
At 01:40 PM 20/02/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi everybody:
>
>John Evans recently sent me the following. [The FPL Company's
Newsletter], etc., etc.
Dear Roy,
Thanks for all the comments regarding the FPL propaganda piece. Here is
something that also sounds very typical, and it involves the FPL Company.
I just happened to re-read one of the very few copies I have of MICROWAVE
NEWS, the September/October issue of 1996. I would like to subscribe, but
the costs are just too high, especially in Canadian dollars. Anyway, here
is a fascinating article under the title of EMF NEWS: Power Line Talk, p.2:
***************Quotation Below*******************
Florida Power & Light (FPL) wants Leonard Glazer to pay for the costs of
defending itself against Glazer's EMF-cancer lawsuit. The utility won a
dismissal in May, a decision which is now under appeal (see MWN, M/J96).
Taking advantage of Florida's "loser pays" statute, FPL secured the order
for reimbursement as part of the ruling dismissing the case, explained an
attorney for Glazer, >Howard Talenfeld< of Colodny, Fass & Talenfeld in Ft.
Lauderdale. A headline in the September 14 Miami Herald read, "FPL SUES
DYING MAN FOR LEGAL FEES," but the action was just "standard procedure,"
according to FPL spokesperson Kathy Scott. "If we didn't try to recover
those costs, they would have to be paid by our customers," she emphasized.
"As we have always said," Scott added, "we are very sympathetic to Mr.
Glazer over his illness. It's very unfortunate that he has leukemia. But
it's always been our position that this was not caused by FPL equipment."
The utility is demanding payment of $268,000--an amount that FPL's court
papers describe as "only a fraction" of its total expenses, since not all
costs are recoverable under the law. For example, court papers indicate
that FPL spent $402,000 on its expert witnesses, but is only asking to be
reimbursed for $174,000 of that amount. FPL's expert witness fees
include: $29,000 for Dr. Philip Cole of the School of Public Health of the
University of Alabama, Birmingham (at $400/hr); $127,000 for Fred Dietrich
of Electric Research and Management in Pittsburgh (at $200/hr); $65,000
for Dr. Paul Leaverton of the College of Public Health of the University
of South Florida in Tampa (at $200/hr); $33,000 for Dr. John Moulder of
the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee (at $130/hr); and $116,000
for Michael Silva of Enertech Consultants in Campbell, CA (at $185/hr).
Asked if FPL would drop its payment demand if Glazer agrees to drop his
appeal, FPL's Scott declined to comment. "That's something they'd
probably want my client to think about," said Talenfeld, "but I don't
think it would matter. Leonard believes in what he's doing. Glazer's
wife, Elsa, died of leukemia in 1988. The order to pay costs is on hold
until Glazer's appeal is resolved. Oral arguments in the case are
scheduled for November 4 in the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami.
****************End Of Quote*****************
I wonder whatever happened. Perhaps a later edition of MW News would give
us the answer. It is amazing what "tame" scientists will do and say.
Cheers,
John
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* John D. Evans
* E-mail: jdevans@sympatico.ca
* 8 Monroe Court
* Wellington, ON K0K 3L0
* CANADA
* Phone: 613-399-5089
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* Human beings are the only creatures who
* are able to behave irrationally in the name
* of reason.........................(Ashley Montagu).
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