Subject: EMF Health and Safety Digest (Karow)..
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 064706 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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Hi everybody:
Let's take a good look at this interesting message from Hans Karow.
His utilities commission is telling him that elsewhere in the public,
the EMF issue is becoming "less important" to the public.....!??!
Don't they wish......!! In truth, there are some volcanos out there.....
I expect them to "go off" soon..... At least one of them.....
But, the interesting statement by the commission is that they cite as
their source, the (EMF) Health & Safety Digest. What is that, Hans asks?
I hope we will get some (more recent) feedback in answer to that question.
My information is a couple of years old -- that's when I stopped
subscribing to the blatantly pro-industry publication.....
At that time, it was (mostly) written by a very competent science
journalist named Janet Lathrop. But my reading was that she was not free
to write an objective scientific publication. She was very much "under
the thumb" of the owner of the publication, Robert S. Banks..... He was
the one who appeared to have the strong connection with the electric power
industry. "The EMF Information Project" was the organization under
which he actually raised his funding, and the public has never been told
where that came from, who funded it, or anything else about that
institution. It did not appear to me that the publication, itself, could
have been supported by subscription alone....... (In other words, the
'EMF Information Project' just "looked" and "sounded" like one of those
tobacco "P.R." fronts which we now know had propagandized about
the safety of tobacco for decades to an unsuspecting public.....)
If the truth were known, I think we would find that virtually the only
"buyer" of this publication is/was the electrical utility industry. H&S
Digest always relied heavily on "industry" sources for its stories and it
charged a subscription price which tended to exclude anyone who didn't
have the "deep pockets" of a large corporate entity.... (Hans, it is
probably sent to your commission at no cost....???)
Someone tell me -- is Janet still with them? I thought she was
uncomfortable enough that she might not stay.....
Hans, when they report that the public is losing interest in the EMF
issue -- they are writing about THEIR public, not us, we don't count in
their eyes......
Cheerio.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
NEW!!! Website... http://emfguru.com
...................People are more important than profits.................
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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:52:09 -0800
From: Hans Karow
To: "'rbeavers@llion.org'"
Subject: EMF Health and Safety Digest
Roy and all,
I am presently involved in my third power line struggle and trying to
present the EMF issue.
In a recent correspondence with our Utilities Commission I have been
referred by the Commission to the "EMF Health and Safety Digest" I have
not been aware of before. Anyone knows the web site address?
I questioned the source of the Commission's observation regarding the state
of EMF issues, since one of their staff mentioned in a letter :"?the most
recent findings in the field of EMF publications were indicating that there
is a general indication by the public and EMF managers that the issue of
EMF is becoming a less important public issue?" . I am trying to rebut this
statement and the Commission's general ignoring position with regards of
the EMF issue within the 230 kV transmission line application. All what I
am trying to do in the application process is, that the EMF issue is fairly
represented to the general and affected public, not only "a la Moulder",
but also from the independent concerned and qualified EMF-specialists. A
controversial issue is like a coin, it has two sites!
The Commission especially refers to Volume 17, No. 10, November/December
1999 issue of the EMF Health and Safety Digest. I like to have a copy of
this, if possible via internet.
I hope anyone of the list can give me some details about who is behind the
"EMF Health and Safety Digest" and whether there is any bias in that
magazine.
Thanks, Hans.
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