Subject: Cape Cod Times | Editorials, December 1, 1999 (Judges)..
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 110215 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
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=2E.......Sharon, people just don't "count" under our system any more.....
Corporations, big impersonal institutions like the National Association
of Manufacturers or the WTO, politicians, bureaucrats, even labor unions=20
-- they "count." But people do not......
Sharon, I suggest that in addition to the following, you should require
the "study" to de done by some INDEPENDENT authority...... (If you don't,
you are likely to get the kind of "studies" our Desert War veterans got
for so long ... by the military "studiers."......)
Cheerio.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
=2E....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness....=
=2E
NEW!!! Website
=2E..................People are more important than profits................=
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Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 10:33:00 -0000
From: judges
To: Roy Beavers
Subject: Cape Cod Times | Editorials, December 1, 1999=20
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Editorials December 1, 1999=20
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Francis Broadhurst=20
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Today's letters to
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The business of study
Monitoring Cape radiation levels should begin as
soon as possible; military should conduct full environmental study of
PAVE PAWS. (12/1/99)
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After more than a year of study, an expert panel
of scientists has completed its work on the possible health impacts of
PAVE PAWS, the microwave-radar system at the Massachusetts Military Reserva=
tion.
The conclusion?
More study is needed.
Sound familiar?
In 1992, researchers from Boston University found
a slight-to-moderate risk of cancer on the Cape associated with eight
environmental factors.
The researchers called for more study.
In 1995, the U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry found high numbers of chronic bronchitis, arthritis,
ulcers and other stomach diseases in residents living around the Upper
Cape base, a federal Superfund site.
Although the authors downplayed any potential
link between pollution from the base and community health problems, the
agency called for further study.
Upper Cape residents are legitimately frustrated
by the amount of time and taxpayer money spent on health studies that
seem only to point to more studies.
In this latest chapter, the experts assembled by
the state concluded that there was insufficient evidence to determine
whether radiation from PAVE PAWS is harmful to public health and
recommended that additional monitoring be done around the Cape to gauge
who is exposed to the radiation and at what levels.
The national experts also recommended that all
levels of electromagnetic fields - from cellular telephone towers and
radios as well as PAVE PAWS - be monitored. They urged that the public be
involved in determining the scope of the monitoring.
That all sounds fine, but that is almost exactly
what the public requested back in 1978 when the radar facility opened.
At that time, the community asked that:
n The Air Force continuously monitor radiation
levels at different locations across Cape Cod so the public would know the =
levels people were being exposed to over the years in various seasons and a=
tmospheric conditions;
n An epidemiological study begin from the moment
the power was turned on at PAVE PAWS;
n The Air Force notify the public if the power
was ever increased at PAVE PAWS.
PAVE PAWS has been emitting pulsed, microwave
radiation for more than 20 years now, and none of these things has been don=
e.
According to Sharon Judge of Sandwich, who helped
call for this latest review, radiation levels were measured just twice - in=
1978 and 1986 - in Upper Cape communities only. The results are skewed, sh=
e says, because they are time averaged.
"The more powerful peak pulses were not
adequately measured," she said. "The public was also not informed of a
power increase at PAVE PAWS in 1996."
Had the Air Force listened to the community back
in 1978, there would be no need to call for the monitoring today.
Nevertheless, it is time for the Air Force to
quickly find the funding to support the monitoring system with input from
the public.
At the same time, the Pentagon, which wants to
upgrade the PAVE PAWS computer system as part of a proposed missile
defense program, should conduct a full environmental impact study of the si=
te.
So far, the Pentagon has agreed only to a limited
study on the environmental impacts of the computer upgrade.
This is unacceptable.
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