Subject: Repeat -- Portland Mayor "rebels" against Fed Gov (Murray).]
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 092232 -0600
From: Roy Beavers
To: guru@emfguru.com
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........From guru......
I should have pointed out that (in the news report below) the
industry man is raising the **usual specious issue.** No "proof"
of health risk -- he says......
"Proof" is not the issue. That's the same old "dodge" that was
taken by the tobacco industry for decades.....
The issue is: where is the scientific evidence "pointing us?"
If Mr.Lamoureux would refer to the pages of
he would find MUCH evidence of research that indicts the health
"safety" of the cell phone radiation..... As well as other major
sources of EMF in our Blue World environment today.....guru.....
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Subject: Portland Mayor "rebels" against Fed Gov (Murray).
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:01:25 -0600
From: Roy Beavers
Reply-To: roy@emfguru.com
Organization: EMF-L List
To: guru@emfguru.com
.........From EMF-L........
Somebody run that gal for president!!! She errs in her belief that
the 1996 Telecom Act would stand up under challenge, however, viz.
it's so-called "prohibition" against the right of local communities
(states) to determine for themselves what is safe (healthful) for
their community.....!!! The Supreme Court has yet to rule on that
-- and the lower Federal Courts have divided..... That fight needs
to be pressed on!!!!!!!!!! .......
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
It is better to light a single candle
than to curse the darkness..
WEBSITE: http://emfguru.com
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Subject: Article 1/28/2001-001 Oregon. Legislator cites Health Issues
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:09:28 -0500
From: "Mark Murray"
To:
Legislator Ms. Vera Katz cites health in stance against cell phone towers
The Portland mayor and cancer survivor abstains from a vote on a structure
in a neighborhood, saying risks are not known
Friday, January 26, 2001
By Courtenay Thompson of The Oregonian staff
When Vera Katz was in the Legislature, she remembers the federal
government downplaying the potential health risks of the Vietnam
War-era defoliant, Agent Orange, now an acknowledged carcinogen.
Vera & the Voters Discuss this and other issues with Portland mayor
Vera Katz in her weekly chat show, at 12:30 p.m. every Tuesday
So Thursday, the Portland mayor and cancer survivor took a dramatic
public stand against what she calls the unknown health risks of cell
phone towers.
In a land use appeals hearing on a proposed 80-foot cell phone tower
in the Montavilla neighborhood of Southeast Portland, Katz said she
could not vote because she had a bias.
"I feel very strongly that the federal government has closed its eyes
to the potential health risks," Katz said. She later called on the
federal government to conduct more studies and call the public's
attention to the potential health risks of emissions from cell phones
and towers.
"As a survivor of cancer, a lot of the material I have read clearly
indicates there is a health issue at stake," Katz said. "The federal
government doesn't have much research on it, no incentive to do
research on it, because the whole world is so closely tied to this
economy and this lifestyle."
While she said she couldn't point to a specific study, she said the
public needs to raise the issue. And she said she couldn't vote her
conscience, because to do so would violate her responsibility as an
elected official to uphold local and federal laws concerning the
siting of cell towers.
Marc Lamoureux, development manager for the Northwest region for
VoiceStream Wireless, which made the application, said he, too,
is concerned about any potential health effects from cell phones.
But he said scientific data has shown no ill effects from the
low-level of emissions from cell phones and cell phone towers.
"There is no scientific data that proves the emissions from cell
phones are damaging to health," he said. As for the mayor's comments,
Lamoureux said, "Everybody is entitled to their opinion."
Katz said she had expressed her concerns at an earlier cell phone
tower hearing, but decided she could no longer participate in them
given her growing concerns.
"I cannot in good conscience continue to support them," Katz told
the council.
Other city commissioners said they respected the mayor's decision.
After hearing testimony from Montavilla area residents worried about
health and visual effects of the tower, the three remaining city
commissioners -- Jim Francesconi, Dan Saltzman, Erik Sten -- denied
the neighbors' appeal because the company met local land use
requirements. The Federal Communications Commission regulates cell
phone use, and local jurisdictions are constrained from considering
any health-related concerns, Katz and other city officials said.
Last March, Katz, 67, learned she had breast cancer. She underwent
radiation treatment, and her doctors now say she's cancer-free.
"So," Katz said, "I have rebelled today."
You can reach Courtenay Thompson at 503-294-5988 or by e-mail at
courtenaythompson@news.oregonian.com
Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org
Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com