Subject: Re (Carney) Lookout Mountain, local editorial..... (fwd)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 084243 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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......Another item I want us to have in the archives......
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
rbeavers@llion.org.......
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
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..................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS..................
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 06:10:40 -0600
From: Deb Carney
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: (Carney) Lookout Mountain, local editorial.....
Thank you, Roy.
The big papers have not attended the first 2 supertower hearings. The
reporter for the Rocky Mt. News apologized to me and admitted that our story
was not getting the coverage it deserved. The broadcasters hired a public
relations woman who we had consulted earlier. Perhaps it is for the best that
there is scant coverage at the moment because the broadcasters were definitely
throwing a deceptive spin on all the stories.
[.....An alert, informed "public" can see through those "deceptive"
spins....guru....]
There is an Emmy Award winning filmmaker filming this fight for over the last
year. When his documentary comes out, I think the chances are excellent that
the whole story will be told.
Deb
"Roy L. Beavers" wrote:
> ......."The potential risks far outweigh the benefits......." Says
> the editor of the Mountain Times.....
>
> Also, Dr. Richard Hoffman, Colorado's Chief Medical Officer, ... "has
> retreated from his earlier contention that there was no evidence of a
> threat to nearby residents...."
>
> It seems to me that Dr. Hoffman's "retreat" has not been given nearly
> the press coverage his original "nothing to worry about" kind of statement
> got..... Has the Denver Post, for example, picked up on that??? Or has
> it made any of the TV networks out there???
>
> This editorial, Deb, will now forever be "on the record" in our
> archives.... You might want to tell the editor......
>
> Roy Beavers (EMFguru)......
> rbeavers@llion.org.......
> .....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
> EMF-L web-site can be found at:
> EMF-L archives can be found at:
> ..................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS..................
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 19:59:25 -0600
> From: Deb Carney
> To: "Beavers, Roy"
> Subject: Mt. Times Editorial
>
> Here is what the Mt. Times wrote about the proposed Supertower on
> Lookout Mt.
> Deb
>
> EDITORIAL
>
> New Broadcast Tower Poses
> Too Many Potential Threats
>
> No one can prove it will be safe.
>
> While absolute safety often is impossible to prove, there are enough
> unanswered questions about the new super tower proposed for Lookout
> Mountain that it would be prudent to find another site.
>
> The Colorado Department of Health has stated that it cannot find a
> definitive link between exposure to electromagnetic radiation and higher
> than expected cancer rates in the area of existing towers. But, the
> fact that most scientists cannot find a link does not mean there is
> none. Our history is replete with instances where no one could find a
> connection between certain types or exposures and human illness. Early
> studies failed to identify a threat from exposure to coal dust in
> mines. Now, we continue to compensate those who died of Black Lung
> disease. Early studies of asbestos exposures were inconclusive. Today,
> we not only know better, we are losing people every day who were exposed
> to excessive amounts. Similar stories can be related about other types
> of environmental hazards that were first thought to be innocuous and
> later found to be definite hazards, such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC),
> pesticides, microwave emissions, radon daughters, and on and on.
>
> There is one thing we know for sure about cancers---most have long
> latent periods. The effects of exposures don’t manifest themselves in
> humans until 20 or more years later, and some have even longer
> latencies. But, just as with the other environmental hazards mentioned,
> there are now enough studies showing statistical abnormalities of cancer
> in areas near towers that emit high frequency radiation, that the safest
> course would be to limit exposures.
>
> The Jefferson County Board of Education has taken that stand,
> expressing concern about exposures to children at Ralston Elementary.
> Dr. Richard Hoffman, Colorado’s chief medical officer and
> epidemiologist, has retreated from his early contention that there was
> no evidence of a threat to nearby residents.
>
> Regardless of whether future studies show a definite link between these
> types of exposures and cancer in humans, or whether they continue to be
> inconclusive, the safest course is not to increase exposures to people
> living in close proximity to these towers.
>
> This is just another instance where the potential risks far outweigh
> the benefits.
>
> …the Editor
> -30-
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