Subject:  mobile/cell phone tower location policy (fwd)
Date:     Mon, 24 Nov 1997 063216 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@mail.llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:

One member of our group has been a "busy lady" in Australia....
Keep it up Kerrie.....

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...............................................


Subject: mobile/cell phone tower location policy

Hi Roy 

I've been having a sabbatical in sunny Cairns in a northern part of
Australia called Queensland. 

Before I left I attended the conference
(http://www.lgsa.org.au/97lgacon/97recdec.htm) listed below :

The Local Councils in the State of New South Wales in Australia recently
held their annual conference where policy was discussed, debated, determined
- one of the decisions related to mobile (cell) phone towers - I was
successful in having part (f) added to the original motion - the proposal
was carried unanimously

 Regards

Councillor Kerrie Christian
Wollongong City Council





                LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION of NSW
                 1997 ANNUAL CONFERENCE DECISIONS 

That all councils adopt planning controls that: 

     (a) limit the location of mobile telephone base stations (and other
commercial electromagnetic emitting facilities) to
     greater than 500 metres from residence, schools, child care centres,
hospitals and nursing homes; 

     (b) require mobile telephone base stations (and other electromagnetic
emitting facilities) to emissions of no more
     than .001 microwatts per square centimetre; 

     (c) require the owners of mobile telephone base stations to monitor
emissions in accordance with this level and
     report to the appropriate council at least yearly on levels achieved. 

     (d) request the federal government to reverse the policy of exclusive
digitalisation for Australia and thereby permit
     analogue to continue beyond 2000 

     (e) the federal government be requested to immediately establish the
Health Risk Review that had $4M allocated
     in the May 1997 budget. 

     (f) that the Local Government Association establish a Task Force to
facilitate discussion and negotiations between
     councils and mobile phone companies to work towards establishing
programs of progressive relocation on a
     priority basis of those mobile phone base stations which are already
located within 500 metres from residences,
     schools, childcare centres, hospitals and nursing homes; and that the
negotiations also seek to ensure that these
     facilities would be monitored annually for electromagnetic radiation
and the results be reported to the local
     council. 




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