Subject: Letter to Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (fwd)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 190357 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:38:31 -0700
From: Deb Carney
To: "Newton, Janet"
Cc: "Beavers, Roy" ,
Subject: Here is what I sent to Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell
The Honorable Ben Nighthorse Campbell
U.S. Senate
380 Russell Senate Office Bldg
Washington, D.C. 20510
Re: Lookout Mountain Broadcast Antenna Farms and the Telecommunications
Act
Dear Senator Campbell:
We both congratulate you on your recent victory. My husband, T.J
Carney, sends his greetings. I regret that my community work has not
given me the chance to meet you this year. Our community has a problem
with the Federal Government and broadcasters that requires attention.
Our community is frightened and concerned about the electromagnetic
energy that is radiated out from the broadcast antennas into our bodies
at the same altitude as the main power beams. Our residents sit in the
most complex and intense electromagnetic environment in a residential
area in the county. Our Tower Antenna Committee’s study of this issue
leads us to believe that we are facing serious health threats. A number
of residents on this community are scientists, including two electrical
engineers. Our review of the way that the FCC set the limits for
emissions convinced us that these limits did not protect our health,
they merely prevent us from being cooked by electromagnetic radiation.
This spring, we petitioned the FCC to restrict the amounts of
electromagnetic radiation that could be emitted into a community. We
further petitioned for a complete environmental impact study on our
community.
Recently the FCC staff denied both of these petitions and requests. We
are very upset that the FCC made no attempt to examine the scientific
information we submitted on dangers to human health from broadcast
antennas. We have studied the recommendations of the National Health
Agencies to the FCC about the existing standards and conclude that the
FCC ignored many of their warnings when the FCC formulated the existing
standard. We believe that the FCC has violated the requirements of the
National Environmental Assessment Policy(NEPA) as well as our common law
property and personal rights in continuing to license devices up here.
We find no record of the FCC ever conducting any environmental impact
assessment. Our basic constitutional rights are not being respected.
Enclosed is our application to the FCC Commissioners for review of their
staff’s actions. Recently, the FCC measurements confirmed that the FCC
limits were exceeded at all 4 locations measured at the Lookout Mountain
Antenna Farms. The FCC admits that the have neither the staff nor the
budget to monitor compliance with standards except in extraordinary
circumstances.
We believe that before the Federal Government licenses any more
electromagnetic radiation increases into this community, the government
must act responsibly to protect human health. Our Federal government
must objectively evaluate not only the most recent evidence of the
health risks from scientific literature but must also conduct a
comprehensive, detailed, and scientific analysis of what the radiation
up here has done to us. No Federal agency has ever conducted any
analysis of actual people exposed to broadcast radiation anywhere in
this county from what we can find.
The material is complex and we are willing to meet with any of your
staff or you to provide further information and explanation. Thank
you very much for looking into this situation.
Sincerely,
Deb Carney, 1998 President of C.A.R.E.
21789 Cabrini Blvd.
Golden, Co. 80401
303-526-9666
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html