by DAVID LINDSAY

The European Parliament has raised new alarms over mobile phone base stations, calling for higher electromagnetic frequency limits, more prudent positioning of the base stations and for operators to share base station resources so as to reduce their numbers.

The emergence of large numbers of mobile phone base stations in Malta some years back had led to public outcry and health concerns, fears that appear to have dissipated to a certain extent with familiarity.

But not so at the European Parliament, where MEPs this month voted in an overwhelming majority in favour of a resolution calling for a shake-up in the regulations governing not only base stations but also other sources of electromagnetic frequencies such as high voltage power lines – with a specific focus on children’s and young people’s exposure to electromagnetic fields.

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