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Electromagnetic radiation danger challenged
County Council sessions on subject to continue.

By JAMES WENSITS
Tribune Political Writer

SOUTH BEND -- Agreement was in short supply Wednesday as members of an informal group concerned about electromagnetic radiation and low frequency noise met resistance to their conclusions that the phenomena represent a health hazard.

The meeting, conducted by County Council President Rafael Morton and Council Member Mark Catanzarite, was the third in a series that now appears likely to continue for weeks, if not longer.

Morton, D-District D, said he thought it unlikely that the group can come to a conclusion in two or three more meetings and said he planned to continue the sessions without setting a time limit.

"It's very early in the process as far as I'm concerned," Morton said.

The last session was attended by Dr. Roland Chamblee, county health officer, who said in a later interview that he doesn't know of a connection between electromagnetic radiation, low-frequency noise and various diseases, but does know it would cost millions of dollars and take years of research to find out.

Wednesday's session featured comments by Marjorie Lundquist, a bioelectromagnetic hygienist from Milwaukee who said she has a doctorate in physics.

Lundquist said that in 1980, she became interested in the health hazards associated with video display terminals and then started thinking about similar problems associated with electrical power lines.

She recommended installing filtering equipment on ground wires leading from electrical installations to the Earth, then monitoring the effect on those who have disease symptoms that may be connected to the high frequency impulses.

John Matwyshyn, a Mishawakan who said he programs and designs digital circuitry, said federal studies during the 1990s concluded that the power lines were nothing to be concerned about.

That comment led Jeff Symmes, a Battleground, Ind., resident who is the leader of the informal group, to contend that the studies referred to by Matwyshyn were paid for by the electrical industry.

At an earlier meeting, Symmes had called for a moratorium on the construction of cell phone towers. The group believes the towers are a source of unhealthy radiation.

The next meeting will be May 4 in the County Council conference room on the fourth floor of the County-City Building. Another meeting is scheduled for May 18.

Staff writer James Wensits:
jwensits@sbtinfo.com
(574) 235-6353


Informant: Sylvie

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165 cancer cases were found in one neighbourhood in Osafia.

The Health Ministry started researching the connection between the
cancer cases and the antennas that are erected in the area, and
considers extending the research to Yavne, Modeen, Reut and Tamra.

By Alex Doron

Maariv 20.1.2004

After the villages Zoran and Porat which became famous for their cancer cases multitude that were linked to the radiation from radio antennas, it's time for the Druze village Osafia to fight the cellular companies.

To the meeting of the parliament committee came the representatives of Osafia's "The Women Committee for Fighting the Antennas", who told that in the last 4 years 165 people died of cancer, all of them lived in one neighbourhood where there are cellular antennas. "We decided to unite and stop the monster" said the committe member Mira Abu Zalef. "The cellular companies representatives come as thieves in the night to erect the antennas". Abu Zalef presented herself as a mother of three children who had a brain damage, and added: "I don't want others to go through what I went through. Every day a new cancer case if found". Another committe member, Zahia Naser, was furious: "The Nature and Gardens Authority forbade erecting antennas in the National Park because of concerns for the animals' lives. And what about us? There is no concern about our lives?"

Dr. Micha Bar Hana, manager of the national cancer registry of the Health Ministry reported that he had started a research on Osafia in order to find out the connection between the exposure to electromagnetic radiation and the cancer rate in Osafia, "but we have difficulties in gathering data". Parliament members suggested that the research will be extended also to Yavne, Modeen, Reut and Tamra, which complained about many cancer cases near antennas.

The cellular companies representative, Asaf Aisen, said that the companies check the base stations and give all the data to the Environment's Quality Ministry. He emphasized that the radiation levels "are very low".

Parliament member Ofir Pines informed that he would initiate a law of 3 years in prison for manager of any cellular company that will erect antennas in a pirate way.


Informant: Iris Atzmon

http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/omega200104.htm


Osafia’s activity becomes stronger
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/644608/

Osafia residents will file a suit against the cellular companies
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/382774/

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http://omega.twoday.net/stories/644638/

Cancer Clusters in Vicinity to Cell-Phone Transmitter Stations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580224/

“The antennas cause reduction in sexual desire”

Hadid Rashi,

Yediot Haifa 22.4.05

Last week anonymous lighted a fire in a house in Osafia in which a cellular antenna was erected. According to the suspicion, the people who burned also managed to damage the equipment that was in the place. It is an abandoned house whose owner died two years ago and his widow moved to live with her family. The police started investigating but arrested none until now.

Last week a brochure was distributed with the last warning before starting a religious and social boycott on residents who agree to place antennas in their house. In the brochure, 14 Druz Imams warn together with the heads of the Christian community and the Muslim leaders, that every person who will not respond in rejection to erect an antenna in his house, exopses himself to the anger of God and ostracism by the religion leaders. A religious person who will agree to put antenna in his house will be excluded from prayer places, until he removes the antenna. If he is a secular – he is completely ostracized and the public will be asked not to participate in any party that he will do or to participate in his grief in case a disaster will happen to him. None of the people in the village will buy or sell him things.

The mayor and vice mayor signed on the document, whose writers detailed the damage from cellular radiation- “scientific pubilcations link the radiation with cancer, reduction in sexual desire, damage that affects the next generations, learning difficulties, memory damage”, warns prof’ Padel Mansur from volcanic institute, “the main affected are children and women”.

Last Thursday, Dr. Micha Bar Hana, manager of cancer registry was invited to the municipality and claimed that there is no proven connection between the cellular radiation and cancer, but admitted that there is an increase of cancer rate in Dalia and Osafia, 6% more than the national average. The municipality people asked him to start doing a serious survey about the cancer rate in the two village, and Bar Hana prominsed that his institute will start the survey this year.

“62 antennas were in the village” said the mayor Dr. Akram Hason, “I have decided to remove them, even if there is no proven connection to cancer, in order to calm the people down, today there are 19 antennas left and we don’t know their place and they will be removed” he promised.

And non- formal data is that 2 weeks ago 4 people died from cancer in Osafia,

And - there is no cellular reception in the village - the companies turned the antennas off as a revenge because the municipality told them to move all the antennas to a hill near the village and the companies didn’t like this idea.

Iris Atzmon



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http://omega.twoday.net/stories/644638/

The Cellular Antennas are Killing Us
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/644633/

Cancer Clusters in Vicinity to Cell-Phone Transmitter Stations
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/580224/

http://tinyurl.com/9ee2p


Informant: Sylvie

Last posted: Wednesday 20 April 2005 16:40

A MOBILE phone company has unveiled new proposals to extend a controversial phone mast.

Communication giant O2 has submitted plans to increase the height of a pole in an alleyway next to Foundry Street, Little Lever, from 12.5 metres to 15 metres high.

The telecommunications firm tried to extend the mast last year, but Bolton Council rejected the application for being out of character with the surrounding area.

Now O2 has produced an amended design which shows a slimmer phone pole, broadening out at the top of the mast to include extra antennae.

The mast is situated in the village centre, near the shopping parade on Market Street.

It part of the company's Third Generation Network project, improving the network's coverage and allowing users to deal with large amounts of data.

Councillors in Little Lever say the mast would look like a "porcupine".

Cllr Mary Woodward, ward member for Little Lever, said: "A 15m phone pole in the middle of the precinct would be too high and it would be detrimental to the area, which is built-up.

"The mast would be out of character and become a total eyesore.

"The application for an extension was unanimously refused last time, and it should be again."

Ann McCracken, from O2, said: "We hope this new application will reduce any fears residents have about the mast's appearance.

"We wrote to local councillors in March to inform them about this further application."

Last year, O2 applied to Bolton Council to share an existing mast with rivals Vodafone at Little Lever Cricket Club, but this was rejected by planning bosses.

O2 also held talks with officials from a nearby church to try to find an alternative site.

The mast has a long history, with a successful campaign launched by villagers in the summer of 2003 to stop the monopole being erected.

But four months later, a government inspector agreed the phone mast should be built despite residents' concerns.

Residents had objected due to fears that the mast would be "an intrusive feature" and could attract vandalism.

http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/lancashire/bolton/news/NEWS3.html


Informant: Sylvie