[June 24, 2006]

(Gulf News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Dubai: A father fears his family's health is being jeopardised by a cell phone transmitter mast attached to his flat's balcony.

Eappen Thiruvattal, 50, thinks the tiredness, headaches and joint pains suffered by him, his wife and his daughter could be caused by the mast.

Telecommunications company Etisalat insists that its cell phone towers exceed international recommendations and are not a threat to people.

Thiruvattal, an Indian national works as a manager for a video company, grew concerned after learning of the possible health dangers of cell phone masts.

"You read in many places that these can cause brain tumours and other sinister things and now we have one of these masts near us 24 hours a day. It produces microwaves which could be unhealthy."

"My daughter has constant headaches and complains of pains in her knees. My wife is being treated for her shoulder. I suffer fatigue. It's affecting our health," he said.

Thiruvattal has lived in a first floor apartment along Oud Mehta Road with his wife Ruby, 49, and daughter Eva, 15, for nine years.

He said the mast was fixed between his balcony and that of his neighbour more than a year ago.

"I am sure these things are normally fixed on towers so they are at a distance from people. In India, all telephone companies have them on towers," he said.

Cell phone masts have caused controversy across the world, with residents often campaigning for their removal amid health fears.

Telecommunications companies have insisted that there is no scientific evidence that they cause damage to health.

Those defending the masts say the amount of radiation reaching people from a base station is 10,000 times weaker than that produced by an actual cell phone handset.

Ahmad Bin Ali, Etisalat's Corporate Communications Manager, said the GSM base stations or cell phone towers, that the company set up adheres to international conditions and specifications.

He said Etisalat uses guidelines from the Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) in the United States that ensures protection from exposure to radiation.

"Etisalat uses secure limits of maximum exposure when designing and operating phone towers and the locations are selected in line with international safety standards,"he added.

Omega read "Base Stations, operating within strict national and international Guidelines, do not present a Health Risk?" under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/771911/

Copyright: Technology Marketing Corp. 1997-2006

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-cell-phone-mast-affecting-my-familys-health-/2006/06/24/1694430.htm

HPA make me really cross! Have you asked them what they mean by 'properly controlled conditions'? They cannot replicate the conditions found by masts because every house, every room, positioning of every pillow, every person and all terrains are different.

It is my strong feeling that it is only possible to find the true effects by carrying out scientific tests in the areas where the effects are found as done by Dr. Neil Cherry! It is impossible to find exactly the same symptoms anywhere because of the above differences.

I am in the middle of writing my replies to Dr. Michael Clarke and John W. Stather Deputy Director (Two letters, neither from the person to whom I wrote - Dr Roger Cox). I am asking lots of questions, some of them repeated from my first letter and which were not answered e.g.

1) Why did Faraday think it necessary to invent a cage to protect workers from EMR if the emissions do not damage human health?

2). Why is sitting in a Faraday cage inher wheel chair in her lounge the only way a person with a huge mast and multi antennae near her home can experience any relief from her symptoms while she remains at home? Why did she recover the use of her legs after six weeks on holiday abroad, only to become crippled again after three weeks back home? Why are you not investigating this?

I'm asking many such and will reiterate them until I get satisfactory answers.

Kindest regards to all of you who are suffering (and to those who are helping you)

Gill

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Gill

Take a look at the news page on http://www.tetrawatch.net for some stories about what operators say. We also have a local builders company that tells workers to operate in pairs when working near transmitters of any kind. Health & Safety: one stands back to observe the other's behaviour / capability when using dangerous equipment.

Two typical cases here: a couple who spend 6 months in the UK, 6 months in Madagascar. The wife has severe fibromyalgia, but only in the UK, and as soon as they return.

Second: our old friend John O'Brien had an injured knee that would not heal, and noticed it was better when away from TETRA. Really bad before they left to live in France, he had tried everything and thought it was a surgery case. Two weeks in France in a place where there is zero mobile coverage, and he's running on it like new!

I will keep you in touch with anything that emerges from follow up to "a survey in a town in Sussex", where it is suspected early widespread EHS is being followed by strokes and cancers.

Andy


http://www.tetrawatch.net/papers/mast_survey.pdf

‘A town in Sussex’ was surveyed in 2004, and revealed 58 per cent of people living within 250m of a TETRA mast reported adverse health impacts starting from the time of operation. We are having to return, because an unusual number of cases of strokes and cancers reported. If it were not for two reasons, this might be overlooked: first, there are many other places where ‘clusters’ are appearing around transmitters, and second, there may well be a direct connection between the electro-sensitivity exhibited early on and the chronic disease. Again, we are working on the science research behind this.

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You always need to measure.

We were thinking of living in a very remote farmhouse in the hills north of Bolton Abbey in the Yorkshire Dales - no masts in sight at all, yet a phenomenally strong TETRA signal all over the hills and moorland.

I have also been in other, apparently remote, walker areas and found surprisingly high levels of both mobile phone signals and, inceasingly, TETRA signals. Just because you can't see an obvious masts does not mean that you are not being irradiated.

Alasdair

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As a true annecdotal add-on to this story... Last year, an official remote nuclear radiation monitoring station on Snowdon was connecting (unintentionally) to an Irish basestation as that had the best signal and then phone back to England with its data each day rather than though a Welsh basestation. They discovered this because of the high call charges on their phone bill!

Alasdair


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Essex University Experiments
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2194625/

GPS data applied to link radar emissions, cancer

June 16, 2006

By ROBIN LORD
STAFF WRITER

DENNISPORT - Bernie Young will ask the PAVE PAWS Steering Committee again tomorrow - as he has many times before - why the Air Force is not monitoring the level of radiation coming from the Sagamore facility.

''We're monitoring Pilgrim (Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth), we monitor air quality, and people have to monitor when they put in an alternative septic system, but PAVE PAWS gets a free ride?'' he said.

The Dennisport professional engineer and naval architect took a close look at the phased array radar station after his 20-year-old daughter, Holly, was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, in 2004. He concludes there are points of land on Cape Cod that receive more exposure than other areas to microwave radiation from the radar station. And Young thinks that increased direct exposure could be unhealthy for people in those areas.

Young used Global Positioning System computer technology and combined it with the Air Force's own measurements of radiation levels emanating from PAVE PAWS. The one-time measurements were part of a recent study. Young used that data to compare the direct-exposure areas and the location of the residences of 10 Cape Codders diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma.

Young claims all 10 houses are within the increased exposure areas. They are in the direct line of sight of the ''side lobe'' that falls off from the main radar beam as it shoots 3,000 miles out over the Atlantic.

Using a computer program, Young can connect the beam to any point on land and see whether there are any hills or other intervening terrain in between to absorb the radar.

According to his calculations, the three Ewing's cases on the Upper Cape live at high elevations and on a large plateau.

Three other children with the disease in Dennis and Brewster live within 15 feet of elevation to Scargo Hill in Dennis, a plateau 160 feet above sea level that Air Force data show receive the highest level of radiation on Cape, he said.

Many studies since '79 The Air Force, which operates the station designed to pick up incoming missiles and monitor satellites and space junk, has sponsored several studies since it was installed in 1979. All found no adverse health effects from PAVE PAWS. A National Academies of Science report last year determined the radar coming from the station was not behind the elevated cancer rates among Upper Cape residents.

Late last year, a report released by the International Epidemiological Institute found ''no convincing evidence'' that pulsed radar waves emitted by PAVE PAWS are at the root of the Upper Cape's elevated cancer and disease rates.

Ewing's sarcoma is a family of tumors primarily affecting the bone. Most often, Ewing's occurs as a result of a break in certain chromosomes, but researchers have not discovered a cause.

According to the National Cancer Institute, the incidence of the disease is 2.9 in 1 million people. Ninety-fine percent of the cases are in Caucasian children under 21.

According to 2004 U.S. Census figures, just under 50,000 Caucasian children under 21 live in Barnstable County.

Unofficial cancer database Sandwich resident Judy Scichilione, who is compiling an unofficial database of childhood cancer cases on Cape Cod, said her figures show 10 cases of Ewing's have been diagnosed on Cape Cod since 1996. An additional case, in a 33-year-old woman, was diagnosed in 1983, and a 12th case was diagnosed in Edgartown last year.

Scichilione said she is very interested in Young's research, but said she worries that if the focus on the elevated childhood cancer rates is on PAVE PAWS alone, other causes may be missed.

Brian Bondarek of Sandwich, whose daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in 1999, said he believes the radar station may be a piece of the cancer puzzle. A former Desert Storm soldier, he said he supports the military and national security, but thinks the Sagamore radar facility is out-dated and should be shut down.

Young, who sent his findings in a 36-page letter to the state health department, acknowledges that many of his hypotheses are just that.

''This is still speculation, but pretty informed speculation,'' he said.

Robin Lord can be reached at rlord@capecodonline.com .

(Published: June 16, 2006)

http://tinyurl.com/jeocs



June 16, 2006

Research on PAVE PAWS health effects nears end is planned for tomorrow

http://tinyurl.com/juj6n

By AMANDA LEHMERT
STAFF WRITER

SAGAMORE - After five years and an expenditure of more than $6 million, tomorrow could be the final chance for Cape Codders to ask the Air Force and local officials health questions about the Cape radar station.

The final meeting of the PAVE PAWS Public Health Steering Group will begin at 8 a.m.


Final presentation

Where: Mashpee Senior Center, 26 Frank E. Hicks Drive, Mashpee

When: 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. tomorrow

Agenda:

8 a.m. Poster session

8:55 a.m. Open meeting,

Broadcast Signal Labs and International Epidemiology Institute presentations, with Q&A from the floor

10 a.m. Coffee break

10:30 a.m. Panel discussion: "Risk Assessment - What Does it Mean to Me?" Presentation of steering group final report. Questions must be submitted on index card before 10 a.m. One question per card, signed.

11:30 a.m. Panel discussion: "Where Do We Go From Here?" Suggestions for future study. Same rules apply for questions.


The steering group - made up of health officials from Cape towns and a state epidemiologist - watched over Air Force-funded research into the radar, which locals worried could be the cause of high cancer rates on the Upper Cape.

Steering group members have declined comment, saying they will wait until tomorrow to give a final public statement about the radar or any further actions that should be taken by the state or the Air Force.

Since a National Academy of Sciences panel found no evidence of adverse health effects from the radar, more research is unlikely to uncover problems, said Lt. Col. Paul Legendre, an Air Force liaison to the steering group. ''There are things we can do that will help further science,'' he said. ''It's just, how loud of a 'no' do you want?''

The PAVE PAWS radar station sits atop Flatrock Hill, scanning the skies for missiles, satellites and space junk. Since it started operating in 1979, residents have questioned whether the radar could cause negative health effects. The debate heated up in the 1990s, as residents concerned with high disease rates on the Cape pushed for research on exposure to radiation from the radar.

The Air Force formed the steering group five years ago to help lead research on the radar and provide a public forum on the research efforts. Since then, researchers have characterized the radiation and estimated the exposure Cape Codders experience.

Later work by the International Epidemiological Institute compared exposure estimates and disease rates and determined there was no convincing evidence that PAVE PAWS caused health problems.

Last year, the National Academy of Sciences, an independent research organization, concluded the radar is not responsible for elevated Cape cancer rates, or developmental or neurobehavioral effects. The report suggested long-term exposure testing on animals and disease-trend analysis could address lingering concerns.

Legendre didn't rule out more research, but no specific work is planned. ''We feel pretty confident now we did due diligence to the community and this radar is not a health problem to the community,'' he said yesterday.

Richard Albanese, an Air Force researcher who has raised concerns as a private citizen about PAVE PAWS, wants a more expansive epidemiological study on the facility to ease Cape residents' lingering safety fears.

Albanese said yesterday that the steering group has asked him to censor his comments about the radar research. He said the steering group asked him to remove information from a poster he submitted for tomorrow's public meeting, including elements challenging the accuracy of radar exposure analysis led by the steering group.

The four most active steering group members did not return phone calls yesterday.

Albanese has refused to change the poster for the session. He will be listening to the discussion from his Texas home via teleconference. ''They don't want him muddying the waters,'' David Dow of the Cape Cod Sierra Club said of Albanese. ''Since it's their meeting, they want a unified message.''

Amanda Lehmert can be reached at alehmert@capecodonline.com.

(Published: June 16, 2006)


Informant: Blake Levit

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Cancer study triggers debate
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080127/NEWS/801270343

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Cancer study triggers debate
http://clusteralliance.org/2008/03/06/cancer-study-triggers-debate/


Informant: Martin Weatherall



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=radar
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=cancer+cluster

Sonnabend, 17. Juni 2006

Ihre Meinung zu diesem Beitrag:
http://www.svz.de/gaestebuch/lrlbz/

Neue Sendeanlage beantragt: Goldbergerin mahnt, Mitspracherecht wahrzunehmen

Goldberg • Der Bauausschuss hat auf seiner jüngsten Sitzung den Antrag des Mobilfunkbetreibers "O2" zunächst abgelehnt, einen genehmigungspflichtigen Sendemast am Bollbrügger Weg zu errichten. Einige Einwohner schlagen trotzdem Alarm.

Ute Mierendorff etwa hat die Angst gepackt – aus gutem Grund, wie sie selbst erläutert: In der Nähe der zuletzt komplett neu errichteten Sendeanlage am "Penny"-Markt wohnend, konnte sie ab deren Inbetriebnahme keine Nacht mehr schlafen. "Pünktlich um halb drei war immer Schluss, alles vorbei – nicht nur bei mir, sondern auch bei meiner Tochter und verschiedenen Anwohnern. Andere sind gar nicht erst eingeschlafen, und viele Kinder etwa, die hier nur ab und zu mal zu Besuch waren, haben es vor Kopfschmerzen nicht ausgehalten."

Extrem hohe Belastung in zwei Zimmern

Um den Ursachen auf den Grund zu gehen, beauftragte die Familie einen Messtechniker, der extrem hohe Belastungen im Schlaf- und Kinderzimmer feststellte. "Wobei alle drei in Goldberg installierten Anlagen in unseren Räumen messbar waren", sagt Ute Mierendorff. "Daraufhin haben wir den Rat der Fachleute umgesetzt, von innen Kupfergaze auf die Außenwände der betroffenen Räume zu spachteln und Vorhänge mit einem Geflecht aus Silberfäden vor die Fenster zu hängen. Seitdem ist es besser." Kosten der Abschirmung: Mehrere tausend Euro.

Nach Angaben von "O2" sei es nicht möglich, die in Goldberg bereits vorhandenen Masten mitzunutzen, da man von dort aus Dobbertin nicht ausreichend versorgen könne.

"Golberg nicht für Dobbertin zuständig"

"Ich persönlich lehne jede weitere Sendeanlage in Goldberg und auch am Rand der Stadt ab, da die Einwohner schon jetzt einer Belastung aus drei Richtungen ausgesetzt sind. Außerdem ist Goldberg nicht dafür zuständig, dafür zu sorgen, dass Dobbertin von hier aus mitversorgt wird!", meint Ute Mierendorff.

Langzeitstudien gebe es zwar noch nicht, denn dazu sei die Technik noch nicht lange genug existent.

Omega es gibt Langzeitstudien (z.B. die Naila-Mobilfunkstudie) siehe unter: „Wissenschaft und Mobilfunk“ unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293807/

Aber Forschungsergebnisse und vor allem Erfahrungsberichte nicht nur aus Goldberg seien derart alarmierend, dass Vorsicht oberstes Gebot sein müsse: "Die die Gesundheit schädigende Strahlung betrifft Menschen wie Tiere, was Mobilfunkbetreiber stets als nicht erwiesen bezeichnen. Dabei gibt es zum Beispiel diverse Untersuchungen von Tierärzten, die jede andere Ursache für Krankheit bzw. Tod von Tieren ausschließen konnten.

Omega siehe dazu Die "Rinderstudie" unter:
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/350564/

Leider begreifen viele Menschen den Wert der Gesundheit erst dann, wenn sie verloren ist. Dabei ist sie unser höchstes Gut!"

Es sei sehr wichtig, die Goldberger über die vielleicht noch folgenden Verhandlungen zwischen der Stadt und "O2" zu informieren. Gemäß einer Vereinbarung zwischen den kommunalen Spitzenverbänden und den Mobilfunkbetreibern habe die Kommune die Möglichkeit, ihrerseits Standortvorschläge für neue Sendeanlagen zu unterbreiten, die vorrangig zu prüfen seien. Diese Form der Mitsprache dürfe sich Goldberg nicht entgehen lassen. "Wenn wir uns nicht rühren, werden die Entscheidungen ohne uns getroffen und mit Sicherheit spielen die Belange der Einwohner dann keine Rolle mehr", so Ute Mierendorff. Bei der Stadt habe die 41-Jährige bereits persönlich vorgesprochen und sei auf viel Verständnis gestoßen, worüber sie sich sehr freue.

"O2" habe seinem Unternehmen vor etwa vier Wochen einen Vertrag angeboten, der den Bau der Sendeanlage auf dem Firmengelände am Bollbrügger Weg besiegeln soll, sagte Norbert Schultz, Geschäftsführer der Agrargenossenschaft eG Goldberg, gestern auf Anfrage. Grundsätzlich sei er nicht gegen das Vorhaben, habe die Angelegenheit jedoch zur Sicherheit dem Bauernverband zur rechtlichen Prüfung übergeben, "um uns kein Eigentor zu schießen". Der Betreiber habe sich um alle Genehmigungen kümmern wollen, gestellte Bedingung sei nur gewesen, dass der Netzbetreiber jederzeit an seine Anlage herankomme.

Bei "O2" war die Entscheidung des Bauausschusses gestern noch nicht bekannt. Bernd Holter, Pressesprecher der "Region Ost": "Wie auch immer eine Entscheidung ausfällt – wir akzeptieren sie. Bei einer Ablehnung werden wir weiterhin mit der Stadt in Dialog treten, um eine Lösung zu finden." Ilja Baatz

© Schweriner Volkszeitung online/Impressum, 1995-2006

http://www.svz.de/newsmv/lr/lbz/17.06.06/3966840/3966840.html

Obwohl Meinrad in ganz Europa herumgekommen ist und auch in Vaduz an schönster Wohnlage eine Wohnung sein Eigen nennt, kann er sich keinen schöneren Platz vorstellen als eben sein Malbuntal. Er habe hier alle möglichen Zeiten erlebt, das mondäne Leben und das furchtbare Leben, das Autogerassel Tag und Nacht, das ihn schon viele Nerven gekostet habe und immer noch koste, und dann das Nachtleben von Malbun, das ihn besonders störe. Und eben auch die Malbuner Mobilfunkantenne, die er von seinem Schlafzimmer aus sehe. Schon seit vielen Jahren beschäftige ihn diese Strahlenbelastung. Meinrad ist überzeugt, dass vor allem diese Antennenstrahlung an seiner heute etwas angeschlagenen Gesundheit die Hauptschuld trägt. «Die Strahlung ist unnötigerweise viel zu hoch und die Antenne steht mitten in bewohntem Gebiet, das ist für mich unverständlich. Wenn man schon diesen Mobilfunk braucht, dann sollen die Anbieter doch die Antennen so platzieren, dass es den Menschen nicht schadet», ist sein inniger Wunsch. Er habe das schon dem Triesenberger Vorsteher gesagt, doch bisher leider ohne Erfolg ...

http://www.vaterland.li/page/lv/artikel_detail.cfm?id=19104 (Auszug)

Big Issue article enclosed.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/big_issue_magazine_article_06June2006.pdf


Eileen O'Connor
Trustee - EM Radiation Research Trust http://www.radiationresearch.org

Diesen Artikel der Studentenzeitschrift der TU München gibt es zwar schon länger, aber er war bisher noch nicht im Verteiler.

http://impulsiv.fs.tum.de/81/ems


Gruß

Paul

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Funk-Netzwerke
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/257661/

WLAN
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293874/

WLAN Funknetz als Strahlenschleuder?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293874/

Strahlend ins Internet-WLAN
http://www.ises-suedbaden.de/pdf/WLAN.pdf

WLAN in Schulen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1053669/

Mit dem Laptop in den Unterricht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1054537/

Gewerkschaft warnt vor W-LAN im Klassenzimmer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2877989/

WLAN via Laptops
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1041099/

Gesundheitsgefahren durch kabellose Laptops
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/191214/
http://tinyurl.com/88sg2

Laptops machen unfruchtbar
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/433708/

Bluetooth und Gesundheit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/480815/

http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2004/Electromagnetic-Fields-EMF1jun04.htm

This is a shocking statistic!

Arthur Firstenberg writes:

The California Department of Health Services has concluded that, on the basis of a telephone survey, 120,000 Californians - and by implication one million Americans - have left their jobs because of electromagnetic pollution in the workplace. The people who have left their homes for such a reason are not being counted by anyone.


Informant: Martin Weatherall

Film „Die Glocken von Sankt Mamerta“ soll auf die gesundheitlichen Folgen von Mobilfunk aufmerksam machen

9. Jun, 16:21

Der 31minütige Film vom Verein für gesundheitsverträglichen Mobilfunk VGM wurde aus aktuellem Anlass gedreht. Zu sehen sind unter anderem die diversen Standorte der Mobilfunkantennen in Liechtenstein. Außerdem kommen Liechtensteiner, sowie ausländische Fachpersonen zu Wort, die sich mit den Auswirkungen dieser Strahlen befassen.

Landwirt Günther Wohlwend aus Mauren berichtet in „Die Glocken von Mamerta“ wie es seiner Familie und seinem Vieh ergeht, seit unmittelbar neben seinem Bauernhof eine Mobilfunkantenne aufgebaut wurde. Die Kühe seien schwach, er habe einen Schlaganfall erlitten und seine Frau sei an Krebs erkrankt. Anlass für diese Produktion ist ein Postulat aus dem Jahr 2000 welche die Liechtensteiner Regierung in der kommenden Landtagssitzung beantworten wird.

Der Film „Die Glocken von Sankt Mamerta“ kann übers Internet unter http://www.telefonie.li oder beim Filmemacher Klaus Schädler persönlich per Telefon unter 260 00 60 bezogen werden. Ob er im Landeskanal ausgestrahlt wird, steht noch nicht fest.

Copyright © 2004 by Radio Liechtenstein

http://tinyurl.com/z6w6x

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«Wir sind keine spinnigen Querulanten»

Der Verein für gesundheitsverträglichen Mobilfunk will aufklären – immer wieder aber kämpft er mit Gegenwind. Die nächst größere Hürde ist die Postulatsbeantwortung der Regierung. Die Vereinsmitglieder zeigen sich schockiert.

Von Bettina Frick

Ein «Ich liebe dich» per SMS, ein süßes Foto von dem Vierbeiner per MMS oder einfach ein kurzer Anruf, wenn man im Stau steckt – für viele ist es nicht mehr wegzudenken, das kleine, handliche, mobile Telefon. So praktisch und bequem es ist, machen Mobilfunk-Gegner auf die hohen Strahlenbelastungen aufmerksam, die der Gesundheit vermutlich schaden. Im Hinblick auf das Postulat des Vereins für gesundheitsverträglichen Mobilfunk VGM, das nächste Woche im Landtag von der Regierung beantwortet wird, möchte der Verein einmal mehr auf die Problematik hinweisen. Dazu luden gestern zwei Vereinsvertreter zur Medienorientierung ein.

Katastrophenklang

«Das sind keine Hochzeitsglocken, das ist vielmehr ein Katastrophenklang», erklärt Vereinspräsident Walter Matt das Glockengeläute, das die Geschichte des Films «Die Glocken von Sankt Mamerta» begleitet. Der Film zeigt Menschen mit Schlafproblemen, Depressionen, Konzentrationsschwierigkeiten – sie alle wohnen neben Mobilfunkantennen. Ein Bauer erzählt von seinen Kühen, die gestorben sind seit die Mobilfunkantenne neben dem Bauernhof aufgestellt wurde. Er selbst erlitt einen Schlaganfall, seine Frau ist Krebspatientin. Verschiedene Menschen sprechen sich gegen die Strahlenbelastung des Mobilfunks aus. Gemacht wurde der halbstündige Film von Klaus Schädler, der als Vereinsmitglied die Medien betreut. Alle elf Gemeinden des Landes sowie die Landesverwaltung erhielten diesen Film als DVD oder VHS-Kassette mit der Bitte, ihn in der Woche vom 12. bis 18. Juni täglich zweimal über den Gemeinde-TV-Kanal, respektive den Landeskanal auszustrahlen. Neun von elf Gemeinden sprachen sich gegen eine Übertragung auf dem Gemeindekanal aus, zwei Gemeinden, Triesen und Gamprin, haben noch nicht geantwortet. Die Gemeinden argumentierten, dass der Film aus Präjudizgründen nicht ausgestrahlt wird. «Wir fühlen uns nicht ernst genommen», sagt Klaus Schädler enttäuscht. Deshalb denkt der VGM über einen zweiten Filmteil nach: «Wir haben so viel Material über all diese verheerenden Lügengeschichten.»

Schockierter VGM

Mit Lügengeschichten spricht Klaus Schädler außerdem die Informationsbroschüre der Regierung von 1999 an. Der Mobilfunkgegner zitiert: «Wussten Sie, dass sie eine Glühbirne, die ein Meter neben Ihnen leuchtet, der gleichen Strahlung aussetzt wie eine 30 Meter entfernte Mobilfunkantenne unter Einhaltung der in Liechtenstein geltenden Grenzwerte? Oder dass Ihr PC-Bildschirm im Abstand von 30 Zentimetern eine fünf- mal höhere Strahlung als die Mobilfunkantennen abgibt? Sie sollten somit den Mobilfunkantennen nicht mit mehr Skepsis entgegentreten als einer Glühlampe, dem Fernseher oder Heim-Computer.» «Das lässt sich schlicht und einfach nicht vergleichen», sagt Walter Matt. Ebenso sei die Aussage der Regierung falsch, dass bei einer tieferen Strahlung die Telekommunikation nicht mehr möglich ist. Umso interessanter ist für Klaus Schädler und Walter Matt, dass die Regierung in ihrer aktuellen Postulatsbeantwortung schreibt: «Die Frage, ab welcher Intensität und unter welchen Bedingungen elektromagnetische Strahlung die Gesundheit beeinträchtigt, kann heute nach streng wissenschaftlichen Kriterien immer noch nicht eindeutig beantwortet werden. Es existieren Verdachtsmomente bezüglich einer gesteigerten Elektrosensitivität und der Schädlichkeit von elektromagnetischer Strahlung für die Gesundheit.» Umso schockierter ist der VGM, dass die Regierung dennoch keinen Handlungsbedarf sieht. «Der Handlungsspielraum zur Regelung der Materie im Rahmen der technischen und rechtlichen Möglichkeiten ist für Liechtenstein allerdings eng. Hierzu ist auch zu erwähnen, dass die Schweiz und Liechtenstein im internationalen Vergleich bereits tiefe Grenzwerte festgelegt haben», schreibt die Regierung in der Postulatsbeantwortung.

«Wir wollen lediglich aufklären»

Aufgrund des heutigen Wissensstandes empfehlen Wissenschaftler und Ärzte die Kompromissbelastung von maximal 0,06 V/m. «Das wollen wir erreichen», sind sich Walter Matt und Klaus Schädler einig. «Wir sind keine spinnigen Querulanten», will Walter Matt festhalten. Sie wollten lediglich die Bevölkerung aufklären. Klaus Schädler ergänzt: «Kein Gemeinderat oder Vorsteher, kein Landtagsabgeordneter und Regierungsmitglied wird später einmal sagen können, er oder sie hätten von den verheerenden Folgen der Mobilfunkstrahlung nichts gewusst.»

Der Film «Die Glocken von Sankt Mamerta» ist bei Klaus Schädler, dem Filmemacher selbst, unter Tel. +423 260 00 60 erhältlich.

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Tower of anger

Samantha Craggs - SIMCOE REFORMER
Friday June 02, 2006

The Simcoe Reformer — Since February, Dan Currie hasn’t felt quite himself. An accountant by trade, ordinarily quick thinking and alert, Currie couldn’t concentrate. He lost his train of thought midway through sentences. Then came the dizziness, nausea, and a tingle that seemed to stretch from one side of his brain to the other. Currie worked every day in his newly-renovated century home under the looming shadow of the Union Street water tower, which since fall has had a Rogers cell phone antennae on top of it. His family was due to move into the home earlier this year. Instead, he packed his office and worked out of the family’s temporary apartment on Evergreen Hill Road. At first, Currie was skeptical that the tower could cause his illness. His wife had heard about the potential problems of radiation exposure. He thought it might be the power of suggestion. But the more he looked into it, the more neighbours he encountered with similar health problems, some of whom didn’t even know the antennae was there. He gets ill when he is near the tower. Each time he walks away, it takes longer to recover. He has had blood tests, an ultrasound and a CAT scan. No doctor seems to know what is wrong with him. Currie knows evidence of the health effects of such antennae is inconclusive. He knows Norfolk County followed Health Canada guidelines when leasing the space at the top of the water tower. But if there is even a chance that it is making him and others sick, he wants it moved. “I am mad. I am angry,” he said. “I may have to put a for sale sign on my home. And how could I in good conscience let someone else move in?” He will also not move his three children, aged seven to 14, into the home that has been in his family for more than 20 years. Some research suggests the effects can be more serious for children, including higher incidence of childhood leukemia. The tower is also near two elementary schools, a hospital and a nursing home. Reports say Elgin Avenue Public School is more than 100 metres from the tower. At recess, though, children play on the grassy slope that nearly reaches the tower’s base. On Tuesday night, with a staff report in hand, Norfolk councillors will vote on whether to move the antennae. The report, submitted by public works manager Eric D’Hondt and Glen Steen from the Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit’s healthy environmental team, recommends leaving it there. It also says the county has no escape clause in its lease agreement with Rogers Wireless. The best it could do is ask Rogers to voluntarily move it, which Rogers has said it will not do. Requesting Rogers to remove the equipment, the report says, could impact “not only other telecommunications equipment installations on the Simcoe water tower but also the telecommunications equipment installed on other county water towers.” These leases mean revenue for the water and wastewater division. The health unit has also concluded that there is no conclusive evidence such towers, by current standards, are health hazards. Currie said it is the health unit’s responsibility to consider the people who are already ill, and to err on the side of caution. “I still have faith in council and that councillors will do the right thing,” he said. “All we’re asking is to not take the chance with me and my kids.”

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Currie and David Cole, a Simcoe Composite School law teacher who has been using the issue as a lesson in grassroots activism for his students, now have a chart. The names are cut off so as not to reveal individual identities, but along the top are symptoms. Abdominal pain. Itching and burning. Mood swings and depression. Floaters and spots on the eyes. Underneath is a check mark for each Simcoe resident experiencing the ailments since the antennae has been installed. Fatigue: three. Nausea: three. Headaches: nine. “We’ve talked to everybody,” Cole said. “I’ve spent time on porches and in living rooms, listening to the symptoms. It was remarkable how many people repeated similar things.” The team has an ally in Magda Havas, Trent University professor and expert in cell phone tower radiation effects. She likens cell phone tower radiation to asbestos. “In the future,” she said, “we’re going to look back at this era and say ‘why did we ignore that data?’” Health Canada regulations have been followed in the Simcoe case, but Health Canada regulations are lax, she said. “Our guidelines aren’t there to protect us from prolonged exposure, they’re there to protect flesh from heating up in the microwave,” she said. “They’re based on dead meat, not living people.” Regulations and research are lacking because it is a highly political issue with money and modern conveniences at stake. “A lot needs to be done,” she said.

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Health Canada has reviewed and re-reviewed its regulation, which is Safety Code 6. In 1996, The Royal Society Panel looked hard at it, then updated its findings in 2001. The conclusion is the same – when it comes to knowing for sure the health affects, there is no conclusion. Simcoe councillor Peter Black will chair Tuesday’s meeting. He does not fault staff or the health department, and will keep an open mind. “The health department has to rely on the factual scientific evidence out there,” he said. “Our authority says we are within regulatory standards. I guess it’s up to us as councillors to look at the anecdotal evidence and see if that’s enough to employ the precautionary principle.” Representatives from Rogers and the health unit were not available yesterday. Rogers confirmed that a representative will be at Tuesday’s meeting.

Samantha Craggs
(519) 426-5710 ext. 136
scraggs@bowesnet.com

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