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  • Britain's phone tower regulations

    In the wake of the Stewart Report, the British Government has introduced changes to the planning regulations for the siting of new telecommunications masts. The new regime will: require carriers to engage in public consultation for all proposed new masts (including those under 15 metres); increase the amount of time given to local councils to process applications for masts; increase fees to councils to assist with public consultation expenses; 
  • Salzburg Resolution

    At a meeting in Salsburg in June attendees endorsed a resolution calling for measures to protect community health from phone tower radiation. Salzburg Resolution on Mobile Telecommunication Base Stations International Conference on Cell Tower Siting Linking Science & Public Health, Salzburg, June 7-8, 2000 1. It is recommended that development rights for the erection and for operation of a base station should be subject to a permission procedure. The protocol should include .
  • Phone towers - call for new laws

    The proliferation of mobile phone antennas and the actions of some carriers have generated a backlash. Communities, councils and state politicians are calling for changes to legislation. Dame Nellie Melba impacted a generation. Though less than five metres in height, she sang like a nightingale, to the veneration of audiences worldwide. According to eyewitnesses, Adolf Hitler was also less than five metres in height.