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Sydney’s Warringah Council has rejected an offer of half a million dollars to allow construction of a mobile phone base station on the roof of its civic centre. The proponent, Ozitel, has offered to rent the roof space to accommodate the facility, for $25, 000 per year for ten years with an option to renew for another ten.
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The UK’s Department of Health is implementing the recommendations of the Stewart Report released last May. On 8 December, it announced that it will provide £7 million for research on the health effects of radiation from mobile phones. The research program, to be jointly financed by government and industry, will be headed by Sir William Stewart who chaired the inquiry on mobile phones.
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EMRAA looks at some of the problems with Australia's draft RF standard. A year in preparation, the new draft Standard for radiation protection is now available for public review. The Standard, which covers the frequencies from 3 kHz to 300 GHz—including the range used by mobile phones and base stations—
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Has the Vatican discovered a unique way of bringing people to God? Dozens of its radio transmitters, which transmit religious messages around the world in 35 languages, are situated in Cesano, a village north of Rome, and emit levels of radiation beyond those allowed by Italian standards. Locals claim that transmissions have interfered with phone calls, TV sets and doorbells and some say they can even hear the transmissions over their phones.
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The results of the inquiry have now been released. After 14 months, 149 submissions and six public hearings in three states, the Senate Inquiry into EMR concluded with the release of the Committee’s reports on 4 May. Three reports were tabled, one by the Chair, Democrat Senator Lyn Allison, and two dissenting reports by the Labor and Liberal parties respectively.
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In early June 2001, after a period of brief but intense pain, one of the newer entrants to the telecommunications market passed into commercial oblivion. In its short but spectacular lifetime, One.Tel attracted enormous public and media attention and generated unprecedented community focus on the telecommunications industry. One of the special qualities that One.Tel brought to the industry was its unique way of liaising with the community regarding the installation of mobile phone
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At a conference in Italy at the end of last year, Roman Catholic Bishops resolved to ban mobile phone antennas from all churches in the country. “Even if the scientific facts are not evident yet it was thought best to avoid the possible risks of magnetic radiation”, said a spokesman for the Bishops. In the UK, the Church of England is considering a similar ban.
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Why is it that, despite years of research, science has not yet resolved the issue of whether or not electromagnetic radiation is harmful to the body? In a recent publication Dr Alan Frey has suggested that there are a number of reasons why “we don’t have a credible body of biological data involving electromagnetic fields on which to base public health decisions.”
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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;
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Dr Pamela Sykes has failed to obtain funding to proceed with a study on mobile phone radiation. A pilot program conducted by Sykes found that transgenic mice exposed for 25 days to periods of radiation at 900 MHz (such as is emitted by digital mobile phones) showed significant changes to DNA. While Sykes had hypothesised that the exposure would increase the number of DNA breaks, the pilot in fact found that there was a protective effect.
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Finally, here is a thought to ponder as we enter the new millennium: “..The need for an alternative vision of human progress and development based on social justice, ecological sanity, equality and human rights is no less essential at the end of the century than it was at the beginning. People in the protest movements of today are advancing much-needed ideas that will be considered orthodox a further hundred years on.
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Two new studies show a clear link between low magnetic fields from power sources and childhood leukemia. In 1979 Nancy Wertheimer released the results of a five year investigation which showed that children who lived near high-current wiring were twice as likely to develop cancer as those living near low-current wiring. This remarkable and unexpected discovery suggested, for the first time, that exposures from the power system might pose a serious public health hazard.
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