The Age newspaper, Melbourne Australia By Adam Morton May 19, 2006 ELECTRICAL workers will refuse to work on or near operational mobile phone towers in Victoria until safety standards are introduced, fearing exposure to electromagnetic radiation causes cancer. The Electrical Trades Union ban came as preliminary testing at RMIT University’s business school found no evidence
Read more →Comments from Lachlan Mudgeon the RMIT cell tower controversy have been posted at: Important comments on the RMIT cell tower case Scroll down to comment #9
Read more →The following may seem at first glance a bit “off-topic” for this list but it is noteworthy that the United Nations is at last taking note of the nefarious activities of the corporate world. Perhaps its time they widen the scope of their investigations to include corporate corruption of the activities of the WHO…. Part
Read more →I have received recently several inquiries about where Stewart Fist’s “Electric words” web site is. Stewart is now re-establishing his previous site at: http://electricwords.emfacts.com/ He has also posted the 1994 CSIRO report at: http://electricwords.emfacts.com/csiro/ Don
Read more →http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/May/12/local/stories/01local.htm Santa Cruz preschool closes citing cell tower radiation By ROGER SIDEMAN SENTINEL STAFF WRITERSANTA CRUZ A new Westside elementary school is closing its doors following plans by First Congregational Church to install three cell-phone transmitters next door atop its 80-foot steeple. Una Familia, the private school at 900 High St. that serves 25 kindergarten
Read more →Comments from Katharina Gustavs the RMIT cell tower controversy have been posted at: Important comments on the RMIT cell tower case Scroll down to comment #8 Don
Read more →Note that further comments from Panayis Zambellis about the RMIT cell tower controversy have been posted at: Important comments on the RMIT cell tower case Scroll down to comment #7. Don
Read more →From Microwave News: Dear Colleagues: A brain tumor cluster in Melbourne, Australia, is under investigation. Some are blaming mobile phone towers, while some are worried about exposures to other types of EMFs. Still others say it is all a sad coincidence. We have posted a short item on our Web site, http://www.microwavenews.com We encourage you
Read more →Last night several more relevant comments about the RMIT brain tumour / cell tower controversy came in and have been included on message # 460. Go to: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=460 Don
Read more →An additional comment from Paul Doyon has been added to the last message. See: Important comments on the RMIT cell tower case Don
Read more →Following a message I sent out on the bioelectromagnetics list on the RMIT building controversy, several comments were posted that are quite relevant to the case and dispute the understanding that being directly underneath a cellphone antenna facility means the RF/MW levels are minimal. As one technician said to me just yesterday: “If you have
Read more →As for the phone tower cancer fears at the Melbourne Australia RMIT building I have to suggest that it is premature to point the blame at the cell phone towers on top of the RMIT building. The TV aerial shots of the building roof show the antennas mounted on a very tall and substantial equipment
Read more →From The Age Melbourne, May 12, 2006: Phone tower cancer fears http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/phone-tower-cancer-fears/ 2006/05/11/1146940676777.html A SPATE of brain tumours among staff has forced RMIT University to close part of its business school and test for radiation emissions from rooftop phone towers. As staff reacted with shock, the university yesterday shut the top two floors of the
Read more →From ABC Online: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1636462.htm Thursday, May 11, 2006. 5:26pm (AEST) Brain tumour cases prompt uni building closure Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) has launched a second health and safety investigation in just five years, after seven staff members from the University’s Bourke Street campus were diagnosed with brain tumours. Five of the cases are
Read more →National Post (The Financial Post) (Canada) March 8, 2006 Wednesday All but Toronto Edition Small school sparks wireless furor BYLINE: Anne Marie Owens, National Post SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A1 DATELINE: THUNDER BAY, Ont. THUNDER BAY, Ont. – Fred Gilbert is a renowned scientist, an innovative administrator, and an impassioned advocate of the technological advances required
Read more →Just to let everyone know for the two last days my Domain name had expired (Oops, thats what happened to Stewart Fist!) so any messages to me would have bounced back. All is well now as I have just renewed it to 2008. Good thing Motorola was napping! Any messages sent to me since last
Read more →Dear Colleagues: Microwave News has launched a new Web site. Same address, http://www.microwavenews.com , but a whole new look. Redesigning these pages took much longer than expected –that’s why you haven’t heard from us in a long time. The new site will make it easier for us to post spot news, as well as to
Read more →Keeping a Democratic Web The New York Times | Editorial http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050206E.shtml Tuesday 02 May 2006 “Net neutrality” is a concept that is still unfamiliar to most Americans, but it keeps the Internet democratic. Cable and telephone companies that provide Internet service are talking about creating a two-tiered Internet, in which Web sites that pay them
Read more →From Robert Reidlinger: They will investigate complaints of malfunctioning car alarms but ignore human health complaints such as headaches , sleep disturbance,ringing and buzzing in the ears and head,fatigue,blurry vision and even cancers??? Robert ************************************************************************** “Communications regulator Ofcom has said the problem also affects other areas and says it will investigate following complaints.” Mystery as
Read more →From Katharina Gustavs / Eileen O’Connor: Telegraph 29 April 2006 (United Kingdom) Pylon cancer fears put £7bn blight on house prices By Nic Fleming, Medical Correspondent (Filed: 29/04/2006) Up to £7 billion will be wiped off property values if the Government accepts the advice of experts that homes should no longer be built near overhead
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