EMF Journal

Cell Tower Health Hazard Alert – January, 2010 Update

Cell tower installation planned by T-Mobile at Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, MD

The T-Mobile tower will be 120 feet tall, rising above the tree top level, and will be approximately 400 feet from homes on Clearwood Road.  According to the plans in the MC PTSA Cell Tower Report, T-Mobile will rent out 3 additional antennas, which will further increase the RFR levels

Check Out – www.BioInitiative.Org (published August 2007) for peer-reviewed, published studies on the non-thermal bio-effects of wireless emissions.

“Studies link cell tower radiation to learning difficulties, leukemia, eye tumors, diabetes, brain tumors, fatigue, headache, damage to blood-brain barrier, DNA strand breaks, chromosome aberrations, sleep disorders, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, autism, and cancer at EMF/RFR levels hundreds or even thousands of times below limits currently established by the FCC. The lowest limits are in Salzburg Austria at the BioInitiative recommended exposure level of 0.1 umW/cm2.  In the U.S. it is 1000 uW/cm2.

STAND UP FOR THE HEALTH OF THE WALT WHITMAN COMMUNITY.

Oppose The Installation of this Radiation-Emitting Cell Tower!

Contact the following to tell them you do not consent to this dangerous radiation-emitting cell tower:

• Owner: T-Mobile  240-264-8800
• Walt Whitman Principal Dr.Goodwin Alan_S_Goodwin@mcpsmd.org 301-320-6585
• Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jerry D. Weast Suzanne_Peang-Meth@mcpsmd.org 301-279-3381
• PTSA Co-Presidents: Vicky Strella strella@att.net & Sue Kanter kanterdsw@aol.com
• Wireless Radiation Alert Network (WRAN): Angela Flynn angelaflynn80@msn.com 301-229-0282

(Additional contacts found here:  http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/whitmanhs/parents/ptsa/committees.shtml

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/superintendent/ http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/whitmanhs/general/contact.shtml )

Concerns about Cell Tower Radiofrequency Radiation (RFR)

“Radio frequencies emitted from mobile telephone towers will have deleterious medical effects to people within the near vicinity according to a large body of scientific literature. Babies and children will be particularly sensitive to the mutagenic and carcinogenic effects of the radio frequency radiation.  It is therefore criminal to place one of these aerials on or near a school.”  Helen Caldicott, MD, pediatrician and co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility

“The FCCs current exposure guidelines…are thermally based, and do not apply to chronic, non-thermal exposure situations…. Therefore, the generalization that the guidelines protect human beings from harm by any or all mechanisms is not justified.” Norbert Hankin, Radiation Protection Division, EPA

Palm Beach, Florida, Los Angeles, California, and New Zealand prohibit cell phone towers and antennas on school property due to safety concerns. The European Parliament recommends that cell towers should not be sited near schools. The National Academy of Science called for more research on risks on long-term exposure to children and pregnant women.

For more information contact: Wireless Radiation Alert Network (WRAN)  Angela Flynn angelaflynn80@msn.com

Montgomery County PTSA cell tower report for the proposed Walt Whitman Site http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/whitmanhs/events/2009/7WAN526A-A&E-LERevC.pdf

OET Bulletin 65  FCC Guidelines for Evaluating Exposure to RF Emissions  http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Documents/bulletins/oet65

BioInitiative Report – http://www.bioinitiative.org/

Los Angeles Unified School District and Local U.S. Resolutions on Cell Towers

2009 Resolution on Wireless Telecommunication Installations  http://www.cloutnow.org/

2009 European Parliament Resolution Health concerns associated with electromagnetic fields – http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P6-TA-2009-0216+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN

The European voted to recommend precautions be taken to protect human health with regard to wireless technologies, such as mobile phones, Wi-Fi/Wi-Max, Bluetooth, DECT portable phones and cell towers. That certain establishments be kept free of wireless radiation, including schools, day care centers, retirement homes and health care institutions;

January 2008 National Academy of Science Report Identification of Research Needs Relating to Potential Biological or Adverse Health Effects of Wireless Communication Devices – http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12036.html

The National Research Council (NRC), an arm of the National Academy of Science issued a report saying that we don’t know enough about the potential health risks of long-term exposure to RF energy from cell phones, cell towers, television towers, and other components of our communications system. The scientists emphasized the unknown risks to the health of children, pregnant women, and fetuses as well as of workers whose jobs entail high exposure to RF (radiofrequency)

EMF resolutions signed by concerned scientist and medical doctors

Vienna resolution 1998   www.emrnetwork.org/research/vienna.htm

Salzburg Austria Resolution 2000   www.salzburg.gv.at/salzburg_resolution_e.pdf

Freiburger Appeal 2002  www.laleva.cc/environment/freiburger_appeal.html

Catania Italy 2002   www.emrpolicy.org/faq/catania.pdf

Benevento Italy Resolution 2006   http://www.icems.eu/benevento_resolution.htm

Venice Italy Resolution 2008   http://www.icems.eu/resolution.htm

Puerto Alegre Resoltuion 2009   www.icems.eu

Advocacy Groups in US

http://emrpolicy.org/ www.electromagnetichealth.org http://www.momsforsafewireless.org/

www.thepeoplesinitiative.org http://www.microwavenews.com http://www.cloutnow.org/

PowerWatch UK Database of Cell Tower Studies http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/science/studies.asp

(Please scroll down to the section on Mobile Phone Masts, the term for Cell Towers in the UK)

WHO Database – 10 Out of 14 Peer Reviewed Studies Found Significant Health Symptoms

http://www.scribd.com/doc/11484728/10-Out-of-14-Peer-Reviewed-Studies-Found-Significant-Health-Symptoms

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TBB-4VRWNH1-2&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=b22f07bbd6f4e2076bdc07dbc4e94df6

Dr. Andrew Goldsworthy, BSc, PhD and other EMF/RF Researchers  http://bemri.org/archive/hese-uk/en/heseuk/who.php

The Birds, Bees and Mankind, Destroying Nature with EMF/RFR  http://www.broschuerenreihe.net/international/index.html

2002 letter from  EPA stating that the FCC’s standards are “thermally based, and do not apply to chronic, non-thermal exposure situations” http://www.emrnetwork.org/position/noi_response/noi_epa_response.pdf

International Association of Firefighters moratorium of cell tower siting on Fire stations http://www.iaff.org/hs/Facts/CellTowerFinal.asp

Report:  Cell Towers and Wireless Communications – Living with Radiofrequency Radiation

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24352550/Cell-Tower-Rpt