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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 By MARIANNE KELLY PEOPLE protesting about the installation of cellphone masts are angry that 2degrees has rejected alternative sites away from residential properties. Protests erupted last week when staff from the telecommunications company arrived, with security and police back-up, to put in equipment in Clovelly Road and Pigeon Mountain Road, Bucklands Beach, and at Page Point in Mellons Bay. Efforts to look for alternative sites came to nothing and, in September, Manukau City Council agreed to the Bucklands Beach network licences. A long-standing campaign to stop the Page Point mast on heritage grounds was also lost when a licence was approved just before Christmas. "We could have come up with a solution," says Sharon Stewart, city councillor for Howick. In its assessment of site locations, 2degrees had the following to say about the Bucklands Beach sites: ? OUTSIDE 145 CLOVELLY ROAD: This site uses the natural elevation of the terrain and is centrally located within the target coverage area. It has been chosen as it has a very good line of sight down into Eastern Beach and has sufficient elevation for the Bucklands Beach plateau. It meets all of the coverage requirements for the area. Vodafone has chosen a site on this road for similar technical reasons. Alternatives Musick Point: Another site at Musick Point is planned to provide marine coverage. It is too far away from the target coverage area to provide any significant benefit. Signal will not be able to get past the Clovelly Road ridge which goes down into Eastern Beach and, because of the distance (from the proposed Musick Point site location by the memorial building), it will not offer much coverage south of the golf course. Macleans Park (end of Bleakhouse Road): No existing pole. Coverage will be good down into the central and eastern areas of Eastern Beach. However the site is not centrally located within the required coverage area resulting in poor coverage to the areas to the north of Clovelly Road. Also this site is close to the existing Macleans Road site. ? OUTSIDE 25 PIGEON MOUNTAIN ROAD: This site uses the natural elevation of the terrain and is centrally located within the target coverage area. It meets all coverage requirements for the area. Least view disruptions at number 25. Alternatives Outside park, Himalaya Drive: No street lights and fairly large trees. Any structure would need to be sited within the road reserve. This park is lower than Prince Regent Drive and any structure would need to make up that height difference. Pigeon Mountain Reserve sports ground: This area has poor visibility into the general Prince Regent Drive area and will provide no coverage to the marina area. Pigeon Mountain: This site has far too much elevation and will be difficult to control coverage resulting in excessive network interference. Also Half Moon Rise will prevent quality coverage into the marina area. Community centre, scout hall, Pigeon Mountain and the tennis club: These areas have poor visibility into the general Prince Regent Drive area and will provide no coverage to the marina area. ? OUTSIDE 25 PIGEON MOUNTAIN ROAD: This site uses the natural elevation of the terrain and is centrally located within the target coverage area. It meets all coverage requirements for the area. Least view disruptions at number 25. Alternatives Outside park, Himalaya Drive: No street lights and fairly large trees. Any structure would need to be sited within the road reserve. This park is lower than Prince Regent Drive and any structure would need to make up that height difference. Pigeon Mountain Reserve sports ground: This area has poor visibility into the general Prince Regent Drive area and will provide no coverage to the marina area. Pigeon Mountain: This site has far too much elevation and will be difficult to control coverage resulting in excessive network interference. Also Half Moon Rise will prevent quality coverage into the marina area. Community centre, scout hall, Pigeon Mountain and the tennis club: These areas have poor visibility into the general Prince Regent Drive area and will provide no coverage to the marina area.
By EVAN HARDING - The Southland Times Invercargill residents opposed to a cellphone tower being built in Windsor have called on like-minded residents to boycott Telecom and the video shop where it is being constructed. Work on the Telecom tower in King St began yesterday morning, with contractors digging a big hole in the ground in the back section of the United Video Shop. Telecom has decided to construct the tower despite 675 people signing a petition saying they didn't want it. About a dozen Windsor residents yesterday met The Southland Times at the site, saying they believed it would be an eyesore in the middle of a residential area, house values would drop and it could affect people's health. One of those residents, Joan Kennedy, yesterday urged upset residents to quit Telecom for another provider and to buy their videos elsewhere. United Video Shop owner Roy Barnsdale declined to comment, but a Telecom spokesman said it had acted responsibly in the placement of the mobile phone site and gone "above and beyond the level of communication and consultation required by law, so we would be disappointed if we do lose some customers." Invercargill MP Eric Roy yesterday said the safety issues associated with cellphone towers were the Government's responsibility. He had looked into the issue after being approached by residents and told them it would only generate 1/50th of the maximum allowable radiation levels. Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt did not return calls yesterday. At an Invercargill City Council meeting in December, Mr Shadbolt agreed to make another submission to Telecom on the issue. A Telecom spokesman yesterday confirmed Mr Shadbolt had rung its community relations boss Paul Leslie early this month to relay the residents' concerns. Telecom responded saying the site was chosen after a rigorous selection process and was a permitted activity under the Invercargill City Council district plan. Telecom had modified the design of the site to minimise visual impact and offered to have the site tested independently when it was up, Telecom told the may 17/01/2010 at 23:06:46 Dear Ministers, bureaucrats, experts and interested citizens Please find attached information sent to me by Andrew Goldsworthy, of Imperial College London, in response to recent claims that cellphones can help with Alzheimers disease. Andrew is very concerned about these claims and invites you to use his material as you see fit, circulate it and post it relevant websites. I would be grateful if Sally/Martin and or Jim could urgently arrange for the Interagency Committee to urgently review the claims about cellphones and Alzheimers (and all the other relevant research about the safety or otherwise of EMR). If cellphones can influence the brain in a way that can cause, contribute to or delay Alzheimers, then it is yet more evidence that EMR can cause biological effects at well below the levels allowed by NZS2772:1 1999 and that far more precaution is needed. Urgent action is needed to warn parents about the potential dangers of cellphones for their children. The government's ongoing failure to address the international concerns about the safety or otherwise of cellphones phones and EMR (electro-magnetic radiation) from other sources is increasingly concerning. The Ouruhuia AM/FM Radiotower case is back in the High Court in Christchurch on 3 February 2010. The last round of that decision (by Associate Judge Christiansen in November 2008) highlighted a wide range of very serious adverse health effects on nearby residents and their horses, cows and other animals which were attributed to the radiotower. This was despite emissions being within the limits allowed by NZS2772:1 1999 (at least according to Mr Gledhill's monitoring). Many highly qualified experts around the world have raised serious and legitimate concerns founded on their own and accumulated research and evidence. Other governments are increasingly adopting a more precautionary approach and warning their citizens of the risks. The Local Government and Environment Select Committee released a report on 24 November 2009 calling for a review of EMR management in New Zealand and for more expert and community representation on the Interagency Advisory Group. So far as I am aware none of the community experts have yet been invited to assist with this. These matters are serious and urgent. I am happy to assist how I can. Thanks for you interest Sue Grey LLB(Hons), BSc, RSHDipPHI Do Mobile Phones Cure Alzheimer's Disease?
Comments by Andrew Goldsworthy on a widely publicised paper by Arendash and co-workers that suggests that mobile phone radiation may cure Alzheimer's disease. The radiation was not modulated
Unmodulated radiation is less biologically active
Radiation hormesis It is argued that living cells and organisms perceive the damaging effects of the radiation and put themselves into "repair mode". This includes boosting enzymes needed for cellular growth and regeneration and also triggering inflammation to increase the blood supply to the affected region. Provided these measures are successful, there may be no observable adverse effects. However, some of these mechanisms are generic and may also affect other illnesses, so that very weak radiation may have net beneficial effects, even on systems that are not directly affected by it. This may be what we are seeing here; mild inflammation of the brain would increase its blood supply and could stave off the degeneration normally associated with Alzheimer's disease. Amplitude modulated waves can weaken cell membranes and cause illnesses When a carrier wave is modulated in this way, it generates a range of other frequencies on either side of the carrier (called sidebands), which contain the information. Digital transmissions have particularly wide sidebands that encompass many other biologically active frequencies, including those that interfere with the activity of cryptochrome, which some animals use to sense magnetic fields for navigation (Ritz et al. Nature, Vol. 429, 13 May 2004). Cryptochrome also occurs in most animal and plant cells, where it is an essential part of the "body clock" that controls their natural circadian rhythms. It is effects on cryptochrome that probably account for the sleep disturbances experienced by people living near base stations. It may also explain their apparent increased risk of getting cancer since the immune system, which normally disposes of aberrant cells before they become cancerous, is controlled by the body clock. This is to make the most efficient use of limited bodily resources, which are switched from physical activity during the day to the immune system at night. If our natural body rhythms are disrupted or reduced in amplitude by the radiation, it means that at no time can the immune system function at maximum strength and we are therefore more likely to develop cancer.
Andrew Goldsworthy BSc PhD Lecturer in Biology (retired) Imperial College London New Zealand residents are losing their battle with mobile phone start-up 2degrees over the cellphone towers the company are erecting in urban areas. On Thursday a tower in east Auckland went up despite months of protest, and on the North Shore a couple would have welcomed the chance to object, if they had known about it. Richard and Rachel Andrews came home from a three-week holiday to find a 2degrees cellphone tower put up just one metre from their front doorstep. "We just couldn't believe our eyes," says Richard Andrews. "It was just done without any consultation or talking to us at that time at all, we just didn't know it was coming."
When the Andrews were told about the proposed tower, they voiced their concerns and also contacted the North Shore City Council. The only letter the Andrews say they received was from the council back in 2007 telling them that as an affected party they had a right to object to the cellphone tower at resource consent stage. ONE News has has found out that due to a law change, resource consent was not needed - not that anyone told the Andrews. "We have an answerphone, we've got a mailbox - why couldn't they have contacted us? We were only away three weeks," says Richard. 2degrees say the Andrews were not home when they came to tell them about the construction. Residents are taking extraordinary steps to stop 2degrees putting up cellphone towers near their homes. A protest in Auckland's Buckland's Beach earlier this week was so strong police were called in. But the third largest mobile player is winning its war in the suburbs. "How many executives of 2degrees have got these things outside their front gardens?," says Richard. It is a permanent fixture for the Andrews, and a little too close for comfort.
PROTESTERS have been voicing their opposition against a telecommunications company which is installing cellphone masts at three controversial sites. On Monday, about 50 angry residents - many wielding placards - tried to stop contractors for 2degrees removing a lamp-post in Clovelly Road, Bucklands Beach, where a new mast will be fixed. They failed, but people living in the area are furious with the way the company and Manukau City Council dealt with the protests, which police helped to ensure passed without any arrests being made. Monday also saw work start on the installation of masts at Page Point in Mellons Bay and Pigeon Mountain Road in Bucklands Beach. The drama in Clovelly Road started to unfold at about 3pm, when Rowan Hegley, whose home is directly opposite the proposed mast site, refused to remove two vehicles that were blocking access to the site outside his property. Parking enforcement officers from Manukau City Council arrived and informed Mr Hegley that the vehicles would be towed unless he moved them. "These guys are getting heavy," Mr Hegley told the Times. "It's a stand-off." He says residents have been through "all the right channels" in objecting to the masts but have nothing to show for it. "They [2degrees] have been made very aware the residents don't want it there but they continue to go on arrogantly. They don't care." When asked if he was prepared to be arrested, the husband and father-of-seven said: "I don't see getting arrested as being beneficial to what we're doing." Construction workers and a truck with heavy equipment left the scene at about 3pm, eliciting cheers from protesters and calls of "don't come back". But anger and disappointment was in their faces when Mr Hegley's vehicles were towed. "I'm totally gutted," says Mr Hegley, who is the station officer at Howick Fire Station. The towing agency was contacted after he failed to remove the cars within a 10-minute final cut-off period. Mr Hegley will be charged $100 for each vehicle towed. A crowd of onlookers, many Clovelly Road residents, gathered to watch the protest unfold and jeered at the tow-truck driver, security guards and 2degrees workers on site. Placards with slogans such as "2degrees suck" and "Boycott 2degrees" were waved by teenagers. "We don't want you here," one young protester yelled, while others shouted "shame on you, 2degrees". Brian Metcalf, a pensioner who lives on Clovelly Road, offered to chain himself to security gates surrounding the site to stop its construction. "This is an example of a community trying to fight the system," he says. "I wouldn't want this [a mast] in front of my house". After the vehicles were removed, a group of teenagers moved a wooden bench next to the lamp-post and sat down with their placards. More police then arrived to deal with the growing crowd. One officer warned protesters: "Be aware that you need to move, otherwise you will be arrested for breaching the peace." After a short stand-off, protesters walked off-site and were asked to move beyond a line of trees on either side of Mr Hegley's property for safety reasons. He refused on the grounds protesters standing within the boundaries of his property could not be asked to move away from it. He discussed the issue with acting Manukau East police area commander, inspector Jason Hewett, who accepted that the protesters could stay where they were. Fellow protester Fiona Jeffcoat says 2degrees is "an absolute disgrace" and she feels "ashamed to be a New Zealander". "There's no need for this, it's all about money," she says. Construction workers arrived with heavy-duty equipment and started removing the existing concrete lamp-post at about 5.30pm. Security guards were stationed at the site on Monday night and into Tuesday. Mr Hegley says he and his wife Tina are seriously considering selling up and leaving Clovelly Road if the cellphone tower is installed. City councillors Sharon Stewart and David Collings, who were at the protest, expressed their disgust at the construction of the mast sites. "I'm bitterly disappointed it's got to this stage," says Mrs Stewart. "To me, this is just the start. "If people think this [protest] is all that's going to be happening, they've got another thing coming. They put up a good fight ? you can see the public support." Mr Collings says: "People are away, so they aren't really mobilised. It aggrieves me because we were told that it [a council decision on sites] was urgent." He was pleased to see residents come together to fight for what they believe in. "It's horrible this is happening but it's good the community is together. It's not over yet. It will never be over. Related Links
By MATT BOWEN - Eastern Courier Protesting residents were threatened with arrest and forced to make way for a controversial cell tower at Bucklands Beach this week. Telecommunications company 2degrees abandoned work late last year on two contentious residential sites at 145 Clovelly and 25 Pigeon Mountain roads. But on Monday the gloves were off. The act was carried out with military precision. Rowan Hegley, who lives at 145 Clovelly Rd with his wife and five children, had two vehicles parked on the verge making work impossible. But he had a feeling the new mobile company was about to get "heavy handed" during the holiday period. Private security guards and fencing contractors arrived at 2pm to secure the work site, which was given approval by the Manukau City Council in September. Two policeman tried to ease the tension as the vocal crowd grew. "I was told that if I refused to move they would arrest me," Mr Hegley said. Council parking wardens delivered an ultimatum to Mr Hegley at 4pm - either move your vehicles or have them towed at your expense. Both vehicles were soon taken away amid shouts of "shame on you 2degrees". The police presence increased when reinforcements arrived as the two metre wire fence closed in around the remaining, mostly teenage, protesters. Their claims of peaceful protest received a stern response from police: "You are going to have to move or be arrested for breaching the peace." Two councillors were on hand to support their constituents: Howick's Sharon Stewart and Pakuranga's David Collings. "The fact that they have to do this says they're having to fight the community," Mr Collings said. "At council meetings we talk a lot about community but this action shows how shallow that is -it's obvious the community doesn't want this. "They had to work it out as a logistical exercise. If the community was happy about it they Mrs Stewart said she is "bitterly disappointed". "These people have done nothing wrong. They buy a beautiful home thinking it's setting them up for the good life - next thing they're going to have this monster outside their property." Mr Hegley's family and neighbouring residents fear a significant drop in property values and health worries about electromagnetic radiation. "Who's going to compensate us for the drop in property value?," Mr Hegley said. "Is Manukau mayor Len Brown going to? Or 2degrees? "It stinks. There's no way that someone like Len Brown should be running a supercity - as ratepayers we've been let down. "I think 2degrees are commercially arrogant because they know how residents feel. "It's a sad world when they have the law on their side but we have human rights on ours," he said. Workmen were back on site yesterday.
Wednesday, 13 January 2010 THE police planned operations in anticipation of protest action against telco 2degrees' installation of cellphone masts. For tactical reasons, they will not tell the Times how many officers were made available for duty at 145 Clovelly Road and 25 Pigeon Mountain Road, Bucklands Beach, and outside 1,3 and 5 Page Point, Mellons Bay, on Monday and Tuesday. Inspector Dave Simpson, of Counties Manukau Police, says: "Police were available to attend should the need arise." They were deployed at Clovelly Road in a stand-by capacity. "It was a planned operation in anticipation of protest action," he says. While no arrests were made, he says the consequences of breaking the law were outlined to protesters. Mr Simpson says the police response was appropriate to uphold the law and keep the peace without arrests being made. "This was seen as a positive result which involved some negotiation." Asked whether the police would mount similar actions at future protests, Mr Simpson says they have a general duty to uphold the law and keep the peace. "People have a right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. "But the public can be assured that unlawful action or a breach of the peace is likely to result in police intervention." Taxpayers will foot the bill for this week's operation. Telco 'called in security' THE security and police alerts for this week's protests were arranged by 2degrees, and Manukau City had no involvement, says the council's economic director Rick Walden. "This is their business. They want to put the masts up and they have the necessary permits to do that. They are going about their lawful business and they've elected to contact the police and Armourguard. "The council has a limited impact on their process,which is set by central government. Our part in this is small.
Wednesday, 13 January 2010 By JACKIE RUSSELL ANGRY protesters have chained themselves to security fences in a bid to prevent cellphone masts being installed at controversial sites. Residents have been battling to stop 2degrees putting in new equipment at Clovelly Road and Pigeon Mountain Road in Bucklands Beach, and at Page Point in Mellons Bay, for about a year. But their protests reached new heights yesterday when some people attached themselves to fences at Clovelly Road and Page Point. Four people in Clovelly Road chained themselves up to try to stop the contractors, while one Page Point resident took the same action. All of them eventually agreed to unlock the padlocks to avoid being arrested by the police. About seven police vehicles and a senior officer attended Clovelly Road on Tuesday, which had also been the scene of protests on Monday. Karen Pilbrow, a member of the National Environmental Society (NES) which has campaigned against cellphone masts being built near people's homes, was one of those who chained herself to the fence. A cellphone mast was put up in her street ? Elimar Drive in Farm Cove ? overnight, when residents had no idea what was going on. "We have done everything in our power for the past seven months to try to reason with people, to get different sites, to negotiate with different parties, but they refuse to listen," Ms Pilbrow told the Times. "I wish someone would say New Zealand is the only country in the civilised world that would do this to a family. "Three sites [in East Manukau] were started simultaneously, so it stretched everyone's resources, and it's a holiday time when most people are away." The Clovelly Road site is in front of Rowan Hegley's home. He first learned the work was going ahead when security guards arrived outside his property on Monday afternoon. "I was gutted. We've gone through all the right channels and even appealed to 2degrees' compassion for people not to do this." Before the site was designated for a cellphone mast, Mr Hegley paid to have plans drawn up and applied for council consent to extend his home with more bedrooms upstairs. They would be close to the mast, so he is not going ahead with the plans. "I want compensation for that and the devaluation I'm going to suffer on my property," he says. Mr Hegley supplied sun block and drinks to the protesters who chained themselves to the construction site. "These towers are just the thin edge of the wedge," he says. "More and more people are being affected by these towers. We're not stopping here, we will carry on lobbying." At Page Point in Mellons Bay, neighbours and NES members rallied around Geraldine Kasper when she chained herself to the construction site. They also pushed the fence against the arm of the digger bringing work to a halt. Mrs Kasper and her husband Greg were out of town on Monday night when they heard a rumour their long protest was lost, and a mast was going to be installed in the heritage area where they live. The couple returned home early on Tuesday and by 9.15am Mrs Kasper was locked to the fence. A peaceful but resolute crowd of about 30 people joined her cause. "These [masts] are all secret. It's so clandestine, you would believe it," says Mr Kasper. By 10.15pm, 2degrees' representatives had arrived at the scene. They were followed soon after by a police officer. The officer negotiated with Mrs Kasper and her colleagues, advising her that the police could cut her chain with a bolt-cutter and arrest her for breaching the peace if she did not voluntarily remove herself. The officer left the scene for a few minutes, giving Mrs Kasper the opportunity to unlock her chain. He then returned with two more officers, one carrying large bolt-cutters and Mr Kasper reluctantly unlocked his wife. "I was at my wits' end and what more could we do," says Mrs Kasper. "Nobody is listening. The council has wiped us, they hide behind the law and we felt we had to do something extreme. "We are extremely disappointed and disheartened. We have to really think about what we do next." Richard and Vanessa Elliott live with their three school-age children at the property most affected by the cellphone tower. Mrs Elliott pleaded with 2degrees' representative Ron Bush to reconsider the mast site, while supportive neighbours shouted comments. Mr Bush did not comment. Mr Elliott says they bought their home two years ago for their children and the school zones. He spent 30 minutes talking to Jason Britten, of 2degrees, on Monday. Mr Elliott says Mr Britten did not inform him that work was starting on the cellphone tower the next day but it should be before the end of February. "We feel absolutely gutted, they don't care," says Mrs Elliott. "You feel really hopeless and helpless. It's metres away from where our children sleep and they've never asked permission." They were advised to take 2degrees to court after the mast is installed, but they say they don't have the money for a legal battle. Mr Elliott was told the mast wouldn't affect their property value but he believes it will. "They can say that in commercial areas it won't make a difference but of course it does in these areas," he says. "People here are really fussy and they're spending a lot of money and then they see a great big dirty thing sticking up
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By SARAH CODDINGTON - North Shore Times The Andrews family came home from a trip to Australia to find a cellphone tower outside their Torbay property. Richard Andrews wrote a letter to cellphone company 2degrees and the North Shore City Council when they were informed of the proposal to put in a tower four metres from their property in 2007. Mr Andrews says the council responded to the letter saying the phone company had to apply for environmental consent before the tower was established. He says the letter said residents would be notified if the tower went ahead. Council senior adviser, planning, Karen Jobert says they could not find a record of that letter to Mr Andrews. Ms Jobert says the council decided not to advise residents because the phone tower's cabinet was only 9cm higher than the national environmental regulations that were enforced by the Environmental Ministry in October 2008. She says because it was a small height difference the council proceeded with the 2degrees application without public consent. The actual phone tower was within the ministry's regulations, she says. 2degrees spokeswoman Bryony Hilless says the company tried to contact the Andrews family about the tower but they were on holiday. She was unable to comment further. In a recent North Shore Times article about a 2degrees tower, Ms Hilless said whenever possible the company tried to choose a location with the least impact on the local community and environment. But Mr Andrews' wife Rachel says they can see it right outside the window. "It doesn't make sense. There is a hill with open space just up the road, it could have been put there. "We already have a phone tower and we don't need another one," she says. Mr Andrews rang the phone company who came to the house to discuss the 2degrees tower and explain the situation. "He said the council had no choice in the matter of where the tower was put. I'm not sure how true that is," says Mr Andrews. The company 2degrees has since agreed to put a fence in front of the tower and has planted vines that will grow to hide it. Mr Andrews says he is angry the value of their property has gone down and there is nothing they can do about the situation. 11/01/2010 at 20:45:24  2degrees succeeded today in removing the lamp posts in Page Point, Clovelly Road and Pigeon Mountain Rd in advance of installing their towers. As you can see from the ridiculous police presence at Clovelly Road , there was a lot of determination to get things moving. Threats to arrest people sitting on the site worked and 2degrees sadly achieved their aim. Cordons have been used and Armourguard will be staying during the installation. A sad day for our community ... Fiona 07/01/2010 at 21:24:28
DAMIEN MURPHY January 4, 2010
A move by legislators in the US state of Maine to require brain-cancer warnings on mobile phones is expected to trigger a worldwide response, the Australian industry has said. A Democrat state representative, Andrea Boland, wants new mobile phones to carry health warnings like those on cigarettes and is pushing ahead with the legislation despite a lack of scientific consensus. The Australian industry expects a wave of concern when the legislation is debated this month. Ms Boland said she understood that radiation from mobile phones increased the risk of brain cancer, especially for those under 18, and her opinion was reinforced by a 2006 study by the Swedish National Institute for Working Life showing a correlation between brain tumours and heavy mobile phone use. "The main thing is that the warning labels get on there, and when people go to purchase something they have a heads-up that they need to really think about it," Ms Boland said. "This is a big important industry, and it's a small modification to assure people that they should handle them properly." Randal Markey, the manager of communications for the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association, said it was understandable that people would have concerns about mobile phones because of their experience with health controversies such as tobacco and asbestos. "We do not expect everyone to accept our assurances about mobile phone safety," he said. "Our industry relies on the expert opinion of international health agencies for an overall assessment of health and safety issues. "There is no established evidence that radio frequency exposure within internationally accepted safety limits causes adverse health effects." The World Health Organisation's Interphone study, a decade-long investigation into the health implications of mobile phone use, remains unpublished. In 2005 WHO said studies had found "no convincing evidence of an increased cancer risk" from mobile phones or their towers. Mr Markey said if people were concerned, there were practical steps that could reduce exposure including using a hands-free kit or loudspeaker, text messages and limiting the length or number of calls. In Australia there are more than 22 million mobile phones. In the 11 months until November, more than 8.35 million handsets were brought into Australia - down slightly on 2007's record 9.3 million - and although some were slated for distribution around the Pacific, most were for sale here. This website is a single issue community site dedicated to reflecting the current concerns of the people in the area of Corder Park, Nelson. The content is under constant review and is changed and updated regularly by volunteers. Thank you for visiting and please check back soon for the latest reports. |
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