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Some Coastal Towns Need Persuading To Embrace Wave Energy

Posted by smeddum on October 7, 2008

“OSU’s Boehlert also wonders whether underwater noise or electromagnetic fields will alter the ability of fish to navigate and find food.”

Some Coastal Towns Need Persuading To Embrace Wave Energy
BY TOM BANSE
Coos Bay, OR October 7, 2008 5:22 a.m. OPB News

NEWPORT, Ore. – R&D engineers rig a wave energy buoy during sea trials earlier this September.
Harnessing the power of ocean waves to make electricity is all the rage among Northwest politicians and conservationists. Oregon State University and the University of Washington just got a big grant to work on wave and tidal energy. Read the rest of this entry »

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No probe on cancer scare garda mast

Posted by seumasach on October 3, 2008

 

Kevin Doyle

Herald

Friday October 03 2008

GARDAI have not carried out any investigation into a possible link between a radio mast erected on a Dublin station and the high instances of cancer in the immediate area.

Locals living near Ronans-town Garda Station were under the impression that senior gardai had ordered an inquiry into potential links between the masts and the fact that nine officers based there have suffered brain cancer.

But the Herald has learned that no such investigation has taken place.

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European Parliament Recommends Stricter Safety Limits for Cell Phones

Posted by seumasach on September 21, 2008

ALBANY, NY–(Marketwire – September 18, 2008) – University at Albany, Institute for Health and the Environment – The European Parliament has voted 522 to 16 to recommend tighter safety standards for cell phones. In light of the growing body of scientific evidence implicating cell phone use with brain tumors, the Parliament says, “The limits on exposure to electromagnetic fields [EMFs] which have been set for the general public are obsolete.”

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Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh

Posted by seumasach on September 21, 2008

 

THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is http://www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity.

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Mobile phone use ‘raises children’s risk of brain cancer fivefold’

Posted by smeddum on September 21, 2008

Mobile phone use ‘raises children’s risk of brain cancer fivefold’
Alarming new research from Sweden on the effects of radiation raises fears that today’s youngsters face an epidemic of the disease in later life
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Sunday, 21 September 2008

Independent.co.uk
Children and teenagers are five times more likely to get brain cancer if they use mobile phones, startling new research indicates.

The study, experts say, raises fears that today’s young people may suffer an “epidemic” of the disease in later life. At least nine out of 10 British 16-year-olds have their own handset, as do more than 40 per cent of primary schoolchildren. Read the rest of this entry »

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Complaint Filed Over Health Effects of French Mobile Antenna

Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2008

 

Peter Sayer, IDG News Service

PC world

19th September

A French mobile phone company could face criminal charges for “administration of a harmful substance,” following a complaint by a family living near one of its base station transmitters.

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Is Wi-Fi Putting Our Children In Danger?

Posted by seumasach on September 17, 2008

 

“Although other countries – including Israel and Italy – are adopting lower exposure limits, the HPA says there is still insufficient evidence to issue separate guidelines for children.”

How much evidence is sufficient for the HPA to take measures to protect children?

Daily Express

Tuesday September 16,2008

WITH wireless internet and mobile phones now in constant use in our schools and homes, TESSA THOMAS asks if youngsters are being exposed to hazardously high levels of radiation.

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Allergy to modern gadgets is ‘posing health risk to millions’

Posted by seumasach on September 11, 2008

Lisa Adams

Daily Record

8th September, 2008

IT’S called an allergy to modern life and half of Scots in the next 10 years could be at risk from this crippling illness, according to scientific research.

Victims of the condition, which is triggered by electromagnetic waves from mobile phones, power lines, microwaves and computers, suffer headaches, crushing chest pains, nose bleeds and a loss of feeling in arms and legs.

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Mid-term review of the European Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010

Posted by seumasach on September 9, 2008

We are reposting this seemingly more complete version of the relevant resolutions


Texts adopted by European Parliament

Thursday, 4 September 2008 – Brussel
Mid-term review of the European Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-201
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– Resolution (extract) –

21.  Is greatly concerned at the Bio-Initiative international report(8) concerning electromagnetic fields, which summarises over 1500 studies on that topic and which points in its conclusions to the health risks posed by emissions from mobile-telephony devices such as mobile telephones, UMTS, Wifi, Wimax and Bluetooth, and also DECT landline telephones;

22.  Notes that the limits on exposure to electromagnetic fields which have been set for the general public are obsolete, since they have not been adjusted in the wake of Council Recommendation 1999/519/EC of 12 July 1999 on the limitation of exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields (0Hz to 30 GHz)(9) , obviously take no account of developments in information and communication technologies, of the recommendations issued by the European Environment Agency or of the stricter emission standards adopted, for example, by Belgium, Italy and Austria, and do not address the issue of vulnerable groups, such as pregnant women, newborn babies and children;

23.   Calls, consequently, upon the Council to amend its Recommendation 1999/519/EC in order to take into account the Member States’ best practices and thus to set stricter exposure limits for all equipment which emits electromagnetic waves in the frequencies between 0.1 MHz and 300 GHz;

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Electronic smog ‘is disrupting nature on a massive scale’

Posted by smeddum on September 7, 2008

As I have said before the USDA has given no details on its experiments, and that in itself leaves its scupper of the influence of emf on bees open to question. CCD has been described as a conglomerate of everything that attacks bees, and it is not clear, and indeed not defined, what parameters and what places these experiments were conducted.
The Independent then comes up with a so-called expert on sparrows who does not address the issue at all as though magnetite did not exist in sparrows 

New study blames mobile phone masts and power lines for collapse of bee colonies and decline in sparrows

By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Independent
Sunday, 7 September 2008

AP
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Mid-term review of the European Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010

Posted by seumasach on September 4, 2008

“MEPs recommend that, in awarding individual European Union support, the Commission bear in mind its impact on the quality of indoor air, exposure to electromagnetic radiation and the health of particularly vulnerable sections of the population”

“They[MEPs] are greatly concerned at the Bio-Initiative international report on electromagnetic fields, which highlights the health risks posed by emissions from mobile-telephony devices such as mobile telephones, UMTS, Wifi, Wimax and Bluetooth, and also DECT landline telephones. It notes that the limits on exposure to electromagnetic fields which have been set for the general public are obsolete.”

Mobilfunk

In adopting an own-initiative report on the mid-term review of the European Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010, the European Parliament acknowledges the efforts made by the Commission since the action plan was launched in 2004. It considers, however, that such an action plan is bound to fail at least in part, since it is designed solely to accompany existing Community policies. The report was adopted with 522 votes in favour and 16 against.

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