Forest Row, East Sussex - residents say 'No' to radiation.

• By: M R Wingrove
• On: 22/06/2009 15:04:46
• In: Research
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On 6 May group members met with representatives from T- mobile. Also present was Dr Klinghardt, an international lecturer on the effects of electromagnetic radiation (look under ‘talks and events’ for details of his talk on 6th July at Forest Row Village Hall). T-mobile said the installation would definitely go ahead and they would keep us informed as to when. The mobile phone company has agreed to finance an independent survey to measure the radiation levels around Forest Row before installation. This survey will be able to tell us what radiation levels we are exposed to and from which sources. The monitoring company will come back after installation to measure the change. We pointed out that Forest Row is a special place where people come because it has less of the mainstream and more of the natural and alternative aspects to life. And we want to protect that. The response was that it will probably not be long before other networks will want to increase their coverage.

Following the success of a motion put before Wealden, the Council is now calling on the Government to commission more research into the effects of third generation (3G) mobile phone radiation. See our resources section for Wealden District Council’s press release on this.

Some more on the hazards of mobile phone mast technology:

The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for a review of the legal safety limits on this technology.

Italy, Belgium and other EU countries actually enforce far lower radiation levels than are acceptable here.

4 February 2009, a French Court of Appeal awarded financial compensation to residents living in the vicinity of a 3G mobile phone mast stating it was a health risk and “exceptional nuisance”.

See the 2007 report recommendations of eminent scientists - 2,000 radiation studies - www.bioinitiative.org