I read in The NEWS of mother-to-be, Genelle Conn, who addressed the Regional District of Nanaimo with her concerns about having Telus install a cell-phone tower as close as 200 meters from her home in a French Creek subdivision.
She is rightly concerned about health effects of from radio frequency energy that will be transmitted. Health Canada, quoting their own standards in Safety Code 6, say there are no health effects at certain levels. Health Canada, in setting their standards, have ignored a long list of studies that say otherwise.
People with electrohypersensitivity are proof to that. Health Canada has simply ignored those studies. Many countries have introduced much more stringent safety guidelines and more information about health effects is coming out daily. Conn also says she was not consulted about locating a cell tower so close to her home. Here in Golden, I have tried repeatedly to find out what the plan is for cell towers in our town. Liz Sauve sent out a media release in May, 2014, announcing that Telus was going to invest $1 million in Golden to “expand and enhance wireless service.”
Sauve (and others at Telus) have not answered my several requests for information on their plans, nor have I been able to track down anyone at Telus who will give me the information. Our own town council was not given any information and our previous mayor had suggested I ask Telus. I can easily see how people are not being consulted.
Just as another thought, the use of wireless technology can be compared to second-hand smoke. The difference, is that we can avoid the health hazards of second-hand smoke if we don’t allow it in our homes, but we cannot avoid the electromagnetic radiation from wireless technology when it is allowed to invade the privacy of our homes.
Surely there must be another location, at least 500 meters away from homes, where a cell tower could be located. Please reconsider your decision.
Inge ClappertonGolden
