EMR Health Alliance of BC

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• #1 by Virginia Smith on October 12, 2011 - 12:00 pm

  

  As someone who cannot use a microwave, a cellphone, or wifi because of the dizziness that they cause, I refuse to have an unnecessary Smart meter installed on my house. Furthermore, there have been no studies done on the effect of these meters on bees, other insects, and birds. To say that the program cannot be stopped is ridiculous. It can be switched to a user-choice system immediately. The privacy issue also includes the possibility of BC Hydro selling the information it gains to various producers of products suitable to the lifestyles of the individual home owners. The rush to install these meters without sufficient investigation and without a democratic process is similar to the rush to replace incandescent light bulbs with outrageously expensive and very dangerous (if dropped) florescent tubes. There is no science out there to justify either. Lastly, the outrageous amount of money being spent on this useless and unnecessary venture could be spent saving lives in our crumbling health system.

• #2 by LP on October 14, 2011 - 1:39 pm

  

  This is the document which was the impetus for the W.H.O. re-classification of cell phones:

  The Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly’s May 6, 2011 Doc. 12608, entitled “The Potential Dangers of Electromagnetic Fields and their effect on the environment”. Found by going to this site:
  http://www.assembly.coe.int
  and typing 12608 into the search bar.

  Here you will find there have been many studies which prove the dangers of these fields.

  This document carries so much more weight than merely saying “possible carcinogen”, particularly, point #60. verifies “electro-sensitive” people.

  Here is the Summary copied directly from the text:

  “The potential health effects of the very low frequency of electromagnetic fields surrounding power lines and electrical devices are the subject of ongoing research and a significant amount of public debate. While electrical and electromagnetic fields in certain frequency bands have fully beneficial effects which are applied in medicine, other non-ionising frequencies, be they sourced from extremely low frequencies, power lines or certain high frequency waves used in the fields of radar, telecommunications and mobile telephony, appear to have more or less potentially harmful, non-thermal, biological effects on plants, insects and animals, as well as the human body when exposed to levels that are below the official threshold values.
  One must respect the precautionary principle and revise the current threshold values; waiting for high levels of scientific and clinical proof can lead to very high health and economic costs, as was the case in the past with asbestos, leaded petrol and tobacco.”

  I know we can win this thing – together!!!

• #3 by Alan Jensen on October 17, 2011 - 3:48 pm

  

  I can’t use a cell phone without getting a headache. We don’t have a microwave in our home or any wireless devices. I don’t want a wireless meter on our home. Wireless should be a choice. Like tobacco and asbestos, I believe cell phones and wireless technology will be bad news in the future.

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