{"id":12763,"date":"2018-03-19T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=12763"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:46:51","slug":"5g-threat-to-trees-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=12763","title":{"rendered":"5G threat to Trees in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/no5Guk.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12769\" src=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/no5Guk.png\" alt=\"no5Guk\" width=\"780\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/no5Guk.png 780w, https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/no5Guk-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Group : Stop 5G UK<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cathy Dowd<\/div>\n<p><strong>5,500 trees cut down<\/strong>\u00a0in Sheffield to make way for new 5G Mobile Phone network.<\/p>\n<div>Chainsaw men protected by Police from protesters. I saw one Video of a tree being<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>hauled away with a protester wrapped around it. The trees had originally been planted to commemorate war heroes.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>5G TREE THREAT<\/h2>\n<section>\n<h2>New 5G phone system could face reception problems from trees with too many LEAVES<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p>The wrong kind of rain or councils putting up big Christmas displays could also wreck reception<\/p>\n<div>By David Wooding, Sunday Political Editor<\/div>\n<div>18th March 2018,\u00a01:09 am \u00a0Updated: 18th March 2018,\u00a01:09 am<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/5838497\/5g-phone-system-reception-problems-trees\/\">https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/5838497\/5g-phone-system-reception-problems-trees\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The<strong>\u00a0wrong kind of rain<\/strong>\u00a0or councils putting up big Christmas displays could also wreck reception.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #232327; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><em>The superfast network, funded by \u00a3160million of taxpayers\u2019 cash, is due in two years.<\/em><em>A shock Government report into its launch says there are too many trees with lots of foliage.<\/em><em>While rail services suffer from leaves on the line from autumn, the phone network faces problems from April to October \u2014 when trees are in full bloom.<\/em><em>The rain menace depends on its location and intensity \u201cacross the range of droplet sizes\u201d, adds\u00a0 the 142-page report.<\/em><em>Existing signals come from a small number of big antennas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>5G will need 350,000 dotted at six-mile intervals. Rural areas will need 80ft masts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tory MP Grant Shapps said: \u201cThe Government needs a solution at ultrafast speed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/city-secretly-planned-to-chop-down-half-its-trees-jd5dwd9ft\">https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/city-secretly-planned-to-chop-down-half-its-trees-jd5dwd9ft<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>The city of Sheffield planned to fell almost half the trees lining its streets, it has admitted after losing a battle to keep documents secret.\u00a0The revelation has injected new vigour into a campaign that has spent six fraught years fighting a project to replace mature trees, including cherries, lime trees and one of the country\u2019s few remaining venerable elm trees, with saplings as part of a \u00a32.2 billion plan to upgrade roads and pavements.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?page_id=12096\">Read more RF and Plants<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group : Stop 5G UK Cathy Dowd 5,500 trees cut down\u00a0in Sheffield to make way for new 5G Mobile Phone network. Chainsaw men protected by Police from protesters. I saw one Video of a tree being hauled away with a protester wrapped around it. The trees had originally been planted to commemorate war heroes. 5G [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346,357,127,28,312,310,492,59,325,353,1026,500,326,1027,4],"tags":[632,629,552,644],"class_list":["post-12763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5g","category-5g-antenna","category-antenna","category-cell-tower","category-england","category-europe","category-gnode","category-government","category-microcell","category-newspaper","category-plants","category-rollout","category-small-cells","category-trees","category-wireless_devices","tag-5g","tag-england","tag-tree","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12763"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20174,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions\/20174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}