{"id":18070,"date":"2019-05-24T01:13:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T08:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=18070"},"modified":"2020-09-24T01:18:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T08:18:22","slug":"protesters-push-public-notification-on-harms-of-cell-tower-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=18070","title":{"rendered":"Protesters push public notification on harms of cell tower radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shuswap residents gather for 5G Day of Action in downtown Salmon Arm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

LACHLAN LABERE \u00a0 May. 15, 2019 4:00 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Their voices were loud, their signal clear: the risks associated with cell towers cannot be ignored any longer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time to listen to science and stop listening to the telecom industry which is pushing\u2026 to put these dangerous technologies around us for the sake of profit,\u201d said Patricia White, a co-ordinator behind Salmon Arm\u2019s 5G Day of Action, one of similar rallies held on Wednesday, May 15 across Canada and the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The intent of the rallies was to raise awareness of the radiation associated with cellular technologies, and to call on governments to suspend deployment of a more powerful 5G (fifth generation) cellular network in residential neighbourhoods until exposure can be proven safe.<\/span><\/p>\n

White and others at the rally at Ross Street Plaza stressed scientific studies already show exposure to existing levels of radio frequency radiation from cell towers to be problem, and they don\u2019t want to see the addition of cellular antenna in the downtown as planned by Rogers Wireless.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more: No objections to proposed cellular antennae<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n

Read more: Letter: Residents to rally over cell tower concerns<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n

Read more: Letter: Examining the untested waters of 5G wireless technology<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n

\u201cWe certainly don\u2019t need it, they\u2019re trying to tell us that we need it for our convenience but we don\u2019t need it,\u201d said White. \u201cWhat we have right now is ample and its already harming us. The last thing we need is more of this cellular technology.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Speeches at the plaza stage were followed by a march through town, with Dr. Ross Anderson stopping to measure the level of electromagnetic radiation at the corner of Alexander Street and Hudson Avenue.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in the vicinity of 200 (microwatts) \u2013 200 is 20 times the safe level that science has established,\u201d said Anderson.<\/span><\/p>\n

White read from a petition to the City of Salmon Arm and the Columbia Shuswap Regional District, to halt the deployment of all wireless devices planned for the area, adding that until the safety of the technology has been proven by non-industry funded scientists, \u201d continuing with the plan to bring more of these devices into our communities is not acceptable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shuswap residents gather for 5G Day of Action in downtown Salmon Arm LACHLAN LABERE \u00a0 May. 15, 2019 4:00 p.m.   Their voices were loud, their signal clear: the risks associated with cell towers cannot be ignored any longer. \u201cIt\u2019s time to listen to science and stop listening to the telecom industry which is pushing\u2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346,357,793,127,17,103,434,247,326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5g","category-5g-antenna","category-60ghz","category-antenna","category-bc","category-canada","category-millimeter-wave","category-salmon-arm","category-small-cells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18070","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=18070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18074,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18070\/revisions\/18074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}