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Mobile Phone Masts Trigger Panic in Bristol, England
August 08, 2007 at 12:02 PM
Cancer News
She said: "The masts are bound to be doing something. I get terrible headaches and I've started suffering from Meniere's disease, where I lose my balance. I'm worried about the children on the estate as there are so many of them now."
Both masts were erected in 1994. South Gloucestershire Council served a notice asking for them to be removed when the ten-year contract expired three years ago.
But because current guidelines say there is no risk from radiation the council does not have a legal right to force their removal.
After a long legal battle Orange has submitted a planning application to put the mast on top of a shopping precinct in a street near homes, a primary school and a public library.
Jeanette McCormack, 69, who has led a campaign against the mast, said a petition against the new location had gathered more than 200 names.
She added: "People of all ages who live and work near the mast will be exposed to the radiation and so there's a lot of anger about it."
World Health Organization guidelines have dismissed the risks of masts despite other evidence which has found they are harmful.
A spokesman for Orange said the company takes health and safety very seriously.
He added that the company was satisfied its mobile phone base stations do not present a health risk.
Vodafone is working on a new long term lease from South Gloucestershire Council. A spokesman said the company took residents' concerns "extremely seriously" and would continue to work with them and the council to provide reassurance.
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08/09/2007
The only people who have declared mobile phone masts safe are the mobile phone industry and their loyal supporters. There are hundreds of peer reviewed published studies that demonstrate how radiation from wifi, mobile phones, masts etc causes ill health and cancer. The mobile phone industry would have us believe that all the studies that show these hundreds of positive results did not exist or were somehow irrelevant while all the studies (mostly funded by the mobile phone industry) that show negative results were the only ones worth noting. But this is exactly what the asbestos and tobacco industries did in the last century to safeguard their profits at the expense of a percentage of the population.
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