Variety of Information on Wireless Communications Facilities and
Technologies
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Health Effects on Humans
This is a summary of information, including links, relating to the
health-effects, potential and measured, on living organisms caused
by the types of RF radiation emitted by WCF such as cellular telephone
systems.
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World Health Organization International
EMF Report
...some of this research has suggested that exposure to electromagnetic fields
(EMF) may produce a broad range of health effects such as cancer, changes in
behaviour, memory loss, Parkinsons and Alzheimer's diseases.
While insufficient research has been conducted to substantiate these effects,
sufficient concerns and perceptions of risks have been raised that there is an
urgent need for an accelerated programme to provide scientific consensus and
clarification of these issues.
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Cell Tower Static
In "Cell Tower Static," Cathy Bergman-Venezia discusses the intense debate
over the safe siting of cellular telephone transmission facilities.
The communications industry is taking no prisoners in their pursuit
of the advancement of their technology, ...
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Towerkill.com
This excellent site highlights the hazard to birds posed by towers.
It also provides a state-by-state map depicting the distribution of
existing towers and their heights.
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PCS is Changing Wireless: It May Become a Battleground
This document discusses the question "Why is wireless an issue?" and
states that
Consultants cannot serve carriers and local governments at the same time
... too much is riding on their advice.
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Medina, WA effectively utilized two, six-month moratoria on WCF permitting
and construction. This use of a WCF moratorium was also upheld
in a court of law, as this Wired News story describes.
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Families for Appropriate Cell Tower
Siting... a reference guide to assist in the distribution of information
concerning communication/cell towers, cell phones. Information concerning the
health effects, zoning debates, school issues, legal issues, state, national,
and local issues.
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Alternatives to Towers!
New and imposing tower structures are not necessary in many cases to permit
adequate deployment of wireless communications services. This
company's product offerings call into question the legitimacy of proposals
stating that towers are required.
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Telecomm Law and
Policy ResourcesA legal site whose pages include the landmark
Telecommunications Act of 1996, communications law and policy links,
Internet regulation analysis and a variety of briefs and other documents.
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Separation of at least five times tower height
If guy-wired tower structures are employed, this document demonstrates why a
separation of at least five times the tower's height from any
adjoining property line or public roadway is required to ensure
public health, safety, and general welfare in the presence of guy-wired WCF.
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The convenience of wireless communication drives a big industry. The
advertising highlights all the benefits, but never talks about the hazards or adverse effects.
When unspecified technical hazards are cited to prevent such towers
from being built, people are labeled paranoid and ridiculed. However, there are real hazards, one from mechanical failure of the tower,
the other from radiation in the microwave frequency range.
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Landmark Virginia Beach, VA caseThis ruling by the United States Court
of Appeals
for the Fourth Circuit, upheld the ruling that towers may be
denied based solely on citizens' complaints.
Several proposed WCF were denied because they are incompatible with the
residential character of the neighborhood. The Court's judgment
states that these denials neither prohibited the provision of wireless
services, nor discriminated among providers and placed the burden of proof
on the service providers to demonstrate that the zoning authority
discriminated unreasonably.
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Biological Effects of Radiofrequency and Microwave RadiationIdentifies an amazing variety of
significant human health effects, most of which are only now being researched.
It also identifies problems with extrapolation of old data to present-day
conditions, especially those experienced by human beings in the presence
of wireless communications equipment.
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Will safety guidelines
soon include accumulated exposure limits?This document presents evidence
demonstrating the need for inclusion of accumulated exposure limits
as part of EMF Exposure Safety Guidelines. Typically only limited-duration,
or peak, wireless emissions exposure limits are specified.
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Meeting the Challenges of Zoning in The Information Age: Planning for Wireless
Communications Facilities
Tim Thompson's Ball State University thesis
serves as an aid to local government officials by providing a model ordinance
dealing specifically with wireless communications facilities.
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Plain Wireless
The FCC and
the wireless industry have collaborated on a
campaign to make many more wireless
communications services available to the general
public. But these services will depend on local
government accepting many more "towers" in the
locations where industry wants them. So far, cities
and counties have resisted industry's rapid
deployment tactics.
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Personal experience and a compendium of links created by a mother
of three children. Relates an effort to block siting of a WCF
at a school and also presents a number of useful links.
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Cellular Tower Coalition
This is an exellent site with lots of links to information about
communication towers.
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Telecommunications Information
This site provided by Washington
State has lots of links and information about towers.
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FCC Frequently Asked
Questions regarding Cellular Regulations This document is published by
the Federal Communications Commission to provide answers to many common
questions regarding Federal regulation of Wireless Communications.
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Federal Court
Ruling Upholds Denial of Contested AT&T SiteZbigniew Brezenski won't have
a tower in his
backyard, at least not anytime soon. Former National Security Adviser
Brezenski and former Attorney General Ed Meese were among several influential
locals who fought a plan for a 100-foot monopole on property near their homes
in upscale McLean, Va. When Fairfax County, Va., ruled in favor of the locals
in September 1997, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. took the county to federal
court. Federal district court ruled against AT&T.
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Vermont: Mugged and Unplugged
While industry tells us how safe it is, and experts investigate
and debate the potential effects of this burgeoning technology,
citizens are expressing increased concern over the anomalies
generally associated with communications systems and their siting.
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Can non ionizing radiation induce cancer?
At present, despite many epidemiological and laboratory studies, the
EMF-cancer connection remains controversial. Extremely low frequency fields
(ELF) and radiofrequency fields (RF) are of particular
importance. This review paper on the EMF-cancer association will therefore be
estricted to these types of electromagnetic field.
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Discussion on WCF siting
This document is in MSWord format.
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Technologies for Political Control
This is a fascinating, and somewhat disturbing, examination of the technologies
used for control and restraint of human populations by agencies in pursuit
of political (and other) purposes.
This study was delivered to the European Parliament by the Directorate General
for Research on January 8, 1998. Exposes the dark side of technology
and demonstrates many issues that citizens need to deal with before it is
too late.
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