Tower activists urge MPs to change law
4:00AM Friday September 12, 2008
By Patrick Gower
Residents worry about the effects of electromagnetic fields close to their homes. Photo / Paul Estcourt
Urgent law change is required to stop cellphone companies forcing towers upon communities wherever and whenever they want, MPs were told yesterday.
Sue Grey, of Ban the Towers, told the select committee considering the group's 3100-signature petition of eight neighbourhoods with unwanted celltowers that often "only find out about them when workmen are climbing on the roof".
Residents of Waiheke Island's Surfdale Beach found out about a Vodafone tower only when a woman recovering from breast cancer asked workers in "unmarked white vans" what they were doing.
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By Patrick Gower
Residents worry about the effects of electromagnetic fields close to their homes. Photo / Paul Estcourt
Urgent law change is required to stop cellphone companies forcing towers upon communities wherever and whenever they want, MPs were told yesterday.
Sue Grey, of Ban the Towers, told the select committee considering the group's 3100-signature petition of eight neighbourhoods with unwanted celltowers that often "only find out about them when workmen are climbing on the roof".
Residents of Waiheke Island's Surfdale Beach found out about a Vodafone tower only when a woman recovering from breast cancer asked workers in "unmarked white vans" what they were doing.
Read More...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10531758
https://omega.twoday.net/search?q=electromagnetic
rudkla - 12. Sep, 11:35
