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Cell Phone Equipment Installation Sparks Controversy, Petition Second June 20, 2007 The Valley Voice Volume 16, Number 12 June 20, 2007 Delivered to every home between Edgewood, Kaslo & South Slocan. Published bi-weekly. “Your independently owned regional community newspaper serving the Arrow Lakes, Slocan & North Kootenay Lake Valleys.” Cell phone equipment installation sparks controversy, petition by Art Joyce Yfi wireless internet is just as dangerous. that.” Hall says Telus is confident Shawn Hall says Telus negotiated prompted in part by a case in Colwood Cell phone service may be coming “Many communities have rejected Canada’s Safety Code 6 is sufficient to directly with CBC for the right to (near Victoria) in 2000, where citizens to New Denver, but not everyone is this form of EMF pollution based on protect human health. However, at ‘piggyback’ on the existing tower, as a were angered by the lack of public happy about it, and many are worried independent scientific data showing it present Canadian electromagnetic cost-effective means of providing cell consultation for a radio and wireless about the potential health risks. A is dangerous to human health,” says frequency radiation (EMF) levels are phone service. The installation of transmission tower built in their petition has been presented to Village Anderson. “It would be idiotic to set based only on what can heat or burn telecommunications equipment is neighbourhood. council demanding suspension of the destroy the main reason people come skin, not possible microcellular effects. governed by the federal authority Despite government and industry service pending public consultation. here – for the healthy environment.” Many observers believe that Industry Canada, which allows assurances, citizens in countries around The Village received no notification Health Canada has sided with the scientific studies cited by the $40 billion municipalities’ input as to the location the world, including Canada, have from Telus other than an application for World Health Organization (WHO) in annual cell phone industry are tainted of towers but states that they “cannot lobbied city councils to have cell phone a building permit to construct the shed stating that there are “no known health by an obvious conflict of interest. Mike prevent a radiocommunication facility masts moved or torn down. The that houses the computer equipment. effects” from cell phones or transmitters. Repacholi, who headed the WHO from being built.” Vancouver school board does not allow Telus technicians have been installing Shawn Hall, media relations spokesman project to set world standards for safe Industry Canada Director for cell phone antennae on school property. the cell phone transmitters on the CBC for Telus, says the company abides by levels of EMF exposure, has since left Okanagan-Kootenay region Bob New Denver resident Penny broadcast tower on the Carpenter Creek Health Canada regulators, “who survey the organization to work as an industry Bissell says the federal agency is in the Bonnet urges people to “get educated” flats. The expected range is said by Telus all the scientific literature on the subject. consultant. He has a reputation for process of revising its public about the issue. “I think we should all to be about two kilometres or ‘line of The level of emissions our cell towers downplaying cell phone technology’s consultation policy based on a become aware of the controversy and sight,’ possibly extending as far as Hills, produce are thousands of times below health hazards. nationwide review. The review was question our use of this technology.” Red Mountain, Idaho Peak, and into Valhalla Park. The transmitters operate in the 800 megahertz (MHz) band. Members of the Healthy Housing Society and other residents gathered about 115 signatures on a petition calling for a moratorium on the service until the public has been consulted. The petition was presented to New Denver council the evening of June 12. Council decided to contact Telus to request they suspend activation of cell phone service pending public consultation. International scientific studies have indicated serious health risks from the pulsed electromagnitic frequencies (EMF) emitted by cell phones and transmitters in the 800 to 1800 MHz range. Studies suggest that children are especially vulnerable to the risk of developing leukemia, ADD and learning disabilities. A long-term study done between 1994-2004 in Naila, Germany showed that after the first five years, “the relative risk of getting cancer had tripled” for residents living near a cellular transmission tower. A study conducted by Tel Aviv University in Israel in a neighbourhood with a cell phone mast found similar results. The Jody Cliff of Red Mountain caught a 19-pound Rainbow Trout at the mouth of Silverton Creek June 8. It took Cliff an hour to reel it in, as he was in his kayak for the entire fight. EMF ‘hot zone’ seems to be within 300- 400 metres of a transmission site. The Second annual Our Way Home Reunion to display soldiers’ tombstones CBC tower in New Denver is within 200-300 metres of New Denver homes. submitted in the Chicago Seven trial. Weinglass Gandhi and President and co-founder Maryem Tollar and her uncle and poet Chris Anderson, an EMF auditor The second annual Our Way Home is a leading human rights attorney of the MK Gandhi Institute for peace activist Ehab Lotayef; Country and consultant, spent an afternoon Peace Event and Reunion will bring currently defending five Cubans in US Nonviolence in Memphis, Tennessee; Joe McDonald who performed at taking EMF/RFR (radio frequency together an impressive lineup of prisons. Peggy Mason, former Canadian Woodstock; Ember Swift; and icons radiation) readings in the vicinity of the keynote speakers and performers July This year’s event will also feature, Ambassador for Disarmament and over the last 50 years in music including CBC tower in New Denver to establish 4-8 at the Brilliant Cultural Centre and for the first time in Canada, the Israeli Military Refuser; and the co- Utah Phillips and Rosalie Sorrels. current emissions rates. He believes that Selkirk College in Castlegar. Peace Arlington Northwest exhibit, a dramatic founders of the new Middle East peace For more information see existing levels are already too high in activists, war resisters and the general display of over 3,000 tombstones and organization, Combatants For Peace, www.ourwayhomereunion.com or places. In Britain, monitoring of cell public will celebrate the courageous crosses with the names of US soldiers Younatan Shapira and his Palestinian contact Isaac Romano, Director, Our phone masts in some cases has revealed legacy and contribution made to who have died in Iraq. This massive partner in peace. Way Home Peace Event & Reunion transmissions up to 250 times the Canadian life by US war resisters. exhibit will for the first time include An exciting highlight at the event 250-352-1187. Tickets are available at licensed levels. Traditional radio and TV Keynote speakers will feature crosses and tombstones with the names is the Rolling Out The Resistance to War Earth Spirit Books in Winlaw, transmission uses analog technology Daniel Ellsberg and Senator Tom of the Canadian soldiers who have died Peace Concert on Saturday, July 7. The Sunnyside Naturals in Kaslo, Books and which experts believe is far safer than Hayden, along with Leonard Weinglass, in Afghanistan. concert will feature music spanning 50 Music in Castlegar, and at Still Eagle, pulsed digital signals, but not without the attorney who defended Ellsberg in Other keynote speakers include years of styles including Egyptian Gold Yogi, Spirit Quest and Kutenai health effects. Anderson believes that the Pentagon Papers trial and Hayden Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Canadian performer and Juno nominee, Clothing in Nelson. a regular conservation feature brought to you by Use low-angle or pulsating sprinklers that produce large fat droplets of water. Sprinklers that spray the water high into the air or produce a mist or fine spray lose much of the water through evaporation. As a general rule, most lawns and gardens require little more than 2 to 3 centimeters (1 inch) of water per week. Water only in the morning and early evening. This, too, reduces evaporation. www.columbiapower.org COUNTRY FURNITURE & HOME DECOR Looking for something out of the ordinary? Country Furniture & Home Decor, 115 Hall St. Nelson, Toll-Free 1-866-352-3665 2 NEWS The Valley Voice June 20, 2007 Province close to agreement with Ktunaxa nation – Sinixt feel shut out by Art Joyce as forestry, wildlife, fish and water are “We encourage First Nations to purposes of treaty negotiations only Discussions have already been held The Ktunaxa-Kinbasket First part of negotiations, which can result in work out the overlaps between deals with BC. Marilyn James says the with the Shuswap and Okanagan Nation and the BC government are shared or outright ownership of themselves,” says Beedle. Sinixt contemporary boundaries are nations, although they’re not involved close to an agreement on a land and resources, or just access to them in some A map produced by the BC Treaty north to the Big Bend area around in the treaty process. The Ktunaxa have cash settlement, according to the cases. According to Beedle, there was Commission representing an Revelstoke, to the height of the Purcells told the Westbank band, which is Province’s Chief Negotiator, land considered near Nakusp but that approximation of traditional Ktunaxa and Selkirks on the east, the height of currently involved in treaty negotiations, Bronwen Beedle. The two parties are has been dropped from discussions. territory takes in an area from the the Monashees on the west, and south that they prefer to deal on a nation by in stage four of a six-stage process in “We take into account municipal Alberta boundary west to Castlegar, and across the US-Canadian border.
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