Marconi2012
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Brendan is right. The planning authority is not allowed to consider health aspects of masts. We have been through this locally and I have made submissions to the local council and also to An Bord Pleanala.
We were lucky that the site was on a possible route of a new road and the bord turned it down.
Councils are asked to facilitate where possible the improvement of these services and it is very difficult to find acceptable grounds for refusal.
From a health point of view this radiation is 24 hours long and affects preschool children all day. There is a lot of evidence now that it can affect young children. A mast beside a school was recently taken down on the council's instruction near a school in Spain. There is plenty of information on the net.
I do not think we would have been successful except for the new road route.
If you pm me your email address I will send you my submission which may be of use.
Sorry OP but I find it a bit odd that someone with the user name Marconi is posting this!
There is a lot of evidence now that it can affect young children. ...There is plenty of information on the net.
That piece refers to the use of handsets, and one thing that is emphasised is the importance of proximity.Would the World Health Organisation suffice?
"while an increased risk of brain tumours is not established, the increasing use of mobile phones and the lack of data for mobile phones over time periods greater than 15 years warrant further research of mobile phone and brain cancer risk.
In particular,with the recent popularity of mobile phone use among younger people and therefore a potentially longer lifetime of exposure, WHO has promoted further research on this group.
Several studies investigating potential health effects on children and adolescents are underway"
As a firm believer in the EU Precautionary Principle I think extreme caution should be exercised in the location of these masts.
www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs193/en/
So I read it. And guess what? I don't see anything that persuades me that a mobile phone mast is hazardous (unless, perhaps, you spend a long time in very close proximity to the transmitter - very close being something fewer than 10 metres).As "newirishman" says -- checkout out wikipedia on "mobile phone radiation and health" This covers phones and masts and the "Lawsuits" section is interesting.
There is a lot of information on the internet and a lot of it is from other countries official government sites and most of them in layman's term says "be careful" Some countries prohibit masts within 100 ms of schools for example.
There is also a lot from "tin-hat brigade" and you have to pick what you chose to be responsible.
However The Precautionary Principle as enshrined in EU legislation would seem to be changing slowly some EU countries thinking.
There is a link on the WHO site that I noted to Masts and substations.
Would the World Health Organisation suffice?
"while an increased risk of brain tumours is not established, the increasing use of mobile phones and the lack of data for mobile phones over time periods greater than 15 years warrant further research of mobile phone and brain cancer risk.
In particular,with the recent popularity of mobile phone use among younger people and therefore a potentially longer lifetime of exposure, WHO has promoted further research on this group.
Several studies investigating potential health effects on children and adolescents are underway"
As a firm believer in the EU Precautionary Principle I think extreme caution should be exercised in the location of these masts.
www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs193/en/
And the piece quoted relates to handsets, not to masts.Sorry but are you reading something different to me, how does that answer the question I asked, all it states is that further studies are warranted?
We all use mobile phones - we all want them to operate and are quick to chastice a company that doesn't gives us adequate signal in every corner we visit - yet we don't want masts erected. Nimbyism at its finest.
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