This forms a strong precedent case, especially since it is lodged by the equivalent of a UK District Council. The nearest we have to health effects being regarded as reaching a ‘threshold of evidence’, and forming grounds for refusal, is the Mendip Council committee planning meeting in April 2022.
On April 6, 2022, the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Board of Health voted to send a cease and desist order to shut down a Verizon cell tower if Verizon does not respond with meaningful action regarding a cell tower . The Board took action after families living in the neighborhood of Shacktown near the tower on 877 South Street Pittsfield MA reported wireless radiation-related health issues soon after the tower became operational in 2020.
REQUIRING THAT PITTSFIELD CELLULAR TELEPHONE COMPANY, D/B/A VERIZON WIRELESS, AND FARLEY WHITE SOUTH STREET, LLC, SHOW CAUSE WHY THE PITTSFIELD BOARD OF HEALTH SHOULD NOT ISSUE A CEASE AND DESIST ORDER ABATING A NUISANCE AT 877 SOUTH STREET ARISING FROM THE OPERATION OF A VERIZON WIRELESS CELL TOWER THEREON AND CONSTITUTING IMMEDIATE ORDER OF DISCONTINUANCE AND ABATEMENT IF NO HEARING IS REQUESTED
Whereas, soon after the facility was activated and began transmitting, the City started to receive reports of illness and negative health symptoms from residents living nearby the facility, and in particular, from residents living in the so-called “Shacktown” neighborhood. The negative health symptoms the affected residents have reported include complaints of headaches, sleep problems, heart palpitations, tinnitus (ringing in the ears), dizziness, nausea, skin rashes, and memory and cognitive problems, among other medical complaints.
Suggested Action: take or make a picture of a corded Landline Telephone, a Telephone Booth or anything else Landline related, add a “Save our Copper Analogue Landlines!” message + name of country and share it with the Media, Global Protest for Freedom 22/23 March, and Safetech International:
2022: OUR ANALOGUE COPPER LANDLINE TELEPHONES PROVIDE RELIABLE, HIGH QUALITY, AFFORDABLE VOICE SERVICE.
Help us maintain full access to our well-established and vital landline network.
Telecom companies are planning to pull the plug on our essential landlines in favour of less-regulated, less reliable and more expensive wireless phones or Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol (VOIP). They lack a sensible plan to keep people safely and reliably connected. British Telecom (BT), for example, have already been moving customers from landlines to internet connections, although they have temporarily postponed the rollout after escalating complaints from concerned customers.
BT to end landline phones sparking fears for millions of vulnerable and elderly people: “Around six percent of households – roughly 1.5million homes – do not have access to the Internet, according to watchdog Ofcom.”
Dismantling landlines will cost us our safety, health, jobs, and cut off critical emergency communications access to millions of people. We must defend our landlines from unscrupulous telecom companies and governments. If you want to keep your choice to have a reliable landline in your home or business, you need to act now:
Re-investing in our copper telephone landline network will be beneficial to Public Health, Security and Ecology as it serves as a necessary, reliable and safe alternative to power-grid dependent, energy-hungry communications systems like VOIP and mobile phone services. There is no longer any question whether wireless radiofrequency (RF) radiation – used in mobile phone communications and wireless devices – is harmful to humans and wildlife. Commonly identified health consequences of short and longer term exposures include: insomnia, headaches, cancer, autism, and other serious and life changing ailments.
Tens of thousands of scientific papers (linked herein) have cited connections to the role of EMFs in a multitude of adverse health effects, including depression, infertility, cancer, damage to DNA/gene expression, oxidative stress, pregnancy complications, melatonin production, neurological disorders, immune dysfunction, Alzheimers/dementia, leukaemia, and many, many more.
