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 Knaresborough case goes to Ecclesiastical Court !

London protest rally

UK Mobile phone base-station safety.
Mobile phones and base-station emit MICROWAVES.

FACT  The health risks of mobile phone radiation exposure are not yet properly understood.

CHOICE  The mobile handset user chooses how often to make calls and accept any radiation risk, children in particular are advised to limit call duration. People living near phone masts in residential areas have no choice.

GUARANTEES  Is long-term chronic exposure to the low intensity microwave radiation from mobile phone base-station masts, or rooftop antenna, safe? Earlier categorical assurances that mobile handsets were completely safe have now been withdrawn Can similar assurances of base station mast safety be trusted?

Exposure to RF radiation at current exposure levels is now accepted as causing biological effects on humans. Though proof of harm from these effects has yet to be accepted, it is proper that we should be protected from any unnecessary danger. Even if not dangerous, why should we have to accept these effects? I like my response time and brainwaves the way they are! 

The Stewart Report says that “... the gaps in knowledge are sufficient to justify a precautionary approach.” and recommends that “ in making decisions about the siting of base stations, planning authorities should have the power to ensure that the RF fields to which the public will be exposed will be kept to lowest practical levels that will be commensurate with the tele-communications system operating effectively.” In other countries a 300 to 500 metre exclusion zone between high power base-stations and inhabited properties is observed.

Stewart report [section 1.19] “people can vary in their susceptibility to environmental hazards. It is not possible at present to say that exposure to RF radiation, even at levels below national guidelines, is totally without potential adverse health effects, and that the gaps in knowledge are sufficient to justify a precautionary approach”.

HAVE YOUR SAY ?  If you have a base station going up next door, you might want to voice your concerns. You’d be lucky to get the chance. Most people don’t find out till it’s too late, often being unaware for years that they are living with an unnecessary danger.  The Federation Of Electronic Industries, of which Vodafone is a member, has stated “operators will help ensure that local communities are better informed about applications made for new base station sites and have appropriate opportunity to make their views known”. This simply does not happen.
 

INFORMATION  There is no shortage of information on this subject available, the problem is having time to find and sort it. This site aims to bring all this together along with information on our local campaign.
 

 
Basestations - Why worry Antenna beam power
How much more powerfull than your microwave oven?

Local campaign
Knaresborough residents faced with the prospect of an antennae installation on their doorsteps. Read what happened.

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- Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.

Holy Trinity Church case goes to Ecclesiastical Court

We are now fighting the Vodafone petition to be granted “a faculty” (listed buildings consent under the Church Ecclesiastical Exemption planning system). These are legal proceedings under the Consistory Court of the Diocese, control exercised by His Honour Judge Grenfell Chancellor of the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds.  more

This is a test case health matters being the main issue, other Chancellors are awaiting the outcome. We need to provide legal representation and an Expert Witness, who can explain the health issues to the Court.

CAN YOU HELP US.....We have appointed physicist Dr. Gerard Hyland as our expert witness and now have to raise over £1500 by March.
Many local residents have already pledged amounts from £5-£100.
FUNDRAISING DONATIONS - please help if you can, to stop the proliferation of mobile phone installations on churches countrywide, not just in Knaresborough. If we can win on health issues it is also a victory for heritage and morality.

London protest rally
Saturday 8th  March 2003

Mast Sanity is organising a rally in London to protest about the insensitive  siting of mobile phone and tetra masts
Details and petition

Families Against
Dangerous Electronic Radiation.

Last updated Jan. 2003