The effects of long-term exposure to EMF - Electro-Magnetic Fields - created
by the current flowing through high-tension power transmission lines, is still
in debate and very much in the air. Most utilities will happily provide
their own 'studies' showing no adverse effects whatsoever. Of course,
didn't the Asbestos industry do the same thing once?
It is not the task of this site to make judgments on this issue, only to
provide appropriate information and links to information so that you can decide
for yourself if sleeping near a substation or power lines is right for you.
HEALTH FACTS CONCERNING HIGH VOLTAGE POWER LINES
If you are concerned about power line radiation, you are not alone. Martin
Halper, a director of the "Environmental Protection Agency" said in a Fortune
Magazine article on magnetic radiation: "In all my years of looking at
chemicals, I have never seen a set of epidemiological studies that remotely
approached the weight of evidence that we're seeing with EMF electromagnetic
fields. Clearly, there is something here." (Fortune, Dec. 1990)
Below are quick precise points which were pulled from internet research from
different studies. This is a start to inform you of health hazards associated
with Electromagnetic Fields from High Voltage Overhead Power Lines!
Due to time constraints in trying to get this information out , these are only
a few of the facts. Please research for yourself, the implications of living
close to a high voltage power line or substation. EMF is the abbreviation for
Electric Magnetic Fields.
 | A major new study found that children whose birth address was within 200
meters of an overhead power line had a 70 % increased risk of leukemia.
Appearing in the June 2005 British Medical Journal, the study concludes
there is a statistical link between EMF from power lines and leukemia. A
20% increase in leukemia was noted at 200-600 meters away. |
(Study done by the Childhood Cancer Research Group at the University of
Oxford.)
| A new UK study similarly finds a link between power line EMF and
childhood leukemia. (Also reported by the BBC on October 30, 2004.) |
| A study called the Feychting/Ahlbom study included data for
500,000people over a 25 year period. It carefully excluded other factors
like socio-economic status, air pollution etc., and found an increase in
childhood leukemia, lymphoma, and brain tumors. |
| The University of North Carolina reported a study by Loomis and Savitz
where there a disturbing "doubling of the expected breast cancer rates for
women exposed to EMF's in the electrical trade. (Microwave News, Nov/Dec
1993). |
| More recently, a major study linked EMF's with Alzeimer's. Results from
two studies conducted in Finland and one in Los Angeles indicate that people
with a high exposure to EMF's are at least three times as likely to develop
Alzeimer's disease as those without significant exposure. (Network News,
Aug/Sep 1994). |
| In what is probably the largest study ever conducted on EMF exposure,
researchers in Sweden announced in 1992, they had determined a dose-response
relationship between exposure to EMF's from power-distribution lines and
childhood leukemia. |
| Scientists in Russia have done more studies on EMF than any other
country, and for decades have been reporting that electric field's cause
high blood pressure, changes in white and red blood cell counts, chronic
fatigue disorders, and immune system dysfunction. |
| In 1990, an EPA draft report recommended that EMF's be considered a
Class B carcinogen. This class included formaldehyde, DDT, dioxins, and
PCB'S. In a later watered down version, the reference to Class B was
deleted, with an explanation that said the basic interaction between EM
fields and biological interactions leading to cancer are not understood.
Yet, in the same report, they suggest there is a casual link between
leukemia, lymphoma and cancer in children with exposure to magnetic fields
from residential 60hertz distribution systems! One must wonder how these
two contrasting statements coexist in the same report. |
PLEASE RESEARCH EMF'S FOR YOURSELF. THERE ARE LOTS OF STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN
DONE . JUST REMEBER TO CHECK AND SEE WHO PAID FOR THE STUDY, SO THAT THE
RESULTS ARE UNBIASED. . NONE OF THE STUDIES ABOVE WERE PAID FOR BY THE
ELECTRIC COMPANIES. MAKE YOUR OWN DECISION ABOUT EXPOSURE TO EMF'S FOR YOUR
FAMILY.
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