Letters/Initiatives - Health
Writing formal letters isn't everyone's favourite pastime. For most of us, it is a lot of work, and our busy lives interfere with good intentions. Even when written, letters on this topic more often than not seem to fall on deaf ears, or result in a formulaic response and nothing more. A frustrating process. Group initiatives are even harder to organize.
Yet voices are necessary if any kind of progress can be made, with anything. Informative conversations, and letters to physicians, caregivers, community members, industry and government authorities, can all help to raise awareness about the biological health effects of electromagnetic fields and RF microwave radiation.
In this part of the CST website, we will attempt to present an ongoing collection of letters, articles and initiatives already undertaken that may serve as examples and springboards for others.
Hopefully, the more people hear and learn about the problem, and the more strategies and solutions are shared, the sooner we can work together to find relief and alternatives for those who are having difficulty coping in today's technological world.
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2012
CST Calls Upon Medical Experts Across BC to Protect Their Patients
PRESS RELEASE, January 25, 2012
PRESS RELEASE
"Citizens for Safe Technology Society (CST) has launched a Human Rights action against BC Hydro requesting accommodation of individuals refusing a wireless smart meter for health reasons. These are persons with a variety of health concerns ranging from cancer to heart problems, from seizures to electrosensitivity, and who have medical letters from their doctors requesting BC Hydro accommodate their health conditions by allowing an analogue meter to remain.
"On January 19, 2012, The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) officially stated its opposition and request for an immediate moratorium on the installation of wireless "smart meters" based on a scientific assessment of the current medical literature. Their letter states, "Chronic exposure to wireless radiofrequency radiation is a preventable environmental hazard that is sufficiently well documented to warrant immediate preventative public health action." The AAEM confirms that public health standards are inadequate and obsolete and cannot be used to protect the public from chronic, low intensity radiation exposures that raise credible questions about genetic and cellular effects, hormonal effects, male fertility, blood/brain barrier damage and increase in certain types of cancers. The AAEM warn that children are at heightened risk for "altered brain development, and impaired learning and behaviour" from such wireless exposure. http://aaemonline.org/images/CaliforniaPublicUtilitiesCommission.pdf
"CST agrees with the AAEM that physicians have an obligation to urge precaution when sufficient scientific and medical evidence suggests health risks which may negatively impact the health of vulnerable individuals and groups, and potentially affect large populations, as is the case with BC Hydro's wireless "Smart Meter Program."
"CST calls upon physicians and medical experts in BC to support public health and the Human Rights action by recommending an immediate moratorium on "smart meter" installation until these serious public health issues are resolved. We ask that they support patients seeking relief from involuntary and forced exposure to wireless "smart meter" emissions within their homes by requesting that BC Hydro accommodate them with an analogue meter, without additional cost or penalty. http://citizensforsafetechnology.org/Doctors-Information-Package-for-medical-conditions-connected-with-EHS,77,1766
"The emissions given off by wireless "smart meters" have been classified by the World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a Possible Human Carcinogen.
Una St.Clair
Executive Director, una@citizensforsafetechnology.org
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