Mast emissions inside guidelines
Tuesday 1st July 2008, 2:29PM BST.
ALL mobile masts in Guernsey are said to be within safety standards set by the Office of Utility Regulation.
It conducted a survey in April to ensure that each site complied with guidelines laid down by the International Commission for Non-Ionising Radiation Protection.
And although sharing masts had increased the cumulative emissions from certain sites, these were all still well within the limits. Out of the 66 places tested, Cable & Wireless’s mast at Centenary House recorded the highest level of emissions. However, even this was 22 times below the ICNIRP guidelines.
The mobile mast with the lowest reading was Wave’s at the Castel Hospital, which was more than three million times below.
‘This audit will, I hope, provide reassurance to islanders that the telecoms companies are taking their obligations seriously and that there is an independent check to ensure that this will remain the case,’ said OUR director-general John Curran.
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It’s irresponsible and and downright dangerous of the Government to rely on the outdated ICNIRP guidelines, that only protect you from masts cooking your flesh. The scientific basis of ICNIRP guidelines is more than a decade old and that science has long been replaced by abundant biologically based scientific evidence that clearly demonstrates that biological hazards occur at exposure levels thousands of times below the ICNIRP guidelines. For up-to-date information on the inadequacy of current mast emission guidelines, look up the BioInitiative report.
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