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Not in Anyone’s Backyard! Critical Public Hearing 6/9
The Santa Fe City Council will vote June 9 on a proposed telecommunications law. If it passes, the ordinance will authorize hundreds of antennae towers to be built all over town. The problem is that if your house happens to be near a new cell tower, the signal will be so strong that your health could be negatively impacted. These would not be the kind of low-grade signals that emanate from your typical Wi-Fi. The waves associated with the system will have to travel to your distant neighbor’s home at the other end of your street many blocks away. Do Santa Feans really want to risk the health of our entire community in a Guinea-pig style test? If you question the antenna-tower approach in the same way that you wonder if we trust our technology too much (in light of, say, the Gulf oil disaster), please attend this hearing.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 7 PM
CITY HALL, 200 LINCOLN AVE.
Please also call your city councilors before the hearing, and let your concerns be made known. I will make my calls but will be unable to attend the hearing. For more information contact:
Arthur Firstenberg
PO Box 6216]
Santa Fe, NM 87502
(505) 471-0129
bearstar@fastmail.fm
05/05/2010 | Community | Ecology | Events | (0) Comments
