Re: [IRCA] Reposting from www.qrz.com

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Miller, KJ8O wrote:
> RADIO HEALTH:  RADIO AND LEUKEMIA LINK HALTS TOWERS
> 
> A county official in Washington state has ruled that
> two AM towers can’t be built until possible health
> dangers of electromagnetic energy are analyzed.  This
> is an action that could have far ranging implications
> for anyone wanting to put in a new radio installation
> of any kind in that state.
> 
> The owners of KRKO A-M in Everett, Washington wants to
> add two towers to four that have been approved for a
> site south of Snohomish.  The Snohomish County
> official making the decision to delay the project
> cited a recent study published by The American Journal
> of Epidemiology.  It found that children who live
> within a certain distance of A-M radio antenna
> structures are twice as likely to develop leukemia.  
> (RW)

The study in question, which actually came out of South Korea, is, shall 
we say, questionable. While it did observe an increase, that increase 
was within the study's own margin of error - and even at that, there 
were many other environmental factors that weren't controlled for in the 
study. (As any of us who chase tower sites know all too well, they're 
rarely located in the "nicer" sections of town, and there are usually a 
lot of other potential health problems associated with the areas in 
which towers are typically sited.)

That said, the study certainly provides yet another useful hook on which 
NIMBYesque neighbors can hang their opposition to tower construction. 
(In the case of KRKO, which has now been fighting for well over a 
decade, at a legal cost that's now surely well into the seven figures, 
the neighbors simply don't want towers of any kind impinging on their 
view in their fairly rural area east of Everett.)

s


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