j3DV] DAY SATURDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2009
Lawyer ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
"I stopped using the phone when I checked it was not safe"
BORJA OLAIZOLA José Alberto Arrate is one of the few lawyers in Spain specialized in diseases caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields. Accustomed to sue as a quixotic loner against the legions of lawyers hired by the powerful telecommunications companies, this 54-year Eibar got the first sentence ordered to dismantle a mobile phone mast on health grounds. - I have understood that he stopped using the phone a few years ago. - The mobile is a very useful tool if not abused. I had to use quite often for work but when I started to see some reports and I learned some things I became convinced it is not safe and I decided to pull them away rather strict. - takes a long time without it?
- Since 1999. That year I got a very complicated case. A neighbor of a property Eibar object to put a cell tower in your home. It was the only community that did not want. It seemed a strange question because until then had not heard that the antennas could cause health problems.
- but accepted the case. - The issue did not attract me much since the professional point of view but I agreed to take him because he knew the person concerned. - "It was a place the antenna?
- The judge said it was rejected because it requires unanimity for placement. It was a sentence
"There are antennas that emit a power 4,000 times greater than the recommended"
"Russia discovered that the leukemia was fired with high voltage lines"
"Each antenna seeks about 6,000 euros a day and there are some 60,000 throughout Spain »
that a precedent because there were other interpretations say that a majority was sufficient to the antenna.
- was the first lawyer who was able to disable a mobile phone mast on health grounds.
- Following the case of Eibar Erandio came a neighbor who had a child affected by a disorder of hyperactivity. Airtel is now Vodafone had put an antenna outside the room of the girl. The judge understood that the waves could aggravate his condition and ordered as a precautionary measure to stop working.
- The operator would not grace.
- ignored the requirements and the judge had no choice but to appear at the place and seal the antenna. Then came the sentence, the first stating that for health reasons that antenna should not have been installed.
- Is this still standing antenna?
- It has been nine years and just this year the Supreme Court issued a ruling dismissing confirmatory attendant resources. The station has been dismantled.
- What is the power limit of the antennas in Spain?
- Now at 400 microwatts per square centimeter, 4,000 times higher than the limit of 0.1 ml-crovatios advising international agencies.
- sounds like a lot.
- A Barcelona telecom engineer told me to set that limit a doll filled with fluid similar to Michelin and they started to apply electromagnetic fields. When the liquid changed color, it was when it came to 400 microwatts, decided that there should be the limit.
- Is there evidence that exposure causes physical ailments?
- A project funded by the EU and the twelve participating European hospitals concluded that low levels of exposure to electromagnetic fields was a proliferation of malignant cells.
- will have been done more tests.
- Laboratory experiments with mice given the same conclusions. The proliferation of harmful cells is much higher when exposure involved. Has also been shown that mice exposed have a serious disruption in their circadian rhythm, which is the regular
the sleep among other things. Mice are much more active and do not know when to go to sleep. Alterations cease as soon as there is no longer radiation.
- hard to understand that the scientific community does not take a clearer position if there is evidence of that nature.
- Keep in mind that there are powerful economic interests at stake. Nor is it a matter demonstrated 100% because they may not have sufficient time. In the final analysis, the mobile is a recent invention.
- Developments such as X-rays did not seem dangerous.
- Nobody thought that X-rays could be harmful. The wealthiest people, the ones that could afford it then began to abuse them and dropped like flies until it established a cause-effect and found that over-exposure to X-rays are lethal. With non-ionizing radiation is going in that direction. In France wifi facilities are prohibited in schools when they begin to
here offered as a novelty.
- There are countries with more caution.
- One of the most restrictive Russia. After the Second World War began to rebuild power lines and soon realized that there were many cases of cancer. Investigated and found that childhood leukemia is triggered in populations living near high voltage lines. In countries like Switzerland, the new lines can not exceed 1 micro-tesla. In Spain are allowed up to 100 microteslas.
- How much do the operators to a neighboring community by placing an antenna?
- Depends on the difficulties that have to be installed. Old contracts are handled in figures entre 700.000 y un millón de pesetas al año. Hoy en día pueden llegar hasta los 13.000 euros anuales.
- Las comunidades son cada vez más reacias.
- Es que la oposición de un solo vecino basta para que la antena sea rechazada. Por eso las operadoras recurren a edificios de un solo propietario que normalmente tiene todos los pisos en arrendamiento.
- ¿Cuántos ingresos genera una de esas antenas?
- Unos 6.000 euros al día, según datos que tuvo que aportar una de las compañías en un juicio.
- And in Spain there ...
- is estimated to be about 60,000 antennas. It is a very important economic engine.
- Is there any regulation?
- The community's most advanced is Castile-La Mancha, which adopted a rule regulating the power of the antennas and sets a limit of 0.1 microwatts per square centimeter for sensitive areas such as hospitals or schools.
- Is there a similar rule in Euskadi?
- Is there any ordinance as now paves the city of San Sebastian but focus on urban issues and leave aside the truly important, which is the regulation of power and distance.
- The municipalities say they are functions of the Ministry of Industry.
- Municipalities have the ability to perform a sort through the business license. In Toledo, for example, antennas can not pass of 0.1 microwatts and telecommunications service works like any other city.
- Do you think councils should do more?
- Should develop a census to know how many antennas there are and which are licensed. Would also have to make a radiological map to find the radiation they emit. And finally make an epidemiological study to determine the mortality among the population exposed to radiation. That would allow municipalities to have objective data that will surely sensitize the courts in the event that decide to take a leap forward going to regulate the sector
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