Power Lines In New Link To Childhood Leukaemia

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-21-2007 | Roger Highfield

[blam]

EMF again.

[Perdogg]

[cmsgop]

Down the street from me there is a nice house on the market 1600sqf nice lot,great price,one thing though,..Yup, You Guessed it. It’s been on the market close to two years.

[SteveMcKing]

Have they suggested any mechanism? Does an electric field align certain biomolecules so they are prone to error? In what way would this mutate your DNA?

[kinoxi]

The Government has been urged to consider a ban on building new homes and schools near overhead high voltage power lines...
The report stops short of specifically recommending a ban on new homes and schools within 200 feet of power lines, or vice versa,

Another non specific target for the next commission to 'study'.

[elkfersupper]

Recycled anti-growth argument.

I'm pretty sure that some people won't be happy until we're all subsistence farmers with outhouses.

[kinoxi]

It seems to be health statistics. The mechanism would be denied forever IMO, because they can. We all need electricity.

[Uncle Miltie]

The largest dose of electromagnetism you’re going to get is from your electric blanket. Effects of powerlines are negligible by the time you site your house across the street.

[conserv8ive1]

Just buy Cancer Offset Credits, you’ll be fine....Al Gore said.

[VRW Conspirator]

It’s the combination of EMR and global warming...yeah, that’s the ticket

[GOPJ]

For higher magnetic fields levels, the leukaemia risk was estimated to be double.

bump

[calex59]

Global warming doesn’t seem to be working out so well, so I guess we will be treated to another EMF scare again. What dorks. I guess we can just shut the grids down across the country and that will make us all safe! Good luck living in the dark because you won’t be able to light candles either, too big of a carbon footprint don’t ya know!

[luckystarmom]

We live by power lines, so I hope this isn’t true.

[maine-iac7]

I once pulled my car off to the side of the road to pick some wildflowers...underneath high power lines. I touched my car and was quite shocked - quite literally. I ran my hand along the car - it was ‘alive’ with a low, pulsating energy. ‘made me wonder that if the lines made the metal of the car vibrate - what might long term exposure do to ones cells?

[abercrombie_guy_38]

I would never live next to large powerlines. Too many if’s, and’s, and but’s.

[Slow Lane]

A town in nearby Westchester county New York agreed to spend four million dollars to wrap their school in a protective coating to keep out those nasty EMF’s. They already pay enormous property taxes, but IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN. How much is a roll of Reynold’s Wrap?

[Theo]

Awesome response! :-D

[PAR35]

I don’t know if there is any link or not, but when I was house shopping a few years ago, I immediately cut from the list those which backed up to transmission easements.

[blam]

"I would never live next to large powerlines. Too many if’s, and’s, and but’s."

I don't either. Why should I take a chance when there are suspicions. That's always been one of the things I look for when I'm buying a house.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Damn VARs!

We need to pass laws to ban them! (Volts Amps Reactive)

Oh wait! If we do we won’t be able to move electricity as they magnetize the lines and make electricity flow, make transformers work and make induction motors in air conditioners and other items work.

Let’s go back to whale oil lamps instead.