*** Tower danger ***
The shire, with St George is certainly a special part of Australia.
Whenever there is a threat to our living standards, someone with expertise rushes forward in defence. As Lyn McLean has done to expose the dangers of Telstra’a proposal for a mobile phone tower at Grays Point (Leader, April 9)
And what a great photo by John Veage.
Doubly alarming is the proposal to put the tower within the Royal National Park. Surely the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service will [oppose] that?
The Royal is the very first national park in Australia (1879) and its unspoiled integrity should be sacred.

Bob Walshe,
chairman, First National Park
Jannali

*** Minimal emission ***
In reference to the article “Mobile phone tower for park” (Leader, April 9). Finally Telstra has proposed to install a LTE (4G) phone tower for Grays Point.
This is great news as it will make high-speed wireless internet available to residents. ADSL2 is not available in Grays Point due to the poor-quality copper phone cables.
It will be years before the NBN reaches Grays Point.
Though, as usual, an ill-informed minority tries to stop progress.
I refer you to an article published by the American Cancer Society on January 31, 2013
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/athome/cellular-phone-towers
Three expert agencies on carcinogens have not classified mobile phone towers as cancer-causing.
Those bodies include the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), National Toxicology Program and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
The IARC found the radio frequency from a mobile phone tower is less than 1/100th of that emitted from a mobile phone.
I would be very surprised if the objectors to the proposed phone tower did not use mobile phones or other wireless devices themselves.
The tower will be 60 metres into the park. Take a walk through any shopping centre in the local area, for example Gymea, and note the locations of the mobile antennas. The energy emitted from these installations is minimal.

Brett Suttor, Grays Point

Thanks for that.

Have sent an email to The Leader detailing McLean’s lack of expertise in anything beyond inciting factless fears and then selling the snake oil wot cures it. Have invited them to contact Prof Simon Chapman for some correct information.

“Mobile tower plan for national park”
April 9, 2013, 6:11 a.m

http://www.theleader.com.au/story/1417244/mobile-phone-tower-plan-for-national-park/

EMR Australia director Lyn McLean, who has monitored scientific discussion on electromagnetic radiation (EMR) for the past 17 years, said the ARPANSA standard did not protect the public and needed to be changed.

I hope you and your daughter are coping well. I say ‘coping’ because there’s never a return to ‘before.’ You will both live with your memories and injuries for the rest of your lives. That you got an actual apology from your drunk driver may soften the way you react when you remember, but everyone who has turned an ignition key while drunk should know that your results and mine are a very real possibility.

I hope Mary thinks about me from time to time, but my strong suspicion is that she works very hard to avoid such memories.

Yep, there she is.

Mary’s looking well.

Prometheus Award-winning libertarian science fiction writer L. Neil Smith refers to the Democratic and Republican parties as actually the Mommy and Daddy wings, respectively, of the same Boot-on-Your-Neck Party. He has an excellent point.