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Citizen’s Survey « Living with a Very High Voltage Power Line ? »

dimanche 22 mars 2009, par postmaster

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France has around 13,000 km of corridors for very high voltage power lines, there are plenty of questions about effect of these lines on the living conditions for Independent experts regularly raise concerns about the health effects of prolonged through which run some 21,000 km of lines. people close by, or in some cases directly underneath.
exposure. Studies undertaken in other countries show that these lines have not been proved harmless – G. Draper 2005, Bio Initiative Report 2007, Anke Huss 2008.

Until now the industry, lead by RTE and the public authorities have asserted that all Following the “Public Debate” into the project to install the “THT Cotentin-Maine”, is fine, there’s no reason to be afraid and there are no effects on farms… necessary due to the construction of an EPR (3rd generation nuclear power station) at
Flamanville in Normandy, the “Co-ordination Interregionale STOP THT” (STOP-THT), which represents the group of associations in the three departments concerned, decided to conduct its own survey along existing very high voltage power lines.

In order to ensure that the work was done with proper scientific rigour
CRIIREM (Independent Centre for Research and Information on Electromagnetic Radiation) was engaged as scientific adviser.

This popular initiative is a first in France for this subject on the number of households Thanks to the support of our many partners we now have information detailing the surveyed. impact of very high voltage power lines on the conditions for people living and working
nearby.

This summary is made available so that all people of influence might make informed decisions.

Note : RTE is the company responsible for the HV power transmission network in France. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of EDF which in turn has the French state as majority shareholder. RTE has the sole contract for network development.


Voir en ligne : The article in french