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• Information for english speaking people
  1 April 2008, by postmaster

  Up-date : Citizen’s survey
  INTERNATIONAL MEDIA INFORMATION No 1
  Press breifing
  26/03/08
  Living close to HV power lines has consequences for health.
  People living close to very high voltage electricity transmission lines (400,000 volts) experience more health problems (head aches, disturbed sleep, irritability etc) and more serious illnesses (leukaemia and cancers of the breast and thyroid) than others. This is the finding of a first look at the information collected from a survey in (...)

• Pylons major health hazard inquiry told
  21 August 2007, by postmaster

  Living near high-voltage power lines increases the risk of childhood leukaemia, miscarriage and other ill health, a medical expert has told a board of inquiry.
  However, the Ministry of Health and Transpower are comfortable with existing standards and are pushing for "no change" to Government policy.
  Living underneath pylons has been linked to cancer and other illnesses. Photo / Greg Bowker
  Auckland urologist Dr Robin Smart presented documented evidence from around the world about ill (...)

• Bloomberg news : "Normandy Dairy Towns Challenge EDF on Nuclear Reactor (Update1)"
  10 December 2008, by postmaster

  By Tara Patel
  Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) — The lush green hills overlooking the dairy farms of Le Chefresne in Normandy have become a battleground in France’s efforts to boost power production.
  In a corner of France known for Camembert cheese and apples, state-controlled Electricite de France SA plans to build 200 foot-tall steel pylons with high-voltage cables to carry electricity from a nuclear plant. The proposal would add to the 400,000 volts that pylons already carry from two existing (...)

• The Independent : Electronic smog ’is disrupting nature on a massive scale’
  7 September 2008, by postmaster

  New study blames mobile phone masts and power lines for collapse of bee colonies and decline in sparrows
  By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
  Sunday, 7 September 2008
  Bees are able to change the polarity of their antennae at will. It is believed that that it is this that enables them to navigate using the Earth’s magnetic forces
  Mobile phones, Wi-Fi systems, electric power lines and similar sources of "electrosmog" are disrupting nature on a massive scale, causing birds and bees to lose (...)