All, If there was a suitable and alternate site, there would not have been any dispute about the mobile tower. And again I ask, is there no suitable alternate site around Saligao and which would also not be an eye sore to this quaint village?
Regards, Lloyd ----- Original Message ----- From: Ian da Costa To: SaligaoNet Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [SALIGAONET] Misinformation about the radiation from mobile towers Dear All, If there is new info which is made available, we should be ready to change. That is the only way fwd. I agree with Dalip dacruz. We must be just to ourselves and to others. There is no doubt that we were fed with wrong info to further someones Mission. Lets make amends and live happily ever after. Brig. Ian da Costa. Bairo Alto. On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:36 PM, dilip dacruz <[email protected]> wrote: There were other issues around the tower but FEAR was the main one, no doubt. As with g.m. foods, modern nuclear reactors, global warming, evolution and disasters like earthquakes and floods, there's a great deal of reactionary, emotional thought around. Gerrard's email should serve to remind us all once again that the earth is round, a few billion years old and that it revolves round the sun. It should also remind us that analytical thought and a willingness to change based on the evidence is the only way forwards for mankind. Science doesn't have all the answers and that it often itself changes as we acquire more knowledge, but that's no reason to revert to primitive reactionary thought. Ironically, one could argue that it was a scientist, albeit a corrupt one, that caused all the problems with the tower. That's another story..... I continue to struggle with my mobile when in Arrarim. [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:23:46 +0530 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [SALIGAONET] Misinformation about the radiation from mobile towers Last year, a small group of Saliganvkars created awareness in the Lourdes Convent school hall about the alleged dangers of the radiation from Mobile towers by showing a PP presentation of the so called expert Prof. Girish Kumar. The same presentation was used again for a much bigger group of villagers in Gladstone Ribeiro Sa's house and as a result the construction of the mobile tower by Dmello Telepower Pvt Ltd in Saligao was forced to stop. When 6 of the leaders had met in my (Gerard Delaney's) house after the Lourdes convent program, I had clearly explained to them how this Prof. Girish Kumar was using his position to create fear in the minds of the public about the radiation and thereby helping his daughter's business of selling meters to measure radiation and shields for it. I had even explained that the average frequency of light is one million times greater than that of microwave radiation. Hence according to the well established laws of Physics, light has energy greater than that of microwave radiation by one million. Thus it is ridiculous to be afraid of microwave radiation and not of visible light radiation which is one million times stronger! However, what transcribed during the meeting, was never released to the general public by the leaders of the agitation. Now a special panel of 13 members set up by the DoT in keeping with the Allahabad High Court's orders, has exposed the misdeeds of the Professor and affirmed that there is no danger to the health from the radiations emitted by mobile towers. Read about this at: Deccan Herald dated 25th of February 2014 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/388471/radiation-fears-mobile-towers-unfounded.html Rejecting the contention of electrical engineering professor Girish Kumar, the 13-member panel said Kumar repeatedly red-flagged these concern in the media because of his family's commercial interest in companies involved in manufacturing radiation-shielding products. Kumar's daughter Neha Kumar sells radiation-shielding products through her company NESA Radiation Solutions Pvt Ltd. The Indian Express; Feb 25 2014 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/iit-prof-hyped-cell-radiation-daughter-sold-protective-shields/ A committee set up by the department of telecommunications has raised a red flag over the ethical conduct of an IIT-Bombay professor for blowing out of proportion the effects of mobile phone tower radiation on humans and on the other hand promoting his family's business of products that claim to reduce the impact of such radiation. "The committee observed that his daughter, Neha Kumar, is selling radiation shielding solutions through her company NESA Radiation Solutions Private Ltd. On one hand, he is spreading misinformation and creating misconceptions and unfounded apprehensions in the mind of the public by sensationalizing and blowing out of proportion the effects of EMF radiation, and on the other hand, he is promoting his family's business in related products (which do not even follow any national or international standards), thus throwing professional ethics to the winds," the report said. ...so long as EMF radiation power levels in the vicinity of base stations of cell phone towers are below the prescribed limits, there should not be any cause of concern for adverse thermal health effects on human beings living close them," the committee said in its report. -- -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. 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(Retd) Ian da Costa Just out: Diary of an Infantryman http://www.scribd.com/doc/193091039/Dairy-of-an-Infantryman-Book-details -- -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
