HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-12-12 Rebecca Melendez Testimony From: Rebecca Melendez
To: LPCtestimonv
Subject: Cell Tower Protection Please! INITIATOR: COUNTY COUNCIL(PL-CCI-2024-000009)Bill 194 Dec. 19th meeting
Date: Thursday, December 12,2024 9:51:08 PM
Aloha,
The Hawai'i County Director, Zendo Kerr, doesn't care about the people or the island because
he wants cell towers to go up everywhere without any real regulations or research on the
health risks.
This is an island that is mostly built on a mountain, and most everything goes up, so if you
build a tower, the top of it will be directly across from some kind of building because
everything goes up the mountain.
Please read these articles that show cell towers cause serious health risks.
hM2s://ehtrust.org/cell-towers-and-cell-antennae/compilation-of-research-studies-on-cell-
tower-radiation-and-health/
"Electromagnetic Fields: A Hazard to Your Health?" on Cell Tower
Radiation
"In recent years, concern has increased about exposure to radio frequency
electromagnetic radiation emitted from cell phones and phone station antennae.
An Egyptian study confirmed concerns that living nearby mobile phone base
stations increased the risk for developing:
• Headaches
• Memory problems
• Dizziness
• Depression
• Sleep problem
https://mdsafetech.org/cell-tower-health-effects/
Evidence of Harm from Cell Tower Radiation Rising
While Using Flawed Exposure "Safety" Guidelines
Human Exposure Guidelines have been set by a self appointed international group,ICNIRP, and based
on short term (30 minute) exposures that result in the heating of tissue only,not on biological effects such
as DNA damage,hematologic (blood cell)effects, cancer,neurologic harm,developmental abnormalities,
immunologic dysfunction, cardiac effects,wildlife effects or the increased vulnerability of developing
children.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/cell-tower-radiation-hannful-to-humans-study-1.95 8047
"We're getting a mirror effect now, because the exposures close to cell towers now
are almost identical in frequency, in signalling characteristics and in long-term low-
level chronic exposure duration as that early microwave sickness paper from the
irradiation of the Moscow embassy."
In 1978, researchers at Johns Hopkins University published a study on the long-term
effects of that radiation exposure and found it led to several serious health problems.
Among them: eczema, psoriasis, allergic and inflammatory reactions, neurological
and reproductive problems, tumours and mood disorders such as depression,
irritability and lack of concentration."
Please research on your own and learn that studies show cell towers are harmful to
humans, animals, and plants especially if they are directly across from where people
live.
Could you look at where the county has allowed cell towers?
There is a cell tower where the top of the tower is right across from this retirement
building on Hualalai St, right across from the retirement home. So this building is
getting full radiation effects all day and night.
A few towers are in the old industrial area, with the tops of the towers right across
from the highway, so all of us driving by are getting the full radiation.
In Hawi, a cell tower is right at the base of a gas station, and its top is directly across
from residential homes. So, these homes receive the full blast of radiation from these
towers all the time.
There should be research on these kinds of places to see if anyone has become sick
because research shows issues with insomnia, cancer, memory loss, dizziness...
Cell towers need to be taken more seriously and a lot more seriously than the Hawai'i
county director Zendo Kern is taking them. I'm sure it's a money thing for him.
Please stand for the safety of all who live here and don't allow cell towers to go up
without properly understanding what the effects on the community will be.
Thank you,
Sincerely,
Rebecca Melendez