Residents Protest Mobile Antenna Installations Over Health Risks
For an antenna that has been dismantled, a new repeater is arriving, and the panic over electromagnetic waves keeps the protest of Bardolinesi alive. Now, after the successful picketing of residents of Via Costabella, those nearby the Carabinieri barracks, the Police station on the street, and “Villa Serena”, the elderly reception home, have come out into the streets.
Protests and residents’ mobilizations
To alert the residents of Via Salvo D’Acquisto, a mobile antenna has been parked for several days at the back of the former Bolla cellar. Burned by what happened three years ago and having, after various struggles, managed to remove the Omnitel repeater installed on the tallest structure of the former cellar, the same citizens now wonder if this might be a real “mockery”.
The fact remains that, to avoid being caught off guard, they scheduled a meeting at 11 a.m. today with all residents of the area, then they plan to march in unity to the Municipality to ask Mayor Armando Ferrar! for explanations and, if necessary, “protest in defense of citizens’ health”.
Municipal and telecommunications company interventions
This situation still raises concerns among residents, who demand clear assurances to avoid ending up in the same situation as three years ago.
Motivated, without any doubt, by the positive outcome achieved by residents of Via Costabella, who for an entire week blocked access to the private land where a mobile measurement system was installed: a twenty-meter-high mast belonging to a new phone company.
Yesterday morning, indeed, the workers of Alcatel of Milan intervened to definitively dismantle the mobile system, following the municipal ordinance in which Ferrar! ordered the immediate removal of the unapproved mast.
This objective was successfully achieved by the about seventy citizens who last week signed a report-complaint regarding the “carcinogenic risks associated with magnetic fields”.
Concerns and safety advice
Pleased with the stance adopted by the Municipality, which ordered the dismantling of the mast because “a potentially serious situation for hygiene, public health, and the environment exists, due to the absence of elements to exclude it”, questions and concerns remain.
It’s clear that no citizen enjoys having a purifier or a dump nearby, much less having a source of electromagnetic waves over their head. But we have created needs now deemed unavoidable, since we live in a fully electrified society, bombarded by radio waves, to the point that it becomes essential not only to follow advice for the proper use of TV, computers, electrical objects but also for Municipalities to identify zones away from homes for the installation of repeaters, masts, or similar structures, as the electromagnetic pollution of the urban environment is growing massively.
Alvaro Joppi