May 8, 2008
Learn from history, proceed with caution
Thank you for your informative article on the problem of cellphone towers in our neighbourhoods [“Resident objects to cell towers”, Straight Talk, May 1-8]. The government insists there are no radiation dangers from these installations. Yet, as children, we used to go into Eaton’s and X-ray our feet for fun. (These devices were used to make sure the shoes fit.) I have a friend who is on a pension because, as a child, she played in storage piles of asbestos. So we do not yet know about future dangers of new technology. Shall we mention urea formaldehyde foam? If the shoe fits!
This is why we are upset that we will have a cellphone tower pointing directly at our building.
> Mally Dixon and Robert MacIntosh / Vancouver
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