To: Charlemont Selectboard
No Wi-Fi Tower on Charlemont's scenic Legate Hill Rd.
Negative impacts of the proposed tower include: decreased property values, public health and environmental harm, and creating a tower vulnerable to the installation of additional antennas by the telecom industry with minimal or no local input (ie, the deployment of 5G infrastructure).
Why is this important?
My wife Godeliève Richard, who lives on Legate Hill near the proposed site, developed microwave sickness in 2010. There are now more than 350,000 people receiving disability payments for this condition in Sweden alone. Property values near cell towers have been shown to drop 10 - 20%. Pollinators, children and pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to the 24X7 increase in microwave radiation exposure this would create. On March 28, scientists reviewing the National Toxicology Program’s 25 million dollar rat study concluded that there is “clear evidence” linking microwave radiation to the development of cancer. There are now more than 25,000 studies dating back to those by the U.S. Navy in the 1970’s linking this exposure to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, depression, tree damage, DNA damage, oxidative stress, behavior and attention issues, sleep problems, pollinator decline, Autism, decreased sperm count, and more. Research and resources: ehtrust.org and hilltownhealth.org