5G/4G Small Cells in Ohio: Insurance Issues, Health and Environmental Impacts

Every Elected Official Should Know

• Swiss Re  Report on 5G: The  insurance authority Swiss Re released a white paper classifying 5G as a “high” emerging risk cautioning that “potential claims for health impairments may come with a long latency.”
• Read the Harvard Book Captured Agency: How the Federal Communications Commission is Dominated by the Industries it Presumably Regulates free online hereon undue industry influence into the science and policy of RF. 
• Research on EMF and Bees, on Wildlife, on Trees
• Read the International EMF Scientific Appeal now signed by more than 250 scientists. 

Awareness Posters/Factsheets

• EHT has developed large and small posters on 5G for your awareness table or to place on one side of your flyer
• Grassroots Environmental Factsheet on 5G
• Factsheet on 5G and Health. This factsheet PDF is hyperlinked to scientific resources and key facts  about 5G and is best sent electronically to others because it will answer a lot of their questions. 5G Factsheet in Color, 5G Factsheet in Black and White

NOTABLE NEWS ARTICLES

• “Is 5G Going to Kill Us All”, The New Republic
• “We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe” Scientific American Dr. Joel Moskowitz UC Berkeley
• “5G Whiz” An Investigation by Full Measure
• “Mobile phones and health: is 5G being rolled out too fast?” Computer Weekly
• “An Engineer’s Perspective Does 5G Pose Health Risks?” Electronics Blog EDN.com
• “The stars, G5 cell towers, and electromagnetic radiation exposure” by Winona La Duke
• “Preserving Local Voices in Broadband Deployment” by NRDC
• “5G and the FCC: 10 Reasons Why You Should Care” by NRDC
• “5G:The Unreported Global Threat” by Devra Davis PhD, MPH

The Center for Public Integrity Investigations

• “5G Cell Service Is Coming. Who Decides Where It Goes? (New York Times)
• ‘Residents worried about small cell safety
• “5G wireless pits cities against telecoms and their friends in the FCC”
• “FCC says small cells will close the digital divide. Most say they won’t”

Santa Clara Medical Association Magazine Articles

• “Wireless Silent Spring”
•  “A 5G Wireless Future: Will it give us a Smart Future 

VIDEOS TO SHARE

Frank Clegg, former Microsoft Canada Interviewed about 5G and Wireless Video

Investigate Europe’s Two Part Investigation on 5G: These 2019 reports cover the 5G rollout and the history of industry influenced research on EMFs.

• 5G The Mass Experiment (Part 1)
• How Much is  Safe? Finances Effect Research (Part 2)

EHT’s Youtube Playlist on 5G and Science

5G Health Effects: University of California San Francisco Lecture by Dr. Devra Davis

Health and Environmental Effects of 5G: Educational Webinar

IMPORTANT WEBSITES AND WEBPAGES

What You Need to Know About 5G: This EHT webpage has a quick summary of what you need to know about 5G small cells. We recommend that anyone interested in 5G start here to get an overview of the issues.

Insurance White Papers classify the rollout of 5G and Smartcities as “High Risk.” The 2019 Swiss Re Report 5G is rated as a “high impact” emerging risk affecting property and casualty claims in more than 3 years. “Off the leash – 5G mobile networks”  (p. 29)….As the biological effects of EMF in general and 5G in particular are still being debated, potential claims for health impairments may come with a long latency. Read Insurance White Papers here. 

EHT webpage on Protective US City Ordinancesthat attempt to minimize the small cell roll out in neighborhoods. EHT has compiled ordinances from around the country that you can download and use in your city. This page is critical to provide to your city officials who are interested in what other cities are doing.

5G Technology vs Science and Freedom of Choice: A neighborhood flyer with basic facts by Americans for Responsible Technology

What states have 5G streamlining bills passed? Find out here at the National Conference of State legislatures website.  “Twenty state legislatures have enacted small cell legislation that streamlines regulations to facilitate the deployment of 5G small cells. Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Mexico, Ohio,  Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginiaand Washington. Additionally, the Missouri legislature passed a small cell bill that is awaiting the governor’s signature.”

Members of Congress have written letters to the FCC asking about safety. Please see a list of letters here. 

REPORTS

• • Peer reviewed and published scientific research on 5G and 4G “small” cells: Everyone wants to see the science. Here is a list of studies hyperlinked to the pubmed abstract.
  • Re-Inventing Wires: The Future of Landlines and Networks: Critical Must read white paper on wired technology as the solution.
  • 5G, Fiber Optics the Law by Katie Singer 

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT REPORTS

• European Parliament Briefing Effects of 5G wireless communication on human health, (EHT PDF)
• Blackman C, Forge S. 5G Deployment: State of Play in Europe, USA, and Asia. Study for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies, European Parliament, Luxembourg, 2019.
• The European  Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks  (SCHEER ) issued a statement identifying 14 emerging issues to bring to the attention of the Commission services including 5G, E-cigarette and chronic diseases,  They prioritized 5G impact as “high.“Potential effects on wildlife of increases in electromagnetic radiation“
• Letter from oncologist Lennart Hardell MD & Colleagues

POLICY DOCUMENTS

• Ordinances on 4G/5G in US Cities that are protective and minimize human exposure. 
• Letters from Congress to the FCC about 5G and health. 
• International Actions to Halt 5G
• Wireless Silent Spring by Cindy Russell MD is an article published in the Santa Clara Medical Association Magazine on the environmental impacts of 5G.
• 12/ 20/2018 “Summary of Proposed FCC Small Cell Order”: A critically important explanation by Lawyer Mark Del Bianco with Q and A on the FCC order that strips local authority.
• 10/2018 Memo: “Federal Law Does Not Prohibit the County from Imposing Stricter Procedural Requirements on Wireless Facilities Than on Other Pole Attachments”
• Telecom Powergrab has developed a toolkit for residents with a sample small cell code, factsheets and more.
• Policy Report:  Small Cell Facilities in Boulder, CO: Planning Ahead for an Evolving Legal RegimeJune 4, 2019. The primary goal of this report is to inform decision makers in the City of Boulder  as well as other interested governments, about how to most effectively regulate small cell facilities in accordance with local, state, and federal laws. As discussed in the Report, local governments would be wise to employ proactive legal tactics since many of the applicable laws and rules are in flux.
• 5G Violates Human Rights and Environmental Law States Legal Opinion out of Denmark  “Establishing and activating a 5G-network — as it is currently described — will contravene current human and environmental laws enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights, the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, EU regulations. After the Copenhagen 5G-conference in the Danish Parliament, Lawyer Christian F. Jensen of Bonnor Lawyers released a  75-page document  on the human health and environmental impacts of 5G. Download the document at: http://bit.ly/5GlegalDenmark

LIABILITY ISSUES

• Law Office of Harry Lehmann to Marin County Supervisors on Limiting the Scope of Marins Financial Risk on 5G ,February 21, 2017
• Law Office of Harry Lehman “5G Government Liability and the Long Con”  April 2, 2018
• Letter from Law Office of Harry Lehmann “Mass casualties are likely in District 10 from passage of 648”, July 6, 2017
• Letter from Law Office Of Harry Lehmann to State of California, “Liability for Damage From Microwave Radiation Exposure Sustained by Senate Bill 649 Will Be Shifted to California State”, July 19, 2017
• Letter from Law Office of Harry Lehmann, “SB 649 will  disproportionately effect the poor in California”, August 24, 2017“The attached letter of August 10th , in response to a Consultant’s question, explains in legal terms why the State remains liable, both directly and derivatively, for the same liabilities to which the cities and counties will be exposed from implementation of SB 649.”

Videos and Films Movie Picks on Cell Towers and Cell Phones

• Burt Wolfs “Short Guide to Cell Phone Safety” and “The Dangers of Radiofrequency Radiation” 
• Microwaves, Science & Lies:  Documentary
• Generation Zapped 

CBC Investigative Reports: Award winning investigative CBC reporter Wendy Mesley

• Cell Phones and Industry Involvement 
• Cell Phones and Insurance Companies
• The secret inside your cellphone 

INDUSTRY INFLUENCE

Scientific analyses show industry funding can and does influence research on radiofrequency radiation. Please take the time to review each of these  studies and to review the documentation provided by experts. This webpage has published citations on the influence of industry and vested interests (scroll down). Please also be aware of these investigative reports on industry influence which summarize the issue:

• The Harvard Press Book “Captured Agency: How the Federal Communications Commission is Dominated by the Industries it Presumably Regulates”by Norm Alster documents  the financial ties between the US federal government’s  Federal communications Commission (FCC) and how, as a result, the wireless industry has bought inordinate access to—and power over—a major US regulatory agency. Read that here.
• “The Disinformation Campaign—And Massive Radiation Increase—Behind The 5G Rollout” by Mark Hertsgaard And Mark Dowie in  The Nation April 23, 2018
• Investigate Europe Reports 2019: 5G The Mass Experiment (Part 1)and  How Much is  Safe? Finances Effect Research (Part 2)This two part investigative report in 2019 covers the 5G rollout and the history of industry influenced research on EMFS. The journalists identified a group of fourteen scientists who either helped create, or defend, the EMF exposure guidelines disseminated by ICNIRP, a non- governmental organization (NGO) based in Germany. ICNIRP’s self-selected members argue that the thousands of peer-reviewed studies that have found harmful biologic or health effects from chronic exposure to non-thermal levels of EMF are insufficient to warrant stronger safety guidelines.  “The ICNIRP Cartel: Who’s Who in the EMF Research World,”an interactive graphic developed by Investigate Europe (German ICNIRP Cartel).
• EHT’s  Webpage with links to published research in industry influence. Industry Influence to EMF Science