HereWeGoAgain
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I’m not sure large scale hydro-electric dams in Labrador are the answer at all. They’re very destructive environmentally, both in terms of building the infrastructure, and flooding the land above the dam to build up water pressure for the turbines. And then there’s the issues around the transmission lines from such a remote area.
Cancer rates for people living near these big hydro lines are high. We looked at a house which back onto a hydro transmission corridor in Toronto years ago and just standing in the back yard 50 feet from the power lines my body was vibrating from the energy those lines were throwing off. I was feeling nauseous within minutes. The agent said this was affecting potential sales of the property. No doubt.
Thousands of miles of these corridors are needed to get that power from the dam to the US, which, as the article stated, involves the destruction of 43 wetlands between Labrador and the US.
So while production of the hydro doesn’t create carbon emissions per de, the infrastructure such production requires is so environmentally damaging as to negate the benefits of low carbon emissions.
Power Lines - Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Safety from Safe Space Protection
Ya know I heard that before, even people just living under high voltage wires saying cancer was higher but is their any scientific proof of it or just a myth, how does high voltage lines cause cancer???
Studies have confirmed the higher rates of cancer and they’re quoted in the link I posted.
The electro-magnetic field around these transmission lines is said to disrupt cell growth. Several studies from different countries have found similar correlations.
The US government commissioned a study which was completed in 2006 but they never published the results. One can’t help but wonder why not. If the study found no correlation, you’d think they’d be shouting it from the rooftops.
Your link is from a company that sells supposed "protection" from non-ionizing EMF's. forgive me if I don't bend over backwards to believe them.
This link is from a government website and they are far more ambivalent over the whole thing.
Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer
I would be far more suspicious of their claims too if I hadn’t experienced the effect of the EMF myself. Within 5 minutes of my arrival at that property, I was so sick I had to leave. My husband had to pull the car over so I could vomit on the way home.
This was 35 years ago before I had any idea that there were issues with living next to tower lines. This wasn’t my having an “expected reaction”, to something I’d been told previously, because I had no idea.
I will also add, neither my husband nor the realtor had the same reaction. Both felt the same vibrating sensation from the EMF, but neither of them became ill or had to leave.
We ride power line trails all the time and I've never seen anyone get sick from it nor has anyone said anything about feeling vibration.
Maybe you ate some bad egg salad or something?