Stop Mast on Chester Arms!

Might be a good idea to shed some light upon why phone masts are bad (to avoid being accused of NIMBYism). Here's what I found out after two minutes of lazy research:

In 2004, a study by German Federal Agency for Radiation Protection looked at whether people living within 400 metres of a mobile phone mast were more at risk of developing cancer than those who lived further away. Case histories of 1,000 patients between 1994 and 2004 were evaluated for the study. They discovered that people living within 400 metres of the mast in Naila had three times the risk of developing cancer than those living further away. This info from  http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20041118_naila.asp

A Dutch study found that people were likely to get headaches and nausea near 3-G masts. Source:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3157676.stm

Other info from:
Mast Sanity:  http://www.mastsanity.org/research.html

Incidentally, there's a TETRA mast in the town centre (near St Aldate's cop shop).
(See why TETRA's bad for your health:  http://www.tetrawatch.net/tetra/health.php.)

Knowledge is power 'n' all that...

I beg to differ...

I reckon this is hardcore nimbyism of the worst kind, and probably hypocrisy - I expect all of the objectors have a mobile phone, and are happy to use their phone all over Oxon - regardless of their supposed belief that masts are dangerous, and therefore happy to continue to act in a way which in their belief might be harming others.

This is about property prices, and not having an ugly black transmitter mast in deepest middle class Victoriana, which would probably knock a few grand off houses nearby.

I for one am sick of the weak mobile signals in Iffley Fields, and I am happy to have another mast nearby. Mobile phones are really useful, and socially liberating tools, even people on a low income can afford the much-lower-than-BT costs ... their widespread use is a good thing, unlike stinking cars.

I agree with the last comment. All that will happen if this protest succeeds is that the mast will get plonked somewhere else in Iffley Fields - probably in Donnington, where people don't organise as well. But I bet the people near the Chester Arms keep on using their mobile phones regardless! You can't have it both ways.