Will Alfred NY move to reduce microwave exposure to residents with federal funding?
By Frederick Sinclair, pictured is former President Biden signing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
This is the image evoked in the Mayor’s Alfred Sun* article on August 28th. It spotlights the village of Alfred entering into the federal and state Thriving Community Program. Federal and state funding and technical assistance is targeted to “not only modernize our infrastructure, but also to set a new standard for collaboration, innovation, and resilience.” These are indeed noble and needed goals for our community. Signed into law in November 2021, the federal program allocated 550 billion dollars for infrastructure development nationwide. Initially, technical assistance, with help in securing grants and funding opportunities, will help manifest a vision and support projects that “matter most to our residents.” Reading of last week’s article in the Alfred Sun outlines several areas and the particulars of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). It is highly recommended that we, as members of the community, read, chew on and digest it thoroughly.
*Editors note: The Alfred Sun is not affiliated with this digital publication. The Alfred Sun is the last print newspaper in Allegany County published from Alfred NY by David Snyder.
Apart from the particulars of implementing BIL, the process ignites community engagement to set priorities, establish goals, and seek funding, as well as solicits active public participation. Making it ours will help ensure success in “building the foundation for a future where opportunity, safety and connection are within reach for all.” In previous Alfred Sun articles, an ambitious project has been suggested that should be a cornerstone in that foundation. It involves establishing municipal based access to hardwired internet and communications. It would provide access points in every home, business, farm, apartment, and dorm room with directly wired fiber-based internet access and docking stations for mobile devices. Municipalities across the nation are taking advantage of and demonstrating the benefits of this opportunity to provide their communities with the fastest, inexpensive, secure, future proof, and healthy (non-microwave based) access to the internet. Municipal broadband is being shown to be a true solution to closing the ‘digital divide’ while implementing an economic development tool that increases property value and also open the door for remote work environments. Such municipal run infrastructure is creating local jobs and providing revenues to municipalities, over and above the costs to install and run the systems. This is also a viable solution to the problem of swelling property tax burdens in the Village and Township. Such a system will greatly reduce and control future exposure to wireless microwave radiation. Some of the billions being hoarded by big telecom can be diverted into many benefits for our home community. Successes are found in Chattanooga Tennessee, several cities in California and Utah as well as multiple targeted counties across New Hampshire.
All too often, along with the concepts for new communities, comes the integration of technologies that are rushed into without regard for public health and safety. An example is the recent blanketing of homes, businesses, apartments and most buildings in the Village and Town of Alfred with digital ‘Smart Meters’. They are touted to benefit the electrical grid. Each meter, however, is now broadcasting intense (range ½ mile) microwave signals, thousands of times per day, to the utility provider. Some apartments and business locations have several meters broadcasting, creating cumulative levels of exposure. Residents and neighbors are being subjected to microwaves that are known to affect the function of biological systems in humans, pets, flora and fauna. These exposures have been shown to be especially harmful to developing children. Digital ‘Smart’ meters have poor surge protection and can reduce the efficiency of appliances and equipment, while costing us more to run the meter and transmit data. ‘Dirty Electricity’ or, harmonics from Smart Meters can induce electromagnetic fields and harmful emissions within building wiring systems. The Village has considered installing similar digital microwave broadcasting water meters. Digital natural gas metering won’t be far behind. Add these wireless microwave sources, to the Wi-Fi in every home, and apartment, cars, offices and dorm rooms, and the 11 microwave towers servicing the immediate village and the flood of ‘smart’ appliances, and we we find ourselves mindlessly trading our health and that of future generations, for endlessly expanding wireless microwave emitting technologies.
Warnings of unforeseen consequences, from microwave exposure, have routinely been ignored. The FCC exposure guidelines have been shown to not be protective of humans and especially children and, the DC Circuit Federal Court of Appeals has ordered their revision. The impacts of our approaches to this ‘New Era’ must be evaluated, first and foremost, in the light of public health and safety. We not only have our own wellbeing as residents in hand, we are responsible, as hosts, to nurture the health, safety and wellbeing of students, entrusted to us by their families. This must be a guiding principle of any ‘New Era’ environment we create and maintain. Without it, it will foster an even more dangerous, reckless abandon for technocracy, at the expense of a healthful living environment.
Note: Important supporting research and studies can be found at The Bioinitiative Report.org, Americans for Responsible Tech.org and Environmental Health Trust.org. This article has repeatedly reported on related topics and this author will continue to volunteer assistance in ushering in a New Era for Alfred N.Y.
Fred Sinclair is a Alfred NY based opinion writer with a keen interest in wireless and microwave technology and their unseen impact on his fellow life forms. You can reach him anytime, fpsinclair@yahoo.com
