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11/24/2009
What organizers call "The Mother of All Power Meetings" took place Tuesday night at Rexall Place. It was large but not quite what they hoped for.
Estimates put attendance at the meeting in the 2,000 to 2,500 people range. Before the meeting RETA's VP Technical said he'd be disappointed if less than 3,000 people showed up.
Attendees wrote on banners, filled out voting ballots and signed petitions to have lines buried underground.
There was plenty of support for Responsible Electricity Transmission for Albertans (RETA) and their battle to have the Heartland Transmission lines buried underground. Experts on the health and financial dangers of above ground transmission lines spoke to the audience - as did representatives from EPCOR and Alta Link and members of RETA.
Environmental specialist, Dr. Magda Havas, told the crowd what a difference going underground makes. "If they're buried there's no electric field; that's completely shielded by the earth," she says. "The magnetic field is much reduced in the sense of how far it goes out. There's no corona effect which causes high frequencies on the wire and you can't put cell phone antennas on them which then contribute to radio frequency radiations."
RETA says this is not about the group asking that transmission lines not be placed in their neighbourhood. They say it is about having the lines buried wherever they are placed. (ly, ccg)
On the Net:
RETAsite.WordPress.com
HeartlandTransmission.ca
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