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Tempe neighbours fear cell tower Microwaves from proposed tower concern
Tessa Holloway tholloway@nsnews.com
RESIDENTS of the Tempe Heights area of North Vancouver are broadcasting their concerns over a proposed cell tower slated for their neighbourhood.
Communications giant Rogers proposes to erect a 41metre pole that will hold up to six panel antennas and one round dish antenna on the Highway 1 right of way at the end of Tempe Glen Drive. have your say at nsnews.com
Across the street from the proposed site is the park where Ralph Johnstone takes his grandchildren to play, and he’s worried that scientists might not fully understand the impact the microwave frequencies in the area of the tower will have on the kids on the playground. “Way back when X-rays were kind of an unknown, eventually it turned out that was pretty NEWS photo Mike Wakefield bad (for people),” he said. “We don’t want to be sitting here RALPHJohnstone’scellphonemayworkbetterwhennewantennasareinstalledonatowerinhisTempeHeightsneighbourhoodinNorthVancouver, finding out that that’s really bad but the location — near where Johnstone is standing — overlooks a playground and he is concerned about the effect of microwaves. stuff.” Johntone has delivered a petition with 74 signatures on it to Rogers, raising concerns about the sightliness, the effect on property values and the perceived lack of consultation with most homeowners in the area. “Everybody from just Tempe Knoll there headed north is going Jane Seyd published in October 2007 that also detailed allegations by Wilson’s to have a grandstand view of the tower,” he said. “Everybody we jseyd@nsnews.com father-in-law Bill Lougheed that Wilson had exaggerated his business spoke to was totally opposed to it.” successes, that Wilson and his wife owed Lougheed millions of dollars and that Lougheed felt Wilson was unfit for political office. Rogers sent a public notification to homes within a radius three THE Province newspaper says it will appeal a B.C. At the time, Wilson’s wife Kelly was locked in an acrimonious times the height of the tower as required by legislation, as well as Supreme Court judge’s decision ordering a reporter battle with her father over her late mother Norma Lougheed’s some beyond that scope. However, Johnstone’s home wasn’t within to hand over the name of a source who provided estate. that radius and he said only a handful of those he spoke to had damaging information about then-West Vancouver The allegations in the front page Province article essentially received a package. MP Blair Wilson in 2007. spelled the end of Wilson’s political career. After the article was Rogers spokeswoman Sara Holland said the site was one of On Dec. 31, Justice Paul Williamson ordered reporter Elaine published, Wilson was forced to resign from the Liberal caucus. He several identified by the company that could improve service in a poorly served area along the Trans Canada Highway and the Tempe O’Connor to give up the name of the person who gave her a copy ran in the next federal election as a Green Party candidate and lost. Wilson was not charged following the Elections Act audit, which neighbourhood, but the other locations were turned down by the of an anonymous report alleging Wilson had broken the Elections concluded he had only made some minor errors in reporting. landowners — in this case the City of North Vancouver — and the Act by not listing campaign expenses properly. Those allegations — also sent anonymously to the Elections Act See Tower page 5 Commissioner and a political blogger — became part of a story See Source page 3
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