Residents of Bandar Sri Pinang are opposing the construction of 5G towers in the Karpal Singh Drive area before the health impact of this new technology can be properly studied.
The Malaysian Nuclear Agency director-general, Dr Mohd Abd Wahab Yusof, has reportedly said a thorough study on the impact of 5G technology will be conducted at the end of this year. In other words, the risk of 5G technology on human has not yet been determined.
More 5G towers will be built closer to inhabited residential areas. Despite this, Nuclear Malaysia research officer Roha Tukimin has reportedly declared that exposure to 5G non-ionising radiation will not affect health.
Recently, Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow hastily announced the plan to roll out new 5G technology starting in this month. According to him, Penang is one of the six states in the country to lead in the provision of infrastructure for 5G technology, which relies heavily on small towers installed together 5G antennas across the state.
5G towers approved before gathering feedback
Prior to the chief minister’s announcement, hundreds of concerned residents in Bandar Sri Pinang, Penang, signed a petition against the proposed installation of two 5G towers.
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The towers were to be built along Karpal Singh Drive, a popular public recreational space in Penang and high-density residential area.
The residents were shocked to learn that the Penang Island City Council had hastily approved two 18m-tall towers in June 2019 before gathering feedback from nearby residents.
A telecommunications company organised a dialogue session on 18 September 2019, attended by Jelutong MP RSN Rayer and Sungai Pinang state assembly member Lim Siew Khim, together with Ministry of Health and Nuclear Malaysia officials. At the session, the residents were promised a win-win solution: relocation of the towers to a site 600m away from the residential area.
After the dialogue session, however, the residents were shocked to learn from the city council that the rolling out of the 5G test towers in the residential area would be carried out regardless of the residents’ protest.
The unacceptable approval of and hasty rollout of the 5G towers shows that the local government has gone against the essence of the democratic process championed by the Pakatan Harapan government. It has totally ignored the wishes of the rakyat.
The residents are completely shocked and dumbfounded and feel betrayed. The government has disregarded not only the residents’ voices but also their health concerns, especially when the effects of the radiation emitted by 5G technology are still controversial.
5G rollout: We are not laboratory mice
According to scientists, 5G will massively increase the microwave and millimetre waves (radiation in the millimetre band). It will also use new frequencies that have not been evaluated by experts who are independent of industry.
Already, 253 scientists and doctors around the world have recommended a moratorium on the rollout of 5G until potential hazards to human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent of industry.
The concerned residents strongly oppose the proposed 5G towers because they do not want to be treated like laboratory mice. They question the validity of the current safety standards set by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), which is set at 1,000 microwatts per sq metre at 2G Hz frequency and above – the radio spectrum used for 5G – which is an outdated international guideline.
Federal government adopting outdated 1998 ICNIRP guidelines
The residents feel the Malaysia federal government has adopted outdated 1998 International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection guidelines.
Numerous scientific studies have shown that the ubiquitous and increasing exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF) generated by electric and wireless devices affects humans at levels well below most international and national guidelines.
Therefore, the 247 scientists engaged in the study of the biological and health effects of non-ionising EMF around the world had in 2015 called for protection from non-ionising EMF exposure before the additional 5G rollout.
The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified wireless radio frequency as a possible human carcinogen, a substance capable of causing cancer in living tissue.
Scientists have declared that cell towers, sources of wireless
In Malaysia too, research on 5G has not yet been done, and the risks have not yet been examined. But the government has already hastily announced the rolling out of 5G.
Apply precautionary approach to 5G
Many recent scientific studies have shown that residents near cell towers are prone to cancer risk, cellular stress, increase in harmful free radicals, genetic damage, structural and functional changes to the reproductive system, learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders and other negative impacts on general wellbeing.
Together with our sisters and brothers in Switzerland and other concerned citizens of the world, we, concerned Penang residents, too want our government at all levels to impose a moratorium on 5G technology being installed in residential areas until its risks can be properly assessed.
Contact person: Ng Tien Eng, representing residents who oppose the proposed 5G towers in the Karpal Singh Drive area.
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Yes 5g is war on human … to finish people on earth.. agenda 21
If you ask the western world, 5G rolled out from European and American is not harmful but China made will be dangerous…ha…ha…only stupid fools will believe them.
I have a chat with the Huawei Vice President recently about the issue of radio frequency affecting our cell DNA.
5G is operating on millimeter wave which is short and fast. There will be many, many mini transmitters all over the place inorder to have complete coverage of 5G.
WHO classification RF as carcinogen is with mixed results. Meaning it’s inconclusive and the guidelines are still in effect.
Saying 1998 ICNIRP guidelines obsolete is ridiculous. The only concern raised regarding the guidelines is, it has not been updated with the newer wireless networking technology. But if the new technology is still within the guidelines there is no need to update it. Unless there is empirical evidence that shows it otherwise.
Another study by physicist Dr. Bill P. Curry is alarming but flawed. The study used an isolated cell, which we humans have skin to protect it. Unless you are using skincare with mercury which makes your skin thinner, that is your own problem.
Go back live in jungle and cave…
They should live in the cave. Even visible light radiation is higher than 5G. Lol
Irony… They all using smart phones wasn’t it?
Stupid illiterates. Trying to stop the earth from spinning. 🐷🤡🐷🤡
This is people natural behaviour – do not know what they actual want, people said something not good, jus follow said no good too. They complaint slow internet speed. N now, manage to provide high speed internet facilities. They have concerned. Besides of these, if new high tech phone released, they are going to buy it. Really don’t understand what they want.
5G is not workable because it needs LOS for full speed, just hiding under tree or at the corner also reduce speed.
It will getting worse when running.
Give them iphones…. 🙊🙊
Is it me or are Penang people whining quite a bit these days…
First they say no… But when new 5G models come out they’re the ones who camp outside the store waiting for it to open
Aiya, they want the cake and eat it too?
Later on, same people will complain to their telcos and MCMC about ciput internet speed. When told that its because the same people disallow 5G coverage in their residential areas, they will then stomp their feet and wave their hands telling telcos to put up the infra at neighbouring residential areas. And force telcos to waive their charges because their Internet speed like ciput compared to their friends’ houses. Never ending one from 2G to 3G to 4G/LTE. Sigh. This is absolutely not made up. Welcome to Malaysia, land of whining opportunists. #pathetic
Hi aliran admin, if you think the radiation caused by the telco towers is hazardous to your health then throw away your mobile phones into the river & start writing on papers. Even for you to upload this artical through online you need internet connection from the Telco providers that your using. So stop being conservative & start thinking rationally.