--- Russell McMahon <apptech@paradise.net.nz> wrote:

> The result may well be a genuine one.
> The reason should be worth looking for but MAY not relate to the
> power 
> lines directly.
> 
> 
One thing that I've noticed is that in the past some power companies
used certain chemical substances along power lines to reduce the amount
of 'clearing' they need to keep trees etc from growing beneath them. 
In 1981 a power company used essentially agent orange (it was agent
orange actually just a different concentration than they used in
vietnam) as a defoilient in my area around power lines.  That year my
fathers farm experienced 10 still births 3 dead animals (the herd was
young and the deaths were quite mysterious). This is above the normal
for that area (whatever normal is).  I myself a year and a half later
became diabetic.  I doubt the power lines had diddly to do with those
problems.  We moved away in 1982 in any case and I was diagnosed as
having type 1 diabetis.  Related or not, none of my relatives have been
diagnosed as diabetic, ever.

So really the probability is high that anything they might have used to
suppress brush or in construction etc. near the power lines is likely
to have increased this risk more than anything.  I think people tend to
be careless about how they use things in general.

This isn't an arguement it's just a note that this is more likely the
cause then high voltage EMF waves. :)



Stephen R. Phillips was here
Please be advised what was said may be absolutely wrong, and hereby this disclaimer follows.  I reserve the right to be wrong and admit it in front of the entire world.

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