#691: RE: Post #687: Insider comments re: ABC Toowong
From Lachlan Mudge:
If possible, please send my thanks to the person responsible for this
submission (#687). It’s great to hear from someone with a sound knowledge base
saying the types of things we’ve all been thinking about and suspecting
for years.
I would personally be willing to put a few hundred bucks towards the
performance of a full independent electromagnetic assessment of a
similar site, assuming one exists, using a calibrated spectrum analyzer,
electric/magnetic field meters for DC to low frequency and anything else
people feel might be necessary. I’m not sure if this interests you or
any of your colleagues, though I imagine there’d be a few similarly
employed people with an interest if we could locate them. I would think
that if a few other people came to the party with some dollars, then it
seems possible that a group could be put together to do this and get
some real results. Furthermore, future work with similar specifications
could also be performed in the same way (though properly funded) with
further potential learning (and possibly even OHS&W) outcomes. Any
information gained could be used to publish scientific papers, with
associated academic benefits ($ and knowledge).
I have a colleague here in SA with a calibrated spectrum analyzer who
could be funded to take his equipment on the road and do a component of
this sort of assessment, assuming a suitable site could be found in SA.
Unfortunately, as far as I know, his lab lacks the other equipment
required, though I assume we could find other people with this type of
capability, therefore it seems possible to me that a group could be
gathered together to do something like this.
If so, I would definitely encourage the involvement of unions in an EM
survey of a similar site, because as was apparently the case with
Toowong, the involvement of management could interfere and be
detrimental rather than beneficial. Please let me know if you think
this could be achieved, given any resources you know are available to
you. If this is just a pipe dream, then please feel free to disregard
the message.
All the best
Lachlan Mudge
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