Dr Damian Wojcik on LED STREET LIGHTS – The Major Health Concerns |

Thank-you to Dr Damian Wojcik, Clinical Director at the Northland Environmental Health Clinic in Whangarei, for giving this presentation in front of the camera. It is similar to a presentation he gave before members of the Kaipara District Council in Dargaville on November the 27th, 2019, (where coincidentally, there was a power failure when he started to speak. ) Here is an article regarding his Council presentation: Northland LED streetlight retrofitting moratorium call, https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1912/S00018/northland-led-streetlight-retrofitting-moratorium-call.htm

As he points out at the end of his presentation, while LED street lights have been marketed as being “environmentally friendly,” “energy saving” or “smart” by their proponents, like any new technology, the health and safety aspects of LED lights should have been thoroughly investigated prior to spending time and money installing them. After all, it is not smart to spend money on infrastructure that could negatively affect wildlife or make people sick.

Link to view video on Brighteon.com: https://www.brighteon.com/ce5f43b4-22a6-44ac-9cc6-edaab8430c58

The introduction of 5G hazardous technologies across towns, is being done in total disregard of the large body of scientific evidence which shows how harmful microwave radiation is to human health and the environment.

References mentioned by Dr Wojcik in his presentation:

American Medical Association: “LED street lights may cause road hazards and obesity”, http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/news/american-medical-association-l7ed-st7reet-l7ights/

Effects of LED streetlights on autistic son led Damien McNamara on dark sky campaign, https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/116865102/effects-of-led-streetlights-on-autistic-son-led-damien-mcnamara-on-dark-sky-campaign

NZ Royal Society’s evidence summary on blue light’s health effects: https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Blue-light-Aotearoa-evidence-summary.pdf

Dr Wojcik speaks of some of the health effects associated with exposure to microwave radiation and refers to what happened in Gateshead, in the north-east of England, when ‘state-of-the art’ LED street lights were introduced. Campaigner, Mark Steele, documented a humanitarian crisis after the new street lights were installed: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5409921/Residents-enduring-stillbirths-street-lamps.html

Article which analyses Gateshead situation at link: https://www.5g.org.nz/2018/06/16/nosebleeds-insomnia-and-stillbirths-in-town-with-state-of-the-art-wireless-street-lamps-implications-for-5g/

“Blue light” of LED streetlights linked to breast and prostate cancer, https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_655460_en.html

Evaluating the Association between Artificial Light-at-Night Exposure and Breast and Prostate Cancer Risk in Spain, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6071739/

High Frequency Voltage Transients Associated With Increased Cancer Incidence in Teachers in California School, https://www.emfsolutions.ca/pdf/Milham_Morgan_2008.pdf

The electronics in fluorescent bulbs and light emitting diodes (LED), rather than ultraviolet radiation, cause increased malignant melanoma incidence in indoor office workers and tanning bed users. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-electronics-in-fluorescent-bulbs-and-light-than-Milham-Stetzer/ea6089585f4b07e05bd29787abd86cb0c841bd7d

Red zone study look at impact of street lights on insects, https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/378809/red-zone-study-look-at-impact-of-street-lights-on-insects

Quantifying the attractiveness of broad‐spectrum street lights to aerial nocturnal insects, https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2664.13004

New Zealand’s more than 2000 moth species at odds with some LED street lights, https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/95124019/new-zealands-more-than-2000-moth-species-at-odds-with-led-street-lights