Google, SpaceX Facing License Opposition From Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Community
Google and SpaceX are facing increased pushback to their experimental license proposals from opponents citing health worries tied to altitude-based microwave radiation-emitting projects. "Widely available fast Internet access is a goal that can be safely attained using various forms of…
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cabled connectivity," Global Union Against Radiation Deployment from Space said in informal objections filed Friday (see here and here) with the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology. The GUARDS filing included a letter dated Jan. 12 that the group said it had submitted to the European Commission raising concerns about the growth of wireless networks and the "millions of people in the developed world [who] have already become functionally disabled due to the electromagnetically polluted environments produced by terrestrially based wireless communications infrastructures. With the deployment of Project Loon and other space-based wireless communications projects proposed or underway, and Google's widespread deployment of microwave radiation, such persons will have no place to go." GUARDS also filed similar Google and SpaceX objections directly to OET last year (see here and here). So far this month, SpaceX also has seen four informal objections from individuals raising similar health claims, while Google has received seven. The companies didn't comment Tuesday.