In a letter to Maria and Alan Palmer, Chairman Smitherman states that the Commission has studied the issue of possible health effects from exposure to magnetic fields related to transmission lines. He says the Commission has concluded there is no conclusive link between potential health issues and exposure to electric and magnetic fields. He states […]
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Intervenor Expresses Concern About Effect of EMI on Pacemaker
An intervenor in Docket No. 37248, AEP’s application for a CCN in Childress County, states that the proposed project “would directly affect the ability of the pacemaker to work.” She filed a letter from Biotronik, the manufacturer of her Protos DR/CLS pacemaker. The intervenor lives near a substation and an existing 69 kV transmission line, […]