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ELF Topples Radio Station Towers in Washington

ELF Press Office | 05.09.2009 01:06 | Ecology | World

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September 4, 2009

Earth Liberation Front Topples Radio Station Towers in Snohomish County, WA





Everett, WA: Two radio station towers were torn down early Friday by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) in the Lord's Hills valley in Snohomish County, WA. The towers, owned by station KRKO, have been a source of controversy for years. A sign left at the scene claimed responsibility by the ELF.

" Due to the health and environmental risks associated with radio waves emitted from the towers, we applaud this act by the ELF," stated Jason Crawford, a spokesperson for the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office. "When all legal channels of opposition have been exhausted, concerned citizens have to take action into their own hands to protect life and the planet."

For the past eight years, opponents have waged a legal battle against the towers, arguing that AM radio waves cause adverse health affects including a higher rate of cancer, harm to wildlife, and that the signals have been interfering with home phone and intercom lines.

Last year, the first four towers were erected by KRKO after numerous hearings and appeals. KRKO plans to build two more towers to boost the station's broadcasting power.

" We have to weigh our priorities and the local ecosystem in Everett, along with the local residents, do not need additional sports news radio station towers that come at the expense of reduced property values and harmful radio waves," Crawford continued. "We sincerely hope that people continue to take direct action to stop the threats to human health, wildlife and the planet."

The E.L.F. is an international underground organization that uses direct action in the form of economic sabotage to stop the systematic exploitation and destruction of the planet. Since its inception in North America in 1996, the ELF has inflicted well over $150 million in damages to corporations and governmental agencies that are profiting from the destruction of the Earth.

The North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office is a legal news agency representing the earth liberation movement. The NAELFPO reports on the covert direct actions taken by the Earth Liberation Front in defense of the planet. Targeting deforestation, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), urban sprawl, automobile and industry pollution, and other threats to the natural environment, the Earth Liberation Front uses nonviolent economic sabotage to compel industries and governments to reshape their environmentally destructive policies.

ELF Press Office
- e-mail: info@elfpressoffice.org
- Homepage: http://www.elfpressoffice.org

Comments

Display the following 11 comments

  1. Video — Until All Are Free TV
  2. total nonsense — teccie
  3. Links to evidence that radio masts cause damage? — eco-geek
  4. fight the power — FlavourFlav - I wore the clock so you could decentralise it!
  5. Practice and theory — Danny
  6. info from the "experts" — @
  7. Radio waves obey an inverse square law — eco-geek
  8. radio dangers in context — teccie
  9. Shouldn't this lot be called the Flat Earth Liberation Front? — Radio Head
  10. @teccie — Danny
  11. Another radio mast toppled on the same day in Pennsylvania — anon

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