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Telecommunication Towers
USJ23 Neighbourhood

     
 

03/01/2002 - We receive a letter from MPSJ dated 26/12/2001 in which reference is made to our 07/12/2001 request for the telecommunication Tower to be dismantled. We are informed that they have given notice to the telecommunication company to have the tower removed before 31/03/2002. (there was a typo on the letter from MPSJ in which the year 2001 was indicated)
Read the letter from MPSJ here.

 
     
 

 
     
 

27/12/2001 - After some consideration and confirmation, we doubt that the feedback that we  received yesterday holds any truth.

According to a resident who is in the Telecommunication Business, the Tower was not there during the construction of USJ23. It was there when he got his house keys in 1999 and he did make a complain to Sime UEP about the Tower.

Think about this: why would they have constructed the tower back in 1989 when during those days there were hardly any 900/1800 mobile systems around? In those days it was the ATUR. And in 1989 the area around USJ23 was a plantation.

Looks like the person who wrote the feedback is not sure what he/she wrote or is just plain not truthful.

All this does not deflect from the fact that it was illegally constructed and should be removed immediately.

 
     
 

 
     
 

26/12/2001 - Our webmaster received a feedback sent in by an informed member of the public about the telecommunication tower. Read the feedback here

According to the feedback, it seems that the Tower was already illegally (so far as we know) constructed way back in 1989 and was fully commission in 1990.
As such did Sime UEP or MPPJ/MPSJ take it into consideration (or did they not know of it's existence in the first place?) when approval of the plans for USJ23 were drawn up?

Are we to assume that the houses in USJ23 within a radius of 150 metres from the tower, were illegally constructed by Sime UEP and approved by MPPJ/MPSJ?

Why is it that some of our USJ23 neighbours have to live with mistakes made by a few irresponsible members of large organisations? Where is the justice?

 
     
 

 
     
 

15/12/2001 - One of our Resident wrote a letter to The Star complaining about the lack of action by MPSJ with regards to the removal of the illegal Telecommunication located next to USJ23.

Are we to assume that what is legal is legal and what is illegal needs to be verified as illegal before action can be taken. If this was the case why come up with Government guidelines and by-laws in the first place.

This "never mind" attitude is known and taken advantage by many large organisations. We see it happen all around us, it really defies logic.

 
     
 

 
     
 

07/12/2001 - A request is sent to the President of MPSJ to issue a letter to the owner of the Telecommunication Tower next to USJ23, to have them remove it immediately. Read our request here.

 
     
 

 
     
 

02/11/2001 - We send our letters of concern to Celcom and Maxis requesting that they dismantle the telecommunication towers as soon as possible.

 
     
 

 
     
 

30/10/2001 - The Star Newspaper publishes an article, in which the Yang Di Pertua of MPSJ, Ahmad Fuad Bin Ismail repeated what was contained in his Official Letter to us. read the article here.

 
     
 

 
     
 

28/10/2001 - We receive a 2 page official reply addressed to our Chairman, from the Yang Di Pertua of MPSJ, Ahmad Fuad Bin Ismail, dated 22/10/2001. We appreciate very much the reply.
read the Yang Di Pertua's Official reply here.

 
     
 

 
     
 

15/10/2001 - Our letter of concern together with newspaper clippings and hardcopies of our web pages "Telecommunication Towers" are personally handed to the MPSJ Office in Subang Jaya at 11.30am.

 
     
 

 
     
  13/10/2001 - Our letter of concern is faxed to the
   
Yang Dipertua Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya (MPSJ)
Tan Sri Dato Nijhar Ahli Parlimen Subang Jaya
Dato Lee Hwa Beng ADUN Subang Jaya

read what we wrote here.

An article also appeared on The Star in which it is indicated that only Towers that follow the guidelines will be allowed to stand. Read the article here : Council shelves decision on Towers.

 
     
 

 
     
 

12/10/2001 - An urgent meeting of the Residents involved was called on the evening of 12/10/2001 and it was unanimously agreed that whilst we would not exaggerate the matter out of proportion, we would register our complain with the authorities accordingly.

 
       
   
       
 

 
     
  10/10/2001 - We made some measurements and look at the shocking results. These houses are way too close to the transmission tower.  
     
Resident's House House No. Distance from Transmission Tower
Kumaresan 25, USJ 23/3 50 metres
Richard Khoo 30, USJ 23/3A 60 metres
Jamil Bin Abdul Hamid 29, USJ 23/3A 80 metres
Beh Yong Hock 28, USJ 23/3B 110 metres
Nge Kwang Tean 27, USJ 23/3B 130 metres
     
 

They are but only the corner houses, what about the other link houses right next to these? What will happen if we continue to live so close to these magnetic fields and what of our children who are exposed to this type of danger from such a young age.

 
     
 

 
     
 

06/10/2001 - We have seen in recent weeks residents nationwide, highlighting their worries about the telecommunication towers when they are especially close to their homes. Do we have a source of worry too?

 
     
   
     

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We see conflicting reports in the newspaper by people in authority? The MPSJ president Ahmad Fuad Ismail has being reported in the Star Newspaper on 28/09/2001 as saying that no one has ever submitted an application to erect any Telecommunication Tower, so we now know that they are all illegal.

We are repeatedly told by bureaucrats whenever we bring up our concerns, that all the necessary technical requirements were observed and approvals from the relevant authorities were obtained before any such development, now we find out that no technical requirements were observed because no approvals were ever  obtained.

Look at it this way, the Telecommunication Tower next to USJ23 is less than 150 meters from Kumaresan's House and even more frightening than that (no offense to Kumaresan) is that it is located right next to the Petronas Gas Valve Station. Did someone look into the implications of placing the Tower so close?????????

 
     
 

 
     
 

Maybe we are a bit paranoid, but as we look deeper into the well-being of our surrounding neighbourhood and start to find out that things are not what they seem, wouldn't you be too?

 
     
  Here are but some of the reports we have gathered from the Press, you be the judge!  
     
Date

Newspaper Article

06/10/2001 Transmission towers radiate fear
06/10/2001 Penang probing EMW emissions
05/10/2001 Ban on structures atop private houses
04/10/2001 Telecom towers put up illegally
03/10/2001 Commission studying health effects of transmission towers
03/10/2001 Ampang folk worry about their health
29/09/2001 Illegal transmission towers to go soon
28/09/2001 No one applied to erect towers
26/09/2001 Transmission towers have to be 150m away
14/09/2001 Towering worry for residents
     

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