[...] "I can see from my tractor that they are all skin and bones. It's enough to make you cry." On the other side of the small road that winds along his property, a short distance from the town of Mazeyrat-d'Allier, in the Haute-Loire department, Frédéric Salgues can spot what he considers to be the cause of his cows' problems, less than 300 meters away: a cell phone tower commissioned by Orange on June 28, 2021.
[...] On May 23, the administrative court of Clermont-Ferrand ordered the 4G antenna's cessation of operation for a period of two months.
This measure, unprecedented in France, should become effective within three months. The objective is to carry out an expert assessment in order to "establish a potential causal link between the behavior of the cattle and this antenna." The administrative court highlights "a significant drop in the quality and quantity of milk produced, a serious disruption in the behavior of the herd and its voluntary denutrition and abnormally high deaths.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @01:30AM (1 child)
I'm not sure you're going to find that easily documented anywhere as an installation SOP. Perhaps one could find it in a court case proceedings, but I doubt AT&T says "hey, when we put up a new tower, we don't turn it on for a while so that we can smoke out the bastards who will probably try to sue us later for something."
I can tell you that was a common recommendation to amateur radio operators (from other amateur radio operators) that when they want to put up a new long wire or tower, to not hook up the transmitter for a while. It wasn't unusual back in the day that when a new antenna went up in a neighborhood for everyone thinking that their TV reception fadeouts were because of that damn guy with the radio.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @05:48AM
That way if the guy with the amateur radio is really what's causing the problem it'll be harder for people to correctly diagnose it since the problem started months after the amateur radio antenna went up.