Welcome. Join our mailing list by emailing us at the very secure address: CLEARWhidbey(at)protonmail.com.
We are a group of Whidbey Island citizens, coordinated by Mark Wahl, that have been sharing communications, activities, projects and meetings for about 3 years. It all began after one of our members had found he experienced acute health effects when being around his electronics then another member discovered that. unknown to all, so-called "smart meters" were planned for our whole island by the Puget Sound Energy (PSE) power company. This lead to investigations, leading to sobering discoveries about the electrosmog bath developing around us. This led to calling to others to join in developing knowledge and smart protections available to all citizens.
We kept hearing from various sources that electromagnetic waves are not as safe as the industry claims. We call ourselves CLEAR (Citizen League Encouraging Awareness of Radiation). With leadership from Mark Wahl we have educated ourselves about many aspects of the problem and are working to upgrade the wireless regulatory codes of first Langley then other Whidbey cities and the County itself. Our operating principle: emf microwaves are invisibly filling our airspaces without consent, and in effect are "the new second-hand smoke."
The tobacco industry fought for 35 years the scientific fact that passive smoking, breathing smoker's fumes, caused lung cancer. Finally in 2004 it was pronounced a cause, but only after the tobacco industry used the classic tactics now imitated by the wireless industry. These are 1) marginalize the critics--make them look like conspiracy theorists, whiners or outright kooks; 2) Buy scientists who will publish articles saying there is no harmful effect; 3) sew doubt: create misinformation and spin to soothe users and complicate all findings of harm; 4) undermine scientists' reputations who publish findings of harm; 5) continue to create attractive, addictive products that people won't want to give up; 6) pump money into all university research departments to deflect project priorities away from study of harm; 7) lobby and buy politicians who will resist regulation of the industry.
All of these moves are being used by the wireless industry to keep the public guessing, mute, or resigned about whether there is any health harm from cell phones, wifi, smart meters, 5G, etc. CLEAR's intent has been to educate Whidbey Island on various harms of their technology, prevent the upcoming planned spread of emf-radiating smart meters planned by PSE, and push back on the current industry overreach in foisting very harmful 5G internet-of-things on the public with no safety research.
Current accomplishments:
- Started as a project that grew to about 30 members in late 2017.
- Now in 2022 we have been growing our membership and mailing list, informing many on the island, and we are on the verge of having created, through one of the country's best lawyers, a new wireless regulatory code for Langley that we hope will be emulated by Island County and other Whidbey cities.
- Purchased some very accurate microwave, low frequency and dirty electricity meters; several members have trained using these while measuring our own houses as well as public settings.
- Allied with with local activists by maintaining a very visible EMF information booths at island gatherings. This website is also one of our successful projects.
- Sent incisive viewpoints to the Washington Utility and Transportation Commission (WUTC) to strengthen its regulation of energy companies including ours (PSE) regarding radiation safety, costs and fairness with respect to intended pollutive electricity metering.
- Educated in some depth the Langley City Council members and two of the Island County Commissioners about wireless codes, safe rural broadband connectivity, and the smart meter issue. We have rebutted many false claims of safety by PSE about the harmlessness of "smart" meter program ultimately intended for the island.
- Given multi-media presentations and a movie for the public on the Electrosmog problem that includes wi-fi, smart meters, cell phones and the 5G push. Electrosmog is ever growing--see one presentation on all this linked on our home page.
- Had an ongoing interaction with South Whidbey School System about how to reduce the intense radiation fields immersing students and teachers for many hours a day. This is a challenging problem that has effects for our future generations. The COVID crisis set back our efforts to influence cutting down screen time for youngsters.
- 2020and 2022 presentation and exhibit at Sound Stewards University on how plants, animals and insects are being degraded by human-made ubiquitous, ever-growing radiofrequencies spread throughout the whole troposphere of the planet.