Audio file of “Health Risks from Electric Power Facilities,” which was a talk I gave at an international utility symposium, sponsored by the Electric Power Research Institute, the Canadian Electrical Association, the Edison Electric Institute, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Bonneville Power Administration, and Ontario Hydro. Toronto, Canada, September 16-19, 1986. I spoke on September 17. The text of the paper I submitted for the symposium proceedings is available. Click here to view the PDF.

The oily character who begins talking after my presentation is H.B. Graves, who was the face of the power-industry effort in the 1980s aimed at convincing the public that powerline EMFs were not health risks. He began as a major contractor for the Electric Power Research Institute in the 1970s, and was recruited to replace the team of Morton Miller, Solomon Michaelson, Edwin Carstensen, and Herman Schwan after they had become discredited.

Graves moved through the EMF issue in the 1980s like shit through a goose. He was the chairman of an EMF literature review that was carried out by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, chairman of the Florida EMF Science Commission, and chairman of a commission that examined EMF issues for the Australian Department of Health. He went to work for Tom Watson, as Watson’s chief of staff, and was largely responsible for organizing the team of NIH experts that successfully defended the power industry in a famous case in Goshen, New York. The last I heard about Graves he was the Director of Environmental and Health Sciences at Leboeuf, Lamb, Greene, & McRae.

At the Toronto meeting Graves was at the apex of his career as an apologist for the power industry. It was therefore his responsibility to respond to the challenge posed by my presentation.

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