The 5G network (illustration). - Geeko

Two NGOs announced on Friday that they were launching a legal action against the call for candidates launched in December for the allocation of 5G frequencies. A petition has also been launched against the deployment of this controversial technology.

5G promises much faster transmission of very large amounts of data and the development of futuristic technologies. But it also raises many concerns, linked to its potential impact in terms of health and the environment.

Press Release and Petition - 5G: Associations ask for a moratorium and seize the Council of State # stop5G | Priartem & Agir pour l'Environnement https://t.co/CGGyJopBs0 via @APEnvironnement

- APE (@APEnvironnement) January 24, 2020

An appeal filed before February 25

The Telecoms Regulatory Authority (Arcep) launched in late December the procedure for allocating radio frequencies between 3.4 GigaHertz and 3.8 GHz. The allocation conditions are specified in a decree published in the Official Journal on December 31. It is this decree that the associations Agir pour l'Environnement and Priartem-Electrosensibles de France want to have annulled.

An appeal will be filed before the Council of State by mid-February, before February 25, the deadline for applications from operators for 5G. "This deployment of 5G has not been subject to an environmental assessment", explains the lawyer for the NGOs. “It contravenes protective health regulations and the precautionary principle. "

The risk of “hyperconnectivity” and the need for electricity

"We reverse things: we make the decision and we think afterwards", denounces Stephen Kerckhove, general delegate of Agir pour l'Environnement. “We have almost no information on health and environmental assessments. Beyond that, the two associations highlight other societal impacts of this new technology.

"5G is the hyperconnectivity of everything and everyone, it is a rock of society," says Sophie Pelletier, president of Priartem. " And the man in all of that ? The “Stop 5G” petition, put online this Friday, also highlights the expected increase in energy consumption.

PETITION - Stop 5G https://t.co/jtomZotq8m via @apenvironnement

- iYo Han San (@RadicalTermo) January 24, 2020

This "would be multiplied by 2.5 to 3 in the next five years", an increase of 2% in electricity consumption in the country, said specialists from the think tank The ShiftProject in early January in a column in Le Monde . Added to this is the energy required to manufacture the terminals, servers and all the connected objects which then used this technology.

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