http://www.stopsmartmetersbc.ca/html/?p=2147


Smart Meter Petitions presented

http://www.stopsmartmetersbc.ca/html/?p=2131


GotEMF


Vote for referendum on B.C. Hydro smart meters

Should one opponent of smart meters get his way, British Columbians might be voting to get rid of them the way they did the harmonized sales tax.

http://www.straight.com/article-546641/vancouver/activists-set-sights-smart-meters


Some Naperville residents refuse Smart Meter alternative

Chicago Daily Herald

AP

By Justin Kmitch

'Not In My Back Yard' has taken on a literal meaning for several Smart Meter opponents in Naperville. Some of the more than 200 residents who requested to be on the city s 'alternative' Smart Meter list, upon receiving mail and...

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20111124/news/711249907/


Green Energy Is Awash in Red Ink

The Smart Meter lawsuit in California will put in jeopardy the manufacturers of such meters if the judge rules that all litigants must have their Smart Meters replaced with traditional meters. This administration has already spent hundreds of millions of dollars for the deployment of Smart Meters across the country and especially in California.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/42668


PG&E Smart Meter Opt-Out: The Ins and Outs

... that exposure to electromagnetic radiation from the meters' wireless communications systems is causing them a myriad of health and mental problems...

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/pges-smart-meter-opt-out-the-ins-and-outs/


Smart meter trial in Australia

http://www.emfacts.com/2011/11/smart-meter-trial-comes-to-new-south-wales-australia/


Arizona power fee may mirror 'smart meter' plan in Calif.

Note the false information about EHS provided by Leeka Kheifets. Pehaps someone in Arizona should find out from Arizona Power, how much she was paid for her services? Maybe Arizona citizens should demand that other experts knowledgable about the biological effects of microwave radiation are also brought to testify?

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2011/11/23/20111123arizona-power-fees-smart-meter-plan-california.html


Investment needed in energy projects, not smart meters

It s all the more shocking to return to beautiful B.C. to find out how vulnerable one can be in a so-called developed country, which calls itself a democracy, where I must now fight for my own health and that of my family and other British Columbians.

http://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion/letters/134420868.html


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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Submit 'smart' meter complaints at SmartMeterHelp.Com

Bay Area Indymedia

by Joshua Hart Today

The EMF Safety Network and Stop Smart Meters! are excited to announce the official launch of our new joint project: SmartMeterHelp.Com. This is a website designed with the sole purpose of burying our elected officials,...

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/29/18701315.php



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Smart Meter Rebellion

Australian householders are rebelling against rising power bills and the new 'smart' meters being installed against their will. The Victorian government has already been forced to review their new power meter rollout, after residents discovered a shocking rise in their power bills and began fighting back...

http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/money/8255667/smart-meter-rebellion


Smart meters: No opposition from celebrities

And isn t it strange that not one 'celebrity' has come to champion the cause against smart meters? Not one celebrity from government, business, entertainment or even any of the so-called guardians of the planet like the Suzuki Foundation, Green Peace, Ducks Unlimited etc.

http://www.langleyadvance.com/Smart+meters+Coleman+opposition+from+celebrities/5750339/story.html


PG& E: Illegal Protection Racket

Pay up or we will harm your family with dangerous bursts of microwave radiation!

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19394080


Legislative council nixes effort to limit Smart Meter fees

'I have heard from people all over the state who are outraged by essentially being double-charged for something they don t want,' Beavers said. 'The cost of opting out is unfairly affecting the elderly, the poor and other vulnerable citizens who cannot afford this, whether for reasons of privacy or for health concerns.'

http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111122/NEWS/111220390/-1/NEWSMAP


Smart meters are making people sick

The Clean energy Act of May 2010 mandates that BC Hydro replace every meter with a 'smart' meter by 2012. There was no normal process for public input. The Act strips the BC Utilities Commission of the power to review the project. Our government mandated this. Our government can repeal it...

http://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion/letters/134283588.html



Informant: Martin Weatherall



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Auszug aus WIK- EMF-Brief Nr. 65
23.11.2011

Die Organisation Electrosensitivity UK ruft zur Unterstützung einer Petition gegen die Einführung von Smart Metern auf mit dem Ziel, langfristig die Gesundheit und Sicherheit der Bürger des Vereinigten Königreichs und insbesondere die Gesundheit der Kinder zu schützen. Verbraucher sollten sich ohne zusätzliche Kosten für drahtgebundene Heimnetze entscheiden können. Für elektrosensible Personen sollte auch die Möglich-keit eingeräumt werden ihre analogen Messgeräte zu behalten und nötigenfalls mit abschirmenden Materia-lien ausgestattet zu werden.

http://www.es-uk.info/news/20111111-smart-meter-petition.asp


Aus: HLV Info 088
23.11.2011



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A group of Kamloops mothers, 'The School Crew,' Linda Malenchak (left), Anita Grywacheski (middle), and Monica Marks, display their signs and clothing protesting BC Hydro s smart meter program at the Merritt Civic Centre Nov. 10...

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British Columbia Smart Meter Petition

Petition is sponsored and managed by Citizens for Safe Technology.

https://cstorg.wufoo.com/forms/q7x3s5/

We need the signatures by tomorrow?as many as possible..our goal for tomorrow is 10 000.


Hans


Signatures gathered to put smart meter issue to Naperville voters

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By Mick Swasko, Special to the Tribune A group opposed to the installation of 'smart' meters to monitor electricity use in Naperville has gathered more than 4000 signatures in its bid to allow residents to weigh in at the polls on whether the city...

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An Introduction To Smart Meters

http://wirelessmess.org/


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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Smart meters: Coleman has no opposition from celebrities

Langley AdvanceNews

Isn t it amazing that Energy Minister Rich Coleman, MLA for Fort Langley/Aldergrove, is forcing us to accept the replacement of our old electric meters with so-called smart meters that will poison our homes with high doses of electromagnetic radiation?...

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Smart meters=tip of the iceberg

Intelligent Utility

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VANCOUVER: BC Conservative leader John Cummins warns that the BC Liberals smart meter program will punish families after its intended time-of-use billing becomes a reality.

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Vigilant residents keep smart meters at bay

All around British Columbia, wary BC Hydro customers keep an ever-watchful vigil around their old electricity meters, while scanning the horizon for any sign of 'the enemy' - the smart-meter guy.

Darlene Read, another cancer survivor who doesn't want a smart meter. Her husband, Syd, installed a Plexiglas box around their old meter and put up a sign asking the smart-meter guy to leave it alone.

http://www.theprovince.com/technology/Vigilant+residents+keep+smart+meters/5724394/story.html


Richmond passes resolution on smart meters

Kelly Masterson, who has multiple sclerosis, lives in a Richmond townhouse attached to an electrical room that now contains 15 smart meters.

By Matthew Hoekstra

Richmond Review

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Bribery charges filed in parking meter case

PORTLAND: A federal prosecutor has filed bribery charges in the wake of a West Coast corruption investigation that raised questions about a company chosen to supply new parking meters in Portland.

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Note: Your body is an electrical device that runs on very low power electrical pulses.

If Smart Meters are interfering with your heart, brain or other parts of your body, you should consider filing a complaint.


Martin Weatherall



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States weighing pros, cons of utility smart meters

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Ron Kaye: The arrogance of power

That smart meters are a sinister invasion of our privacy, part of a 'Big Brother' conspiracy that goes back decades to take control of your mind and the world? Those kinds of concerns brought nearly 170 people out to the Glendale Moose Lodge for most...

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Growing field of ?smart grid? technology faces opposition

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State rep files bill to fight Smart Meters opt-out fee

By Susan Morse

YORK, Maine: As Central Maine Power installs Smart Meters in southern York County, a group of ratepayers has brought its fight against the wireless technology to the state Supreme Judicial Court and a South Berwick lawmaker is filing...

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Smart Meter Law Suit

I believe that the Smart Meter issue is all about the government [in this case CPUC] participating with the big utilities, like SCE, to violate our federal civil rights under color of state law. I do not believe 'lobbying' or 'public protest' will bring the relief from this type of criminal conspiracy necessary and because so few receive the financial benefits while the majority pay the cost through their higher bills, lost health, privacy, and property rights. In these tough times the battle must move from the streets [with Occupy] to the Courts instead. That s why I am suing each and every CPUC Commissioner individually. Because until we hold the individual government decision makers personally and severely liable for their actions against our constitutional protections as individuals the rule of the people for the people, the very essence of what makes us Americans, is lost.

So follow my suit in the Court [which CPUC is trying to get dismissed] and pray I get a jury trial like I am requesting so the CPUC Commissioners can explain to a jury of our peers why they should be allowed to violate the constitution with impunity from damages claims for their individual actions doing so.


Michael E. Boyd President
CAlifornians for Renewable Energy, Inc.
(CARE)
5439 Soquel Drive
Soquel, CA 95073
Phone: (408) 891-9677
E-mail: michaelboyd@sbcglobal.net


Spying on your use of the toilet

City Hall will know when you have flushed.

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Free the Land: the Undoing of Smart Meters...

The A-Infos Radio Project: Broadcast Quality Programming via the Internet.

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The City of Medicine Hat is hoping it will be able to avoid the kind of Smart Meter controversy that has erupted in other parts of North America.

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Health concerns form main focus of smart meter meeting

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http://www.smartmeterpetition.org

'If you want the UK government to use a wired fibre optic network for smart meters you must tell them NOW, as meter designs are being finalised this month. While installation costs may be higher, in the long term a fibre optic network is likely to save the taxpayer millions of pounds in future increased NHS and social services costs from adverse health effects. It could also help to ensure privacy and the security of our personal information.'

What use is there NOW to urge us to sign a petition with FOUR days left to reach the 100 000 target? Why did RRT not send this info round much earlier? This way we will never win this battle. I am speechless! Do you know why this was left so long and also why there is another date (APRIL 2012!) on the official petition website. How confusing!. If meter design is finalised this month, what use is there of a petition now and what happens to signatures after this month? Do you know anything more about this shambles?


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Health concerns form main focus of smart meter meeting

Merritt News

Bennett noted that under Health Canada s Safety Code 6, devices that emit radio frequency-electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) are limited to a range of three kilohertz to 300 gigahertz. He added, however, that the range is based only on the temperature...

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Vigilant residents keep smart meters at bay

The Province

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Smart Meter Health Complaints

http://www.emfsafetynetwork.org/?page_id=2292


Maine utility admits smart meters cause interference

http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?p=6362


Informant: Iris Atzmon



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BCLocalNews

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A National Inquiry on Smart Meters?

One of Australia s biggest consumer ripoffs?

An explosive investigation into the massive mistakes being made with power bills reveals serious flaws that affect nearly every electricity user.

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Robert


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California Recall: Beginning of the End for Smart Meters?

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Smart Meter Resistance Spreads to SoCal: Are New Wireless Meters Spying on You, Making You Sick?

LA Weekly (blog)

Many have accused the paranoid EMF camp of crying 'cancer' at anything emitting even the mildest frequencies, such as cellphones or wireless routers. But Smart Meters do take the invisible air gunk to new weirds: EMF expert and panelist Cindy Sage...

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By Kelly Fiveash

Concerns were raised during a committee hearing in Parliament yesterday over the government's £12bn plan to rapidly roll out smart energy meters in the UK by 2019. A gap exists in communicating the benefits...

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Smart Meter Complaint

Here is a link to the complaint we filed with the California Public Utilities Commission concerning the Smart Meter controversy in California:

Smart Meter Controversy in California

http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/efile/C/146649.pdf


David L. Wilner
Wilner & Associates
Novato, California
415-898-1200


Vermont Smart Meter Update

On November 1, 2011 the Vermont Public Service Board (PSB) held a workshop on its open Smart Grid docket. Originally this was not scheduled to be a public hearing. Vermonters who are opposing wireless Smart Meters picketed outside the PSB office for the hour prior to the beginning of the workshop.

See Fox TV News report at: http://www.abc22.com/story/15928665/vt-smart-grid-workshop-draws-protesters

Also Vermont Public Radio report at: http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/92419/

At the outset of the workshop PSB Hearing Officer George Young announced that he would provide time for public questions and comment. Initially Young queried the staff of the Vermont Department of Public Service (DPS) and the electric utilities representatives about the three drafts prepared by DPS to address issues regarding Automated Metering Opt Out, Privacy, and Cyber Security Protocol. The Vermont ACLU representatives posed questions on how usage data will be collected, stored, used, and protected from use without the consent of the individual ratepayer.

Matt Levin of Vermonters for a Clean Environment ( http://www.vce.org ) commented on the lack of information in the general public about the proposed wireless Smart Meter buildout that has resulted in late public awareness and difficulties for the public to have meaningful participation in the process.

Mr. Young then opened the workshop to the public who attended the workshop. A lengthy discussion followed in which the public questioned DPS s reliance on the FCC RF safety guidelines to protect the public from potential adverse health effects of wireless Smart Meter emissions, effects of RF emissions on wildlife and the environment, compromise of health, safety, personal security, electric grid security and privacy in Vermonters? homes because the system is relying on wireless transmitters.

James Porter, DPS s Director of Telecommunications Division responded that anyone who wants to Opt-Out of a wireless meter can do so. Opt-Out policy proposals call for a $10 per month charge to pay for manual reading of the retained meters. Porter stated that the Vermont Legislature has requested that the Vermont Department of Health do a study that includes a review of the scientific literature on effects of radiofrequency emissions and measurements of wireless Smart Meter emissions.

Mr. Young gave in-depth answers to the public s questions on the roles of the PSB and the DPS and the intricacies of the steps in the process for public participation. He concluded the workshop by modifying the process for Comment on the three specific DPS policy statements that were the original agenda of the workshop. Anyone who attended the workshop can submit written comment specific to the drafts that will part of the record. Commenters can make their submittals electronically without having to serve hard copies to all of the existing parties. Young also reopened the process to allow for late requests to become a party with standing on the draft policy language. Gaining party status allows the party to appeal the final decision on the policy language.

The EMR Policy Institute will provide the links needed to submit electronic comment when full information is posted to the Vermont PSB web site.


Boulder Finds 'Smart Grid' Slow, Pricey

Customers in California recoiled at the rollout of devices there, with a group of PG&E customers complaining about their accuracy and about the potential health effects of the wireless radio frequency emissions from the utility s smart meters...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-01/boulder-finds-smart-grid-slow-pricey.html


SmartMeters send almost 10000 signals a day

SmartMeters are designed to communicate directly with the utility, eliminating the need for meter readers. Turns out they do a lot of talking. According to a document PG&E filed with the California Public Utilities Commission this week,...

http://blog.sfgate.com/energy/2011/11/03/smartmeters-send-almost-10000-signals-a-day/


Too many parallels to HST debacle in smart meter rollout

Globe and Mail

Which is why officials at the Crown corporation have waited until this month to launch a new ad campaign to persuade British Columbians that smart meters are a good thing. Driven by a government-imposed deadline, BC Hydro is already well into what it...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-politics/too-many-parallels-to-hst-debacle-in-smart-meter-rollout/article2224842/


Some smart meters aren t so smart about Daylight Saving Time...

Problem 1: Hourly data recorded by smart meters. Conventional electromechanical meters don t do this; they are more like an odometer that merely advances...

http://www.emeter.com/smart-grid-watch/2011/some-smart-meters-arent-so-smart-about-daylight-saving-time/


Vermont Smart Meter Update

http://vtdigger.org/2011/11/03/activists-protest-private-smart-grid-workshop-with-public-service-board/


Hydro smart meters here in a month

By Phil Melnychuk - Maple Ridge News

About 38000 smart meters are about to be installed in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, starting in December and finishing early in the new year.

http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/133332008.html


MFB probes smart-meter fire risk

The Metropolitan Fire Brigade has confirmed it is investigating a possible link between house fires and the installation of smart meters. The MFB s chief fire officer Shane Wright said the investigation had been prompted by three fires in the past four...

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/mfb-probes-smartmeter-fire-risk-20111107-1n2po.html

Audio well worth listening to:

http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/breaking-news-blog/fires-linked-to-smart-meters/20111107-1n2jz.html


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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PUC wants to hear from Nevadans about smart meters

MyNews3

Some are concerned about the health consequences from the electromagnetic radiation generated from the meters, and others say the meters are broadcasting personal information. NV Energy denies both claims. The PUC is accepting written comments for two...

http://www.mynews3.com/content/news/local/story/PUC-wants-to-hear-from-Nevadans-about-smart-meters/R2aauKgk3Uak_EgahXrl0w.cspx

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Vermont and the opt-out provision

Intelligent Utility

'We are concerned that citizens with RF sensitivity who wish to lower their overall RF load have the right to their viewpoint. Electro-sensitivity is real...

http://www.intelligentutility.com/article/11/11/vermont-and-opt-out-provision



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ABC Online (blog)

Marcella Speaks to Deb about Stan, the role of mobile phones, and her hopes for a cancer cure...

http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/2011/11/walk-for-life-and-brain-cancer-awareness.html


SMART Meters: CPUC Is Put on Notice for Liability

CPUC officials have violated their Oath of Office, endangered public health and violated federal wiretapping laws by failing to protect the public from Smart Meters. Therefore, the CPUC is vulnerable to a lawsuit. The individual Commissioners of the CPUC and Judge Wong may be held personally accountable in a lawsuit for damages caused by Smart Meters.

http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/demand-public-officials-end-smart-meters/?like=1


Catherine


The Great Smart Meter Rip Off

Smart Meter Slave Grid NSW schools power bill will rise $200m and you are gonna pay for it . 'This is a runaway train. We have got these smart-meter charges, we have got the carbon tax costs coming... households are struggling.'

http://ozhouse.org/2011/11/01/australian-power-companies-hit-households-with-1-1-billion-in-the-great-smart-meter-rip-off-on-the-eve-of-huge-sporting-event/


PG&E BEGINS REMOVING ?SMART? METERS DUE TO HEALTH EFFECTS

http://emrabc.ca/?p=3711


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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Smart Meter Opponents Look to Legislation and Regulation

http://sananselmofairfax.patch.com/articles/the-jolly-roger-smart-meter-opponents-look-to-legislation-and-regulation

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Public-health expert David Carpenter says nobody can say there are no adverse health effects from smart meters

Straight.com

... increases the damage to the nervous system, causes electrosensitivity, has adverse reproductive effects, and a variety of other effects on different...

http://www.straight.com/article-518506/vancouver/publichealth-expert-david-carpenter-says-nobody-can-say-there-are-no-adverse-health-effects-smart-meter

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Mobile phones and children s brain tumour risks: Researchers found the highest risk in Sweden ? but dismissed the risks based on under-reported Swedish brain tumour statistics

http://emfacts.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fde0125885d9f7d82a3668e7d&id=0fa6b27a95&e=50655bac52

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Mobile phone cancer danger

http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/kick-start/article/-/9683160/mobile-phone-cancer-danger/


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