The Irish Presidency is promoting a revision of the Directive regarding protection of workers who risk exposure to electromagnetic fields within their work environment. The Council of the EU, the European Parliament and the European Commission have...
New minimum standards on the safety and health of workers exposed to electromagnetic fields will soon be imposed by the European Union. Representatives of the European Parliament and European Council reached an informal agreement on this dossier...
New EU Rules On Exposure Of Workers To Electromagnetic Fields Agreed
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The European Council and the European Parliament, with the help of the Commission, successfully concluded their negotiations on a new directive on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from...
Securing the Edges of the Smart Meter Network From Hacking
That s because the hundreds or thousands of smart meters that make up a neighborhood area network are open to threats that centralized systems may not catch, Galen Rasche, EPRI?s technical executive for industrial cybersecurity, said in an interview last week.
LOCAL PHYSICIAN JOINS BANDWAGON OF AREA RESIDENTS DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT FORTIS BC SMART METERS
Flynn, said many of the world s leading scientists now believe the energy created by electro-magnetic radiation (EMR) now poses the single-largest threat to human health in the 21st Century.
Kilpatrick is now convinced they are causing numerous ailments and complex illnesses that are now showing up in patients that she never had to deal with in the past. ''We are seeing more and more acute diseases, more chronic fatigue, more fibromyalgia?these things are not going away and they are getting worse.?
Two Naperville Mothers were arrested today in conjunction with the forced installation of wireless smart meters
NSMA President, Kim Bendis and Board Member, Jen Stahl were arrested today during a forced installation of wireless smart meters in Jen s home.
Details are still unknown but Kim was witnessing the event from Jen s property and was video taping. Three officers shoved her against a tree, pried her camera from her hands, and cuffed her. Both Jen and Kim were taken into police custody sometime in the 2:00 hour CST.
Stahl, who was released from custody about 4:30 p.m., said when she refused the smart meter, installers accompanied by police cut the bicycle lock she had placed on her fence and entered her backyard. She then stood in front of her electric meter and refused to move.
''It was forced on my house today,'' she said. ''It was really a violation. I violated something, but I have been violated too so I guess we are now in a society of violating one another.''
BC Hydro will remove barricades preventing Smart Meter installation
Opposition to the Smart Meters include Jim Smith, the president of stopsmartmeters.ca coalition. He says he will do whatever it takes to keep the new meters off his home, including physically standing in front of workers. He has concerns of the...
January 24, 2013 (NAPERVILLE, Ill.) (WLS). They were arrested for interfering with the installation of so called Smart Meters at their homes. Thursday evening, one of the two Naperville women arrested is speaking out about their opposition to...
However, the arrest of NSMA President Kim Bendis and board member Jennifer Stahl as utility workers cut a chain locking a fence around Stahl s house so a wireless smart meter could be forcibly installed was just about as dumb a move as I have seen our municipality make in a very long time.
Annapolis utilities customers may have more options when it comes to smart meters at their homes and businesses thanks to a ruling by the Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) on Monday. In a split decision, the PSC voted to require Baltimore Gas ...
The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada on Wednesday agreed to let local power utility NV Energy charge ratepayers to opt out of the company s smart-meter program. The commission also approved an analog meter as the alternative to smart meters, ...
Rosalinda s Filipino Kitchen is currently closed after an electrical fire broke out inside the restaurant. The fire, which broke out shortly before 1 p.m., originated from an electrical panel, where a BC Hydro smart meter was located.
A huge pulse repeat every 10 seconds interrupting WIFI, blue tooth and wireless internet.
Stay with your original analog meter. I am so p... . My recording studio clients and friends won t use my facility.
Is there someone with an original analog meter that can legally switch me back? I don t want their new analog alternative either.
My trust in power conglomerates is irretrievably lost after this Smart Meter s**t. This pulse is endlessly transmitted to every outlet and extension cord. It s nasty. Don t let them take your meter.
Attorney general says DTE Energy smart meter opt-out fees not justified
DTE Energy customers shouldn t have to pay $87 to have a smart meter taken off their home, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says. Customers should also be able to keep their analog meter, Schuette said in a written opinion.
In the statement filed this month by Schuette in response to ongoing state-level hearings on Detroit Edison s proposed opt-out program for its customers who don t want smart meters, Schuette said he didn t think fees the company had proposed customers pay were justified.
Rep. Tom McMillin of Rochester Hills introduced a bill Tuesday that would prohibit utilities from giving discounts to customers who install the meters. It would also limit the number of times the utility can read data from the smart meter each month.
When Southern California Edison installed a ''smart meter'' in December, my electric bill jumped to about $70. I called the solar panel company (REC) that installed my system and they told me that they were getting other calls from customers whose bills jumped up to three times when the smart meter was installed.
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I have excellent news about our legal contract which we had been negotiating up until this week. Some of the plaintiffs did not want to sign on because although attorney s fees had been waived, the contract stated plaintiffs were responsible for court costs, which in a case like this could go into the hundreds of thousands with experts witnesses, etc. The law firm has now agreed to not only relieve plaintiffs of attorney fees but ALL fees and costs associated with this suit including expert witnesses, court filing costs, etc. The contract has been corrected, so this should no longer be a stumbling block with plaintiffs.
If anyone knows of anyone in SoCal Edison territory who has suffered health effects from smart meters or smart grid and would like to be included in this law suit, please have them get in touch with me asap.
Here is some recent coverage from our local news paper, The Topanga Messenger on the recent hearings in Los Angeles on smart meters...
You have heard about concerns over smart meters that transmit intimate details of power consumption by radio waves, as well as the related dangers from the related dangers from the transmissions from cell phones. Now, it appears, American consumers also may have reason to worry about their water meters.
Dancing is associated with a joyous occasion unless it happens to be a cow doing it.
'Dancing cow' is a term describing an animal feeling the pain of stray current which causes it to step back and forth in an effort to break the circuit of electricity flowing through its body. It is associated with cows repeatedly kicking off milking equipment as well.
It is neither joyous for the cow or its owner for that matter, although the pain felt by the latter is best described as financial and/or emotional in nature. It is a situation that has grown increasingly common on dairy farms but only more recently brought into the open.
The suppression has been attributed to a combination of circumstances -from the utilities providing the electricity claiming there was no problem or at least not from their perspective to farmers themselves hiding the situation in much the manner of someone concealing a contagious disease.
''It is not the sort of things farmers want to talk about at the coffee shop,'' said Dr. Magda Havas, an associate professor of environmental and resource studies at Trent University in Peterborough.
She was one of a panel of speakers addressing the topic of stray current, often referred to as tingle/stray voltage or dirty electricity, at a public forum sponsored by the Perth County Federation of Agriculture recently in Listowel.
Also addressing the 100-plus people in attendance were three farmers whose lives and farm businesses had been severely affected by stray current causing a myriad of diseases to their livestock from breeding problems, to lameness, abortion and death itself.
Tavistock-area dairy farmer Mark Erb, a sixth generation farmer milking 100 cows, said loneliness best described how he felt in dealing with the debilitating effect of stray current in his barn: seven cows dying in the period of a week; 14 heifers dying over a two-week period with 41 eventually dying over several months.
''Laughing on the outside, crying on the inside,'' was the subtitle given to his talk referring to the effort of putting on a brave, stoic face to the surrounding farm community when the problem suddenly descended on his farm in July of 2008.
However the stress of trying unsuccessfully to correct the situation, with feed suppliers, veterinarians, electricians, as milk production and income dropped, took a toll on his health. To save his own life required open heart surgery in 2010.
''What is happening in the barn is happening in the house,'' said Erb of the stress on family relationships. Eventually he felt he had to talk openly about the associated problems, although with difficulty, even in the silent pauses taken at the meeting to regain composure.
Various people responded by saying the problem was caused by poor management until you eventually believed it yourself, said Erb. Through installation of filters and blockers to deflect or reroute the stray current, Erb did eventually begin to get the problem under control on his operation, although some breeding problems have persisted.
THE STRESS has not left entirely either as two neighbours within a mile and a half begin having similar problems with their livestock which they attributed to the action taken by Erb at his farm. He was accused of being the cause of the problem rather than a victim.
Stray current appears to have a fairly straightforward pattern made more complex by human attempts to deal with it. As explained by panel member Lorne Lantz: for every single electron of electrical current leaving the source via a conductor a single electron must be returned to the source. The job of returning the electron to its source is done by the neutral or fourth wire accompanying the three wires distributing electricity in a conventional three phase power grid.
The ever-increasing load demand on the outf low of electrons has resulted in inadequate controlled means of returning electrons to the source on the neutral side. As a result the electrons use the earth - whereever it can find the path of least resistance -as a means of returning to the source. Dr. Havas suggested the problem could be solved by simply installing a second neutral wire in the system operated in Ontario by Hydro One.
So far Hydro One has dealt with the problem by installing ground rods at every third hydro pole, connected to the neutral wire to facilitate completion of an uncontrolled electric pathway back to the source. ''Your home, shed and barns are being used as ground rods by the utility,'' said Lantz, a former dairy farmer in the Wellesley area whose trouble with stray current resulted in him taking a new career path as a consultant dealing with the associated problems. He has worked with farmers all across Ontario in identifying sources of stray current the term he prefers to use instead of stray voltage on their farms. 'Farmers are responsible for manure dumps but utilities dump current and no one says a word,'' said Lantz.
WHILE DR. Havas and Lantz suggested the grounding of neutral at every third pole is a quick, cheap fix by Hydro One that has only exacerbated the problem, John Kalich, manager of distribution planning for Hydro One at the Barrie headquarters says that's not so. His department is responsible for power quality and reliability. ''That is the way the system was designed from the beginning,'' said Kalich referring to when electricity was first brought to the province a century ago with the installation of four to six ground rods every kilometre. Kalich was invited to the meeting by organizers. He said he had considered participating as a speaker but felt he was ''outmanned'' and sensed an air of hostility in the room. ''They are fearmongers'' said Kalich of the message being presented by panel members. He suggested panel members were creating the impression that every farm in Ontario was being threatened with economic ruin because of stray current. ''That is obviously not the case.'' In reference to the three farmers who spoke at the meeting, he noted that their situations had been resolved over time. Hydro One has a guideline of steps to follow for customers suspecting they have a problem with stray current, beginning with an examination of their electrical system by a qualified electrician. While Kalich noted he had 17 electrical engineers under his supervision, Dr. Havas suggested that lawyers, not engineers, occupied top management positions for Hydro One. If action taken by Hydro One to correct the problem was successful it would then point blame for its financially damaging effects at Hydro One, leaving the utility open for legal action, so steps are not taken for corrective action, suggested Dr. Havas.
SO WHILE the physical element of electrical current is straightforward enough the argument as to who is responsible for controlling it, the human element, has many twists and turns. Even the terminology used to describe the problem, referred to as pollution, in the failed attempt by the province in 2006 to deal with it in the 'Ground Current Pollution Act', is vague and perhaps misleading. The private members bill died with the change of government. Then there are: the various means of measuring and/or quantifying the actual current on site; the wide range of frequencies more or less damaging; where to properly measure it, at the cow, on the transformer pole stack, in the yard; maximum acceptable limits for livestock and humans; etc. etc. etc. There may be future attempts to deal with the problem via legislation, but the farm population has the political power of a pen-light battery and is unlikely to create any sense of urgency around finding a solution, especially if it is an expensive one in a deficit-challenged province.
The Ontario Energy Board continues to monitor the situation after soliciting input from all parties involved. In the meantime it will continue to cost farmers affected hundred of thousands of dollars in lost production from livestock, said Dr. Havas. She added that it is often farmers who are the most successful managers, who have constructed modern livestock facilities, who experience stray current attracted to the steel used in newer buildings as well as the large liquid-filled cement manure holding tanks whose underground piping systems provide easy access to the building interior. Problems are more common on farms at the end of a distribution line or where the three phase distribution is split out to single phase feeder lines.
The political impetus to address the problem could yet come from the general population because stray current is also an increasing problem in urban metropolises, said Dr. Havas. Dogs walking over dampened steel man hole covers in New York have been electrocuted recently. Owners walking their dogs are being advised not to use metal leashes. The issue is so complex and difficult to understand the general public just looks the other way. But that could change if the health of pets is affected, said Dr. Havas adding the more important issue will be human health.
One area both Hydro One s Kalich and panelists could agree on is the demand put on the system by electrical equipment that didn t even exist when the distribution system was established. Large variable speed electric motors common on farms for such things as vacuum milking pumps or ventilation fans, while designed to save electricity by matching current to varying demand, emit higher volumes of stray current than conventional electric motors. There was agreement as well that wind turbines and invertors from solar panels, with installations popping up all across the rural landscape, are a potential source of stray current. This does not bode well in conjunction with a distribution system that was carried out as cheaply as possible in the first place to rural areas from cities because of a smaller customer base, said Dr. Havas.
Considering green electricity is being strongly promoted by the ruling Liberal government, farmers may face Hydro One and Queens Park in the deflecting of stray ground current and responsibility.
Source: BY BOB REID For Ontario Farmer
Section: Dairy Page: B10
Memo: The writer lives in Shakespeare farmhouse@cwisp.ca
Note: Stray voltage is not known to many people and is very difficult to tetect and measure, yet it may be affecting the health of millions of people in North America due to a badly designed electrical grid system.
BC Smart Meters
We just got good news that BC Hydro has missed its deadline for the smart meter program and is extending it another year.
Thousands refuse smart meters; installation deadline extended by Rob Shaw, Times Colonist, December 27, 2012:
Of course they say it s due to labour shortage, NOT. They sent their Corix installers to Alberta a few weeks ago. And to material shortage, NOT. All the meter companies have a surplus due to the protests across North America.
We have more than 100,000 homes refusing meters according to Hydro which has not been honest about anything so I bet this number is much higher. A couple of months ago it was 250,000, but due to bullying, threats and lies some people did give in.
I believe if we stand firm and continue to refuse we can beat this illegal, dangerous program.
Two local interveners have asked the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) to suspend the proceedings until FortisBC has done all their research and included a wired in option in their business plan.
Since BC Hydro does not have an opt out option for smart meters this imposition restricts my ability to limit my exposure and protect my health. This is a violation of my right to be safe in my own home
''It is not hard to imagine that in the next few years, you go to a coffee shop, sit down in a chair, sign into a power zone, and charge your phone or laptop,'' said Richard Martin, editorial director for Pike, a market research group that focuses on smart-energy solutions. ''We predict this technology taking off in a similar fashion to how Wi-Fi got its start a decade or so ago.''
SAN DIEGAN FILES SUIT OVER SMART METER HEALTH ISSUES
December 29, 2012 (San Diego). A federal lawsuit has been filed by Celeste Deborah Cooney, who alleges that radiation from a bank of smart meters left her unable to reside in her home. Defendants in the suit include the SDG&E, the State of California,...
Preventing Ground Current Electricity from entering your house on your plumbing
You may be suffering adverse health effects because of ground current electricity (carrying high frequency pollution) entering your home. This video may help you to solve the problem.
Daniel Ross, Truthout: Little is still known about the human health effects of stray electric currents. But at Desert Rose, a California community perched beside an electrical substation, residents are falling chronically ill, and experts believe that stray currents could be to blame...
Listen to Part 2 of an insightful discussion about the need to transform the economy of energy?and why the current ?smart meter? approach is ill-conceived.
I have attached a copy of the legal complaint that I filed Monday 12/17/12, about harm caused by smart meter radiation. Feel free to share this document. It is a matter of public record. I hope that others can use my work as a sample to file their own cases. If we all stand up for our rights, the offenders will have to take notice.
Comment: Best wishes Deborah and thanks for sharing this.
Martin
UK: Bridgewater unanimously passes law to regulate cell phone towers
The Bridgewater Township Council Monday voted unanimously in favour of an ordinance introduced on Dec. 3 to regulate future cell sites, such as the one the township rejected from T-Mobile earlier this year that triggered an ongoing lawsuit from the wireless company, according to a representative from the township clerk s office.
PG&E gets earful over SmartMeters at Santa Rosa hearing
Two hundred people turned out Thursday in Santa Rosa to rail against PG&E SmartMeters, complaining that individual opt-out fees are unfair, that cities should be able to get out of the program and that the wireless technology is a health threat.
''It is unconscionable to extort money for safety, especially for people who cannot afford the cost of removal of this toxic device,'' said Ami Hartley.
Susan Brinchman
Director, Center for Electrosmog Prevention
P.O. Box 655
La Mesa, CA
91944 director(at)electrosmogprevention.org
Center for Electrosmog Prevention http://www.electrosmogprevention.org
Smart Meters can invalidate your homeowners insurance
This may be the straw that breaks the camel s back as far as the smart meter controversy goes. Power companies cannot install devices that invalidate your homeowner s insurance and that may be the legal grounds opponents of smart meters have been looking for to get them removed.
Are there widespread problems with Reno-area smart meters?
What happens, he said, is that power starts flowing again after the electricity is turned off and comes back on. Older appliances that don t have good surge protection can get fried, and sometimes electrical panels can fail.
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