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and media with the courage to report the truth about the revolution against wireless smart meters because of health effects related to 24/7 radiation exposure within our communities. Hydro companies and governments have made one of the biggest mistakes in the history of the world with wireless smart meter installations. Hydro companies hide behind draconian electromagnetic exposure safety codes that are no longer appropriate and actually do not even apply to wireless smart meter radiation types. The ancient government legislation and lazy politicians are not protecting anyone from smart meter radiation exposure especially in Canada and the USA. Wireless smart meters infiltrate your home with electromagnetic radiation that increases health risk of disease and disorders. The smart meter radiation travels for a few miles in all directions and pierces through all non-metallic mediums. If your community has 1000 homes then 1000 smart meters are exposing you and your family to their radiations, even while sleeping! Although the smart meters fire off intermittently, they collectively have a cumulative effect on our health over time. Smart meter radiation sickness in its variety of forms is infiltrating our children, babies, pregnant mothers, elderly, pets, etc. Please post, email, circulate and use this information below to stop wireless smart meter installation. Perhaps governments want people to become sick so that the public will spend millions on pills and medication to remedy their illnesses. It makes me ashamed that such ignorant wireless smart meter mandate can be forced upon citizens overriding our constitutional right to opt-out. Most of the press is shamefully regulated today and certain scientists are on company payrolls or fear for their jobs as they could be ejected for telling the truth about health effects and smart meter radiation. With no opt-out, governments have forced this atrocity on its own people. What a disgrace to public health safety.
We Shut Down PG&E Smart Meter Installation in Santa Cruz County Today!
People throughout the state have been reporting headaches, nausea, dizziness, sleep disruption and other health impacts after smart meters are installed.Some have even been forced into homelessness, living in their cars with the hope that their smart meter will be removed. ..nearly two dozen cities and counties have demanded a halt to the program based on peer-reviewed scientific studies linking the types of emissions from DumbMeters to short and long term health impacts.
Dear Ms. Yamamoto, I am writing to express my concern over a provision of the Clean Energy Act which is currently before the legislature. My specific concern is that this piece of legislation, as written, apparently does not give homeowners the choice to opt out of using the proposed wireless meters, which are known to emit radiation that is unsafe. Citizens across North America are concerned about the increased electromagnetic pollution such wireless meters will generate, without regard to a person's age or health. The California Public Utilities Commission has been asked to mandate providing citizens with the ability to opt-out (refer http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/EFILE/A/116285.htm ) and included below is a letter from an Ontario resident which details the negative health effects from such wireless meters. My understanding is that the Clean Energy Act, intended to be passed this session, exempts smart meters from any public discussion and, if this is indeed the case, I think it's disgraceful. Please do your utmost to ensure that people are given the choice of safeguarding their health. Respectfully, Hillar Kalmar
Another meter attached to the house next door was about eighteen feet away and many leaves on the tree, which were close to that meter, were changing colour. I measured the microwave radiation between the houses and it constantly spiked over two thousand microwatts per square metre. The radiation was almost continuous, one powerful spike after another. This City wide Wi Fi, smart meter system is very powerful, highly dangerous and must be stopped. Fighting this danger is part of my election platform in the Stratford Municipal Election. Note: More detailed photographs of the plant, will be taken and made available, when the weather improves.
MARTIN WEATHERALL CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR OF STRATFORD
Health Canadas own microwave Safety Code published in 1999, contains the following disclaimer on page 3: In a field where technology is advancing rapidly and where unexpected and unique problems may occur, this Code cannot cover all possible situations and blind adherence to rules cannot substitute for the exercise of sound judgement. infosafe.ca
Scientific studies linking wireless radiation to brain tumors and other adverse health impacts have led to local laws being passed in Fairfax and Watsonville that ban smart meters completely. Short-term health impacts include headaches, sleep problems, dizziness, heart palpitations and stress. Sandi Maurer The following local governments have demanded a halt to the smart meter program: City and County of San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Marin Counties, and the cities of Sebastopol, Berkeley, Cotati, Fairfax, Santa Cruz, Piedmont, Scotts Valley, Capitola, Watsonville, Sausalito, Belvedere, Monte Sereno, Novato, Richmond, Ross, Bolinas, and Camp Meeker. Power Line Carrier is especially suitable in good networks or places where several meters are concentrated (apartment buildings, etc.) Ferranti The following is just a sample of countless letters on the web:
Government bases their safety levels, simply on heating effects and they completely ignore biological effects on the brain, nervous system, DNA, blood and various other areas of the body. The smart meter systems (using microwave radiation) that are likely to be installed in apartments throughout Ontario are already obsolete and should not be considered for any future use. This is because of the health harm that may occur to persons who will be exposed to radiation from them. The danger posed by microwave radiation is well known and well researched. The adverse health effects have been known for many years. It would be irresponsible for the Ontario Government to force large numbers of the population to be exposed to microwave radiation. A comparison of the danger, may be spraying all apartments in Ontario with small amounts of dangerous poisons, irritants, harmful emissions and dangerous gasses. These poisons may not harm people in the short term, but over a long period of time they are likely to cause a large amount of significant harm to health. It is important for the Members of the Ontario Legislature and the members of this committee, to learn about the adverse health effects of microwave radiation, before this bill is considered and before a vote on the subject. The Government must not cause further environmental and health harm to the citizens of Ontario. Many of the modern diseases which are plaguing the world today have been scientifically linked to microwave radiation and other forms of electro magnetic radiation. Signals from apartment smart meters will not simply travel from the meter to the reception point, they are likely to travel on the electrical systems that circulate around apartment buildings and may harm the tenants by re-radiating inside the apartments. Yesterday I was visiting an apartment in Stratford where the electrical meters (previously installed when the building was new) were located in a room next to the apartment. If, all of these meters were changed to smart meters emitting microwave radiation, this apartment, and others nearby, may become unliveable. All humans are sensitive to electro magnetic radiation. The tremendous increase of electro magnetic radiation, because of wireless devices, is causing many people to become more sensitive and others are becoming electro hyper-sensitive. If the Ontario Government contributes to the amount of electrical pollution, it may be very difficult for some people in Ontario to live normal lives. Electro sensitivities, made worse by the Government installing smart meters may lead to huge legal claims against the Province. If many people develop significant illnesses because of exposure to electro magnetic radiation, the Provincial health system is likely to break down. Please do not under estimate the dangers posed by this new wireless pollution. The cost to implement smart meters to all apartment buildings around Ontario will be huge, with little likelihood of any major energy savings. In coming years, as more knowledge about the health effects of microwave radiation emerge, there is a real chance that all these new Smart Meters will have to be replaced with
safe ones again, at a huge cost. The government should not be experimenting with the health and safety of its citizens. If you do implement a plan to put meters in apartment buildings, you must ensure there is true value to the investment and that they are safe and do not emit radio frequencies or microwave radiation. An important place to learn about the health effects of electro magnetic radiation is the scientific information contained in the Bio Initiative Report, which can be accessed at www.bioinitiative.org . Another location to find out about the dangerous mixture or electricity and radiofrequency pollution is www.powerwatch.org.uk . Canadian Internet sites containing information about the health effect of EMR include www.magdahavas.org andwww.weepinitiative.org . Yours sincerely, Martin Weatherall Co Director WEEP (The Canadian Initiative to stop Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution)
microwaves at 2.4 GHz. Apparently 2 consecutive ambassadors died of cancer, another developed leukemia and bleeding eyes, 16 women developed breast cancer, while others suffered immune system disorders, high white blood cell counts, chromosomal breaks, chronic fatigue, blurred vision, etc.
You assured me that the criteria for the RF emissions of the Smart Meters is safe since it complies with Canada Safety Code 6; however, our Canadian standards have drastically lagged behind the rapid growth of this new wireless technology rendering it effectively obsolete to protect humans while creating an advantage for the telecommunications industry and now apparently for Hydro 1 as well. Adding a Smart Meter to every single home in Ontario while you claim it is within standards only adds to every single persons radiation burden in the province. The Russians apparently have microwave standards for public exposure that are 100 times more stringent that those in North America. I wonder why? Do I want a Smart Meter? Absolutely not. Do I want cancer. Not! I sincerely hope that Hydro 1 will respect the wishes of people such as myself and not impose this electricity monitoring system with its added radiation burden on my family home. I know it has taken a long time to recognize the livestock/EMF problem illustrated in the above link, just as the connection between tobacco and asbestos are now recognized as being linked with cancer. The current research on wireless technology, which is now vast, is rapidly identifying EMF/RF as a significant risk factor and is supporting the disease connection between humans/animals and EMF/RF. Smart Consumers usually think for themselves and do their own research instead of blindly accepting as truth what is marketed to them. Smart Meters are not really smart at all! I prefer to err on the side of 'precaution' when it comes to my health. Regards, Janice
Letter to BC Hydro
Dear Ms. Verschoor: I am writing to express my concerns regarding BC Hydro's plan to install 'smart' meters on every BC home. Although I applaud the effort to conserve energy and do as much conservation as I can, there are other issues at stake here. Namely, the fact that these meters use wireless transmitters, which rely on signals in the microwave spectrum similar to cell phones and WiFi computer systems. This band, between the 900 Mhz to 2.4 Ghz range, has been shown in numerous independent international studies to have effects on human health at power levels even below those commonly used to transmit these
signals. Our bodies rely on electrical signals to function; our cells, like any communication network, rely on them to repair and sustain themselves. Pulsed radiation from microwaves disrupts cellular communication in biological systems. Some scientific studies have shown that cellular damage is done by repeated exposure to microwave signals, including DNA strand breaks. While single strand DNA breaks can be repaired by the body, double strand breaks cannot, and become genetic mutation that is passed on to offspring. Aside from that, the experience with smart meters in California has not been encouraging. Citizens have complained of numerous health issues, including heart rate problems, high blood pressure, insomnia, tinnitus, chronic fatigue, etc. Part of the problem is that our civilization is currently layering one form of electromagnetically-powered device over another, so the effects are cumulative. By introducing yet another layer with smart meters, we are setting the stage for more widespread chronic illness and eventually cancers of various kinds. Even the recently released Interphone study, which has been largely discredited by reputable scientists, showed a 40% increase in certain types of brain tumours with heavy use of cell phones. In fact the rate is much higher according to studies whose methodology has been properly conducted, probably closer to a 200% higher incidence of tumours. The other issue in California has been that the smart meters apparently are not at all accurate and have resulted in numerous incidences of conflict between the utility company and clients who say they have been grossly overcharged. The utility then relies exclusively on the smart meter reading, somehow assuming it can't make a mistake, and holds customers to account. BC Hydro could be asking for far more trouble than the minor savings these meters provide are worth, in terms of disputes with customers. Once again I see that our Liberal government is prepared to ram through another legislation designed to help the corporate sector through its new Clean Energy Act, under the guise of being environmentally friendly. There is no optout clause in this Act for customers who may be sensitive to electromagnetic radiation through smart meters. That is like saying, "You'll take our pollution and like it whether you want it or not." That is hardly a "free market" economy, when there is no choice. I am prepared to discuss other options for saving energy, and already have a solar hot water system installed so as to cut energy costs between May-October. However, I will resist with all my power any attempt to install wireless smart meters on my home. Sincerely, Art Joyce BC To all members of the Standing Committee on General Government in
consideration of Bill 235, Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010: While the legislation appears primarily directed at landlord-tenant affairs as they touch on matters of contract and remuneration, we recommend its "protective" intent should be admissive of other aspects to tenant and consumer protection. After description below of some background precipitating our interest in making this submission before the Committee, further below please find some suggested legislative amendment. Quite apart from one's view of the usefulness of "smart" metering and of landlord-tenant relations, the actual apparatus and system prevalent in Ontario has already proven dangerous to some, in regard to the recourse to radiofrequency for data transmission to and from the new meters. An ever increasing number of Ontarians are stricken with various degrees of what is commonly called 'electrosensitivity', some so severely as to be called 'electrohypersensitive' Utilities deploying "smart" meters throughout Ontario rely on assurances that their radiofrequency emissions fall well within the bounds of existing federal standards. But as so many now consider these standards obsolete in reliance on one crude measure of biological effect, thermally-based, any presumed determination of safety there from is suspect Since the aformentioned 2007 report, there has been very much more scholarly output attesting to the dangers of wireless. Very much material in more popular media has increasingly been published as well Currently, at least two electricity providers in Ontario are known to offer to move meters away from where it is considered harmful by the consumer, except that a substantial fee (e.g. $1000) is exacted from the consumer. The consumer possibly if inadvertently harmed by "smart" meter methods, should not be required to pay to escape possible danger. Many methods of conveying even the currently required daily meter readings are imaginable, from visual reading (capacity for which meters are legislatively compelled to retain) and even automatic telephone reporting, to actual shifting of the meters to safer locations. Please note that one Swedish study tracking studies of electrosensitives since the 1980s, shows that a linear increase in the proportion of sufferers is on track to attain 50% of the population by 2017. This is a major developing problem utilities would do well, with government enablement and encouragement, to address well in advance of this projected possible avalanche of associated suffering. Daryl Vernon
STOP SMART METERS! SMART METER DANGER http://www.smartmeterdangers.com WEEP NEWS Smart-meters-far-more-dangerous http://www.ncil.org/resources/radiofrequencyarticle.html http://www.turn.org/article.php?id=1154 http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?page_id=872 http://legalplanet.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/smart-meters-and-smart-regulation/ http://transitionwestmarin.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/smart-meters-a-dumb-idea/ http://newresearchfindingstwo.blogspot.com/2010/08/are-smart-meters-safe.html Legislative Submission Re-Bill-235-Energy-Consumer-Protection-Act-2010 RADIO interview about Smart Meter Danger In the U.S., the thermal effects are generally believed to be the only ones of significance; other contentions are usually dismissed as lacking a provable basis. In the USSR, non-thermal effects are considered the most significant and are overwhelmingly the ones most studied. -- Leo P. Inglis Health Canadas revised electromagnetic radiation exposure Safety Code 6 (2009), contains the following disclaimer on page 1: In a field where technology is advancing rapidly and where unexpected and unique problems may occur, this code cannot cover all possible situations. Consequently, the specifications in this code may require interpretation under special circumstances. Thank you to all the people above for their brave work in the revolution against wireless smart meters. Please distribute the information to save your community and family from wireless smart meter harmful radiation.