Smart Meter Scandal in California? Emails Reveal CPUC May Have Known and Concealed Health Risk

It's not only bad for your health by bombarding people with radiation, it is flat-out EXTORTION!
 
Then go off the grid. Get your own solar system with backup batteries (for when the sun does not shine). You will of course still be exposed to that radiation thing but it will be you extorting yourself. Or give up electricity altogether.
 
Zippyjuan said:
Then go off the grid. Get your own solar system with backup batteries (for when the sun does not shine). You will of course still be exposed to that radiation thing but it will be you extorting yourself. Or give up electricity altogether.
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Zippy lives in his own solar system.

I have a more nuanced understanding and concerns than most. But I do not think that this technology should be mandated by law. That's just dumb.
If the owner of the meter wants to upgrade them at their own expense, then so be it. But when the governments force utilities to do it, you have to draw a line.
 
Are they mandated by the government? In California, it is the option of the utility companies who would be the ones owning the meters.

https://sites.google.com/site/nocel...st-and-foremost-are-wireless-meters-mandatory

Are Wireless Meters Mandatory?

The federal government has set goals for states and utilities to upgrade their electrical grids, and has awarded $4.5 billion in grants to encourage this. However, the federal government does not mandate the installation of smart meters, or even wireless smart meters.

On February 1, 2011, press officer Thomas Welch of the U.S. Department of Energy press officer responded to questions about whether the federal government has made the installation of wireless smart meters mandatory. He wrote:

No. The Federal government, including DOE, does not have any role in regulating the installation of smart meters, nor does it have a policy about the mandatory adoption of smart meters.

The source of DOE’s response can be found in federal documents and legislation relating to the promotion of the smart grid and smart grid technologies, which does not include any federal mandate for wireless smart meter adoption, and does not include any requirement that smart meters (wireless or wired) should be forced upon all consumers.
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However, it might as well be mandated, due to the feds typical modus operandi, grants and subsidies--prepare yourself to be SHOCKED and then take note of the added emphasis:

Recovery Act: Smart Grid Investment Grants

The “grid” amounts to the networks that carry electricity from the plants where it is generated to consumers. The grid includes wires, substations, transformers, switches and much more.

Much in the way that a “smart” phone these days means a phone with a computer in it, smart grid means “computerizing” the electric utility grid. It includes adding two-way digital communication technology to devices associated with the grid. Each device on the network can be given sensors to gather data (power meters, voltage sensors, fault detectors, etc.), plus two-way digital communication between the device in the field and the utility’s network operations center. A key feature of the smart grid is automation technology that lets the utility adjust and control each individual device or millions of devices from a central location.
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Also noting from:

Smart Grid Funding Misspent on Obsolete Technologies, Says New Report:

However, serious health, privacy, security, homeland security, fire and cost concerns over this technology have been raised, and grassroots resistance groups2 have sprung up in at least 18 different states. . . . Unless there are other motives for the meters, it is hard to understand why our government would be promoting and subsidizing "smart meters," when safer and more secure meter alternatives are available. Former CIA Director James Woolsey even has said that on security grounds alone, the new grid design is "…a really, really stupid grid." . . . According to the report, billions of dollars in federal subsidies for "smart" utility meters have been misspent on meter technology that will simply NOT lead to energy sustainability or contribute to the possibility of a more efficient and responsive electricity grid. . . . In short, the $4+ billion federal underwriting of these "smart" meters (which are actually irrelevant to the much broader and more important concept of creating a smart grid) is based on a hoax , as the technology used will NOT take the United States one inch toward sustainability, nor stimulate the U.S. economy, even though that's how the meters are presented and sold. . . . "Based upon a study of 10 autistic cases and 10 normal cases, the pregnant mothers who gave birth to autistic children slept in a location in which microwave radiation was 20.7 times higher, on average, than pregnant mothers who gave birth to non-autistic children."

According to Camilla Rees, MBA, founder of ElectromagneticHealth.Org22 and the Campaign for Radiation Free Schools,23 and overseer of the smart grid report for the National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy:

"While smart meters pose privacy, security, health, financial, and other risks, when one looks at this problem through a wider lens, as has been done by Dr. Schoechle in 'Getting Smarter About the Smart Grid,' one sees a far greater problem—one that relates to our long-term national economic prospects, national security and the U.S. contribution to global carbon emissions. And we see what Dr. Schoechle has called a 'canard' or a 'hoax,' and what some might call fraud.

Noise-making over the meters, while completely justified, is the 'tip of the iceberg' under which one finds political and corporate decision making processes gone very wrong.

Serving only short-term financial interests of the utility industry, instead of acknowledging the reality that there is no role for baseload coal generation in a renewable energy future, these myopic, selfish decisions have essentially sold our energy, economic, environmental, health and privacy interests down the river. It is high time citizens insist that the entire impact of technological decisions, in all areas of life, be more carefully considered."
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And of course Smart Meters: Not So Brainy

The U.S. is in the process of deploying $3.4 billion of federal Smart Grid Investment Grant Program funds, matched by $7 billion of state, local, and ratepayer funds for technological improvements to our electricity grid. The largest portion of these funds is to install smart meters, electronic versions of the old analog (dial-based) meters, along with systems that allow those smart meters to communicate.
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Smart Meter Information Consumers Should Know

Activist Post
March 24th, 2015

by Catherine J. Frompovich

Over the course of a year that my electric power company in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been installing AMI Smart Meters on homes in my area, I have been able to keep one off my house by placing a “No Permission Granted to Install Smart Meter” sign on the meter along with a padlock on the meter latch. Early in February of 2015, I received what I perceived as a threatening letter to my health, safety, and well-being, that if I don’t give PECO permission to install a Smart Meter, my electric power will be turned off, and not because I’ve not paid my bill! No utility bill wherever my late husband or I have lived ever was missed or even made as a late payment! So, I’ve decided to tell my story of what’s been going on in the USA about Smart Meters.

Smart meters basically are licensed radio stations that transmit electrical usage, occupancy times, and other information out of homes on which they are installed, thereby, providing wiretapping without proper and legal search warrants.

As a result of that illegal activity, Smart Meters are illegal and cannot be forced upon anyone since they basically are breaking federal laws, even though they supposedly function within the purview of law, especially in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania where there is no “opt out” provisions in the law. Furthermore, some U.S. Constitutional issues are involved.

Moreover, a Smart Meter basically is nothing more than “a search without a warrant every day,” hundreds of times during the day—24/7, due to the constant collection of information being transmitted out of the house. It’s nothing short of electrical, house-wiretapping! Wiretapping is illegal in all 50 states!

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Data from smart meters, rather than just revealing the net amount of electricity used after a fixed time interval, transmit minute by minute data continuously. Using this information, someone can know exactly what electric devices you are using and when, at all times.

They know when you have the lights on, they know when you fire up the microwave, they know when you turn on the TV. They know when you're on the computer, they know when you're charging your cell phone. All of this information is laid out on a spreadsheet for them to see.

Metadata is the most valuable modern resource. Why do you think Google is worth billions of dollars? By selling your personal information. People are profiting off the abolition of your privacy.
 
Oh yes that is another aspect, the way electronic devices consume electricity, such as printers, which cannot be used on a UPS, doing so may cause serious damage to either the UPS or printer as it causes a large spike in electricity.
 
Just today my mother got a knock on the door from a man working for the electric company in Southern New Hampshire. He wanted her permission to put a smart meter on her house. She declined. She said to him, not only are these smart meters bad for your health, but it will be taking jobs away from the meter readers. He then turned and said we haven't had meter readers for a couple of years. Really? So, is her electric bill just a guesstimate on how much electricity she uses a month?

I just sent her a document dump of information on smart meters.
 
donnay said:
H/T: Letsbereal




H/T: jofortruth

Stockton Smart Meters Explode After Truck Causes Power Surge
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015...eters-explode-after-truck-causes-power-surge/
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I had that happen in a place I lived once. Burned up surge protectors, killed many electronics that were plugged in. The Utility paid for everything, no questions asked. You have to be careful though, as you don't realize how many things have been effected right away. They want to pay out quick, so they can avoid further payments. Some electronics only partially work. Just because they turn on and do one thing does not mean they were uneffected.
 
I'd like my SmartMeter well-charred please.
My SmartMeter was so bright it burned itself out.
PG&E giving new meaning to "black" outs.
 
donnay said:
Just today my mother got a knock on the door from a man working for the electric company in Southern New Hampshire. He wanted her permission to put a smart meter on her house. She declined. She said to him, not only are these smart meters bad for your health, but it will be taking jobs away from the meter readers. He then turned and said we haven't had meter readers for a couple of years. Really? So, is her electric bill just a guesstimate on how much electricity she uses a month?

I just sent her a document dump of information on smart meters.
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Update:

The power company went ahead (even after my mother told them not to) and installed the smart meters to her Condo. I have been getting with other people in her Condo and gave them the information about these meters--most of them had absolutely no idea the health issues and the fact they can catch fire and blow up.

They are getting together with the NH Coalition Against Smart Meters to see what legal recourse they have and how to demand them to be removed.
 
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