Good work is being done in Arizona by and for citizens concerned about smart meters. Here is another AZ site.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Anti- Smart Meter Songs and Videos to Share
Check out these creative expressions born out of the fight against smart meters.
Songs:
Dumb! Meter Song: Lyrics by Sandi and Chris Maurer (No. CA)
Salt Spring Part 7 "No Wireless Smart Meter" Protest Rally Song (BC)
SMART METER song sent in by ShaftBottomBoy
Activist Nina Beety performs her 'The Get Rid of Smart Meters Song' (California)
New Rap Song Takes On PG&E (interview): A to Z Smart Meter Rap by Ellen Cecil (California)
Listen to the rap song, plus another song by Ellen, Smart Meter Blues.
Music video:
Smart Meter Pulses,: guitar track put to Amy O'Hair protest talk from 9-14-2011 SAN FRANCISCO [State Building] during a CPUC opt out workshop.
Listen to the rap song, plus another song by Ellen, Smart Meter Blues.
Music video:
Smart Meter Pulses,: guitar track put to Amy O'Hair protest talk from 9-14-2011 SAN FRANCISCO [State Building] during a CPUC opt out workshop.
Smart meter humorous shorts from BC:
Phil Versus the Smart Meter -- Part One
Monday, October 3, 2011
Surgeon General's Warning to go on Cell Phones in San Francisco!
San Francisco Cell Phone Radiation Warnings Start Today
By Sajid Farooq
| Monday, Oct 3, 2011 | Updated 11:49 AM PDT
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Smart Meter Update from Wyoming, Ohio and Maine
Here is a link to more reports from earlier this year of utility bullying of Wyoming and Ohio energy customers over installing wireless smart meters.
And here is an update on the fight in Maine, from Dianne Wilkins, June 12, 2011
Her lawsuit may create precedent to HELP US ALL. (stay tuned)
Comment at EMR Health Alliance of BC
In Maine, 7 people, representing over 70 customers of the electric Utility CMP, filed 7 complaints with the Maine Public Utilities Commission, and recently won the right to opt out of the RF smart meter program (for a fee). Because of the publicity generated by our cases, 7,000 people wrote the utility to ask to opt out of the program. I am one of the 7 lead complainants. The Maine PUC only allowed the opt out option on the basis of economic feasability for the customers and the utility, ignoring our constitutional rights to protect our homes/bodies from harm and to prevent anyone from putting something into our homes without our permission. I am now appealing this decision in the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (case 2010400) to ask the court to define our legal rights and hopefully set a State Supreme court precedent so that all U.S. Citzens can use this precedent to fight this outrageous, unlawful intrusion into our homes! To see all of our court documents, testimony, & exhibits, visit the Maine PUC website, go to “virtual filings” and type in one of our case numbers 2010400, 2010345, 2010398, 2010389, 2010346, 2011085, & 2011120. Hopefully you can use some of the exhibits to support your fight to hardwire the smart meters instead of using radiofrequency waves that emit harmful radiation. Unfortunately, I have filed a Notice of Appeal but have been unable to find an attorney to take this case on a Pro Bono basis. I am still searching and hoping to find an informed, generous, lawyer willing to fight Golieth for us all!
And I echo Dianne: When are the lawyers going to get on this???
And here is an update on the fight in Maine, from Dianne Wilkins, June 12, 2011
Her lawsuit may create precedent to HELP US ALL. (stay tuned)
Comment at EMR Health Alliance of BC
In Maine, 7 people, representing over 70 customers of the electric Utility CMP, filed 7 complaints with the Maine Public Utilities Commission, and recently won the right to opt out of the RF smart meter program (for a fee). Because of the publicity generated by our cases, 7,000 people wrote the utility to ask to opt out of the program. I am one of the 7 lead complainants. The Maine PUC only allowed the opt out option on the basis of economic feasability for the customers and the utility, ignoring our constitutional rights to protect our homes/bodies from harm and to prevent anyone from putting something into our homes without our permission. I am now appealing this decision in the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (case 2010400) to ask the court to define our legal rights and hopefully set a State Supreme court precedent so that all U.S. Citzens can use this precedent to fight this outrageous, unlawful intrusion into our homes! To see all of our court documents, testimony, & exhibits, visit the Maine PUC website, go to “virtual filings” and type in one of our case numbers 2010400, 2010345, 2010398, 2010389, 2010346, 2011085, & 2011120. Hopefully you can use some of the exhibits to support your fight to hardwire the smart meters instead of using radiofrequency waves that emit harmful radiation. Unfortunately, I have filed a Notice of Appeal but have been unable to find an attorney to take this case on a Pro Bono basis. I am still searching and hoping to find an informed, generous, lawyer willing to fight Golieth for us all!
And I echo Dianne: When are the lawyers going to get on this???
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Smart Meters DO NOT save energy
Devvy Kidd has another well-researched smart meter column with lots of information, this time on how smart meters do NOT save energy.
Here are more informative wireless smart meter informational sites worth a look:
Here are more informative wireless smart meter informational sites worth a look:
Smart Meters can reveal your personal habits on the worldwide energy web.
Who gets the power the smart grid creates? Who is in charge of the new technocracy? Not You or Me!
And for people not yet aware of "what's wrong with smart meters" here is a beginner's guide.
"Information is power."
Monday, September 26, 2011
Should Wisconsin Public Utility Institute Ban Public Input?
The Wisconsin Public Utility Institute (WPUI) has announced cancellation of the September 27 Smart Meter roundtable meeting for unspecified “financial” reasons shortly after public notice was given here that a smart meter protest was being planned outside the event.
Citizen inquiries about the event, suggesting a desire to attend and join the discussion, led to clarification that, while citizens could attend (for a $125 fee), they could not participate. Chatham House Rules were also instituted after that first inquiry, so it was against conference rules for attending utility officials to be held accountable for statements they made. Roundtable content could only be discussed in abstract terms. Journalists were not invited. It seems that when it became clear that there would be some coverage, due to the protest, the conference was cancelled.
Wireless smart meters are causing health problems for many individuals. They also pose a threat to national and personal security since data is broadcast wirelessly, making it easy for knowledgeable hackers to obtain data or even shut down large segments of the electrical grid. (See Electrical Pollution or Stop Smart Meters sites.)
Contrary to utility claims, transmitting smart meters are being found to be out of compliance with the FCC. And despite the assertion that "power range of wireless signals from smart meters is much less severe" than WiFi networks or cell phones, smart meters have been measured to give off more radiation than a cell phone TOWER.
The utilities do not "acknowledge" any health effects from the radiofrequency (rf) radiation transmitting devices they install. Yet, they admit the "RF issue" is a Key Barrier to their plans as they scramble to try to control consumer perception and get everyone to happily climb aboard the new system. But people experiencing illness relating to wireless meter installation, and those with concerns about privacy and security cannot or will not climb aboard. This is the precisely the point that needs to be openly, publically aired.
The Wisconsin Public Utility Institute supposedly incorporates the “Wisconsin Idea,” meant to foster outreach, forums and debate on utility policy to benefit the citizens and the state. Their (cancelled) Smart Meter Roundtable violated that mission. WPUI Director Cara Lee Mahany Braithwait told me in an email that Chatham House Rule was common during institute meetings, but none of the other events in their archives mentioned using the rule, or the overt exclusion of public input. So, why expend such great effort to control the information at the Smart Meter Roundtable? And is this a proper use of WPUI resources?
Public participation at the upcoming WPUI Energy Utility Basics 2011 – where smart meters will be a topic – will be curtailed by expense and prohibition of discussion during the “training” sessions. In order to be heard, concerned Wisconsin citizens plan to protest outside the conference during the smart meter segments October 24-28, 2011. Details will follow later.
--co-written by myself and Catherine of Electricalpollution.com.
Citizen inquiries about the event, suggesting a desire to attend and join the discussion, led to clarification that, while citizens could attend (for a $125 fee), they could not participate. Chatham House Rules were also instituted after that first inquiry, so it was against conference rules for attending utility officials to be held accountable for statements they made. Roundtable content could only be discussed in abstract terms. Journalists were not invited. It seems that when it became clear that there would be some coverage, due to the protest, the conference was cancelled.
Wireless smart meters are causing health problems for many individuals. They also pose a threat to national and personal security since data is broadcast wirelessly, making it easy for knowledgeable hackers to obtain data or even shut down large segments of the electrical grid. (See Electrical Pollution or Stop Smart Meters sites.)
Contrary to utility claims, transmitting smart meters are being found to be out of compliance with the FCC. And despite the assertion that "power range of wireless signals from smart meters is much less severe" than WiFi networks or cell phones, smart meters have been measured to give off more radiation than a cell phone TOWER.
The utilities do not "acknowledge" any health effects from the radiofrequency (rf) radiation transmitting devices they install. Yet, they admit the "RF issue" is a Key Barrier to their plans as they scramble to try to control consumer perception and get everyone to happily climb aboard the new system. But people experiencing illness relating to wireless meter installation, and those with concerns about privacy and security cannot or will not climb aboard. This is the precisely the point that needs to be openly, publically aired.
The Wisconsin Public Utility Institute supposedly incorporates the “Wisconsin Idea,” meant to foster outreach, forums and debate on utility policy to benefit the citizens and the state. Their (cancelled) Smart Meter Roundtable violated that mission. WPUI Director Cara Lee Mahany Braithwait told me in an email that Chatham House Rule was common during institute meetings, but none of the other events in their archives mentioned using the rule, or the overt exclusion of public input. So, why expend such great effort to control the information at the Smart Meter Roundtable? And is this a proper use of WPUI resources?
Public participation at the upcoming WPUI Energy Utility Basics 2011 – where smart meters will be a topic – will be curtailed by expense and prohibition of discussion during the “training” sessions. In order to be heard, concerned Wisconsin citizens plan to protest outside the conference during the smart meter segments October 24-28, 2011. Details will follow later.
--co-written by myself and Catherine of Electricalpollution.com.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Anthony Swerdlow telecom investor's study says cell phones safe
Evidence "increasingly against" phone cancer risk
URL of this page:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_113933.html (*this news item will not be available after
10/02/2011)
Monday, July 4,
2011
The Reuters article by Ben Hirschler touted a new study that found no link with brain cancer and cell phone use, despite the World Health Organization's new classification of cell phone use and other wireless radiofrequency sources of radiation as potential cancer agents.
Turns out the guy who led the study and his wife own shares in telecom companies world wide, creating a blatant conflict of interest. Anthony Swerdlow of Britain's Institute of Cancer Research, IARC, "said it should become much clearer over the next few years whether or not there was any plausible link," since his study did not back up the WHO's call for caution.
In plain words, the industry stockholder conducted a study and said he found no link of health harm from the devices he was invested in. So, let the great experiment on the people continue until all studies show harm, even those conducted by industry shills like him. Amazing.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Arizona anti- smart meter contacts
Good work is being done in Arizona by and for citizens concerned about smart meters. Here is another AZ site.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Anti- Smart Meter Songs and Videos to Share
Check out these creative expressions born out of the fight against smart meters.
Songs:
Dumb! Meter Song: Lyrics by Sandi and Chris Maurer (No. CA)
Salt Spring Part 7 "No Wireless Smart Meter" Protest Rally Song (BC)
SMART METER song sent in by ShaftBottomBoy
Activist Nina Beety performs her 'The Get Rid of Smart Meters Song' (California)
New Rap Song Takes On PG&E (interview): A to Z Smart Meter Rap by Ellen Cecil (California)
Listen to the rap song, plus another song by Ellen, Smart Meter Blues.
Music video:
Smart Meter Pulses,: guitar track put to Amy O'Hair protest talk from 9-14-2011 SAN FRANCISCO [State Building] during a CPUC opt out workshop.
Listen to the rap song, plus another song by Ellen, Smart Meter Blues.
Music video:
Smart Meter Pulses,: guitar track put to Amy O'Hair protest talk from 9-14-2011 SAN FRANCISCO [State Building] during a CPUC opt out workshop.
Smart meter humorous shorts from BC:
Phil Versus the Smart Meter -- Part One
Monday, October 3, 2011
Surgeon General's Warning to go on Cell Phones in San Francisco!
San Francisco Cell Phone Radiation Warnings Start Today
By Sajid Farooq
| Monday, Oct 3, 2011 | Updated 11:49 AM PDT
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Smart Meter Update from Wyoming, Ohio and Maine
Here is a link to more reports from earlier this year of utility bullying of Wyoming and Ohio energy customers over installing wireless smart meters.
And here is an update on the fight in Maine, from Dianne Wilkins, June 12, 2011
Her lawsuit may create precedent to HELP US ALL. (stay tuned)
Comment at EMR Health Alliance of BC
In Maine, 7 people, representing over 70 customers of the electric Utility CMP, filed 7 complaints with the Maine Public Utilities Commission, and recently won the right to opt out of the RF smart meter program (for a fee). Because of the publicity generated by our cases, 7,000 people wrote the utility to ask to opt out of the program. I am one of the 7 lead complainants. The Maine PUC only allowed the opt out option on the basis of economic feasability for the customers and the utility, ignoring our constitutional rights to protect our homes/bodies from harm and to prevent anyone from putting something into our homes without our permission. I am now appealing this decision in the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (case 2010400) to ask the court to define our legal rights and hopefully set a State Supreme court precedent so that all U.S. Citzens can use this precedent to fight this outrageous, unlawful intrusion into our homes! To see all of our court documents, testimony, & exhibits, visit the Maine PUC website, go to “virtual filings” and type in one of our case numbers 2010400, 2010345, 2010398, 2010389, 2010346, 2011085, & 2011120. Hopefully you can use some of the exhibits to support your fight to hardwire the smart meters instead of using radiofrequency waves that emit harmful radiation. Unfortunately, I have filed a Notice of Appeal but have been unable to find an attorney to take this case on a Pro Bono basis. I am still searching and hoping to find an informed, generous, lawyer willing to fight Golieth for us all!
And I echo Dianne: When are the lawyers going to get on this???
And here is an update on the fight in Maine, from Dianne Wilkins, June 12, 2011
Her lawsuit may create precedent to HELP US ALL. (stay tuned)
Comment at EMR Health Alliance of BC
In Maine, 7 people, representing over 70 customers of the electric Utility CMP, filed 7 complaints with the Maine Public Utilities Commission, and recently won the right to opt out of the RF smart meter program (for a fee). Because of the publicity generated by our cases, 7,000 people wrote the utility to ask to opt out of the program. I am one of the 7 lead complainants. The Maine PUC only allowed the opt out option on the basis of economic feasability for the customers and the utility, ignoring our constitutional rights to protect our homes/bodies from harm and to prevent anyone from putting something into our homes without our permission. I am now appealing this decision in the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (case 2010400) to ask the court to define our legal rights and hopefully set a State Supreme court precedent so that all U.S. Citzens can use this precedent to fight this outrageous, unlawful intrusion into our homes! To see all of our court documents, testimony, & exhibits, visit the Maine PUC website, go to “virtual filings” and type in one of our case numbers 2010400, 2010345, 2010398, 2010389, 2010346, 2011085, & 2011120. Hopefully you can use some of the exhibits to support your fight to hardwire the smart meters instead of using radiofrequency waves that emit harmful radiation. Unfortunately, I have filed a Notice of Appeal but have been unable to find an attorney to take this case on a Pro Bono basis. I am still searching and hoping to find an informed, generous, lawyer willing to fight Golieth for us all!
And I echo Dianne: When are the lawyers going to get on this???
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Smart Meters DO NOT save energy
Devvy Kidd has another well-researched smart meter column with lots of information, this time on how smart meters do NOT save energy.
Here are more informative wireless smart meter informational sites worth a look:
Here are more informative wireless smart meter informational sites worth a look:
Smart Meters can reveal your personal habits on the worldwide energy web.
Who gets the power the smart grid creates? Who is in charge of the new technocracy? Not You or Me!
And for people not yet aware of "what's wrong with smart meters" here is a beginner's guide.
"Information is power."
Monday, September 26, 2011
Should Wisconsin Public Utility Institute Ban Public Input?
The Wisconsin Public Utility Institute (WPUI) has announced cancellation of the September 27 Smart Meter roundtable meeting for unspecified “financial” reasons shortly after public notice was given here that a smart meter protest was being planned outside the event.
Citizen inquiries about the event, suggesting a desire to attend and join the discussion, led to clarification that, while citizens could attend (for a $125 fee), they could not participate. Chatham House Rules were also instituted after that first inquiry, so it was against conference rules for attending utility officials to be held accountable for statements they made. Roundtable content could only be discussed in abstract terms. Journalists were not invited. It seems that when it became clear that there would be some coverage, due to the protest, the conference was cancelled.
Wireless smart meters are causing health problems for many individuals. They also pose a threat to national and personal security since data is broadcast wirelessly, making it easy for knowledgeable hackers to obtain data or even shut down large segments of the electrical grid. (See Electrical Pollution or Stop Smart Meters sites.)
Contrary to utility claims, transmitting smart meters are being found to be out of compliance with the FCC. And despite the assertion that "power range of wireless signals from smart meters is much less severe" than WiFi networks or cell phones, smart meters have been measured to give off more radiation than a cell phone TOWER.
The utilities do not "acknowledge" any health effects from the radiofrequency (rf) radiation transmitting devices they install. Yet, they admit the "RF issue" is a Key Barrier to their plans as they scramble to try to control consumer perception and get everyone to happily climb aboard the new system. But people experiencing illness relating to wireless meter installation, and those with concerns about privacy and security cannot or will not climb aboard. This is the precisely the point that needs to be openly, publically aired.
The Wisconsin Public Utility Institute supposedly incorporates the “Wisconsin Idea,” meant to foster outreach, forums and debate on utility policy to benefit the citizens and the state. Their (cancelled) Smart Meter Roundtable violated that mission. WPUI Director Cara Lee Mahany Braithwait told me in an email that Chatham House Rule was common during institute meetings, but none of the other events in their archives mentioned using the rule, or the overt exclusion of public input. So, why expend such great effort to control the information at the Smart Meter Roundtable? And is this a proper use of WPUI resources?
Public participation at the upcoming WPUI Energy Utility Basics 2011 – where smart meters will be a topic – will be curtailed by expense and prohibition of discussion during the “training” sessions. In order to be heard, concerned Wisconsin citizens plan to protest outside the conference during the smart meter segments October 24-28, 2011. Details will follow later.
--co-written by myself and Catherine of Electricalpollution.com.
Citizen inquiries about the event, suggesting a desire to attend and join the discussion, led to clarification that, while citizens could attend (for a $125 fee), they could not participate. Chatham House Rules were also instituted after that first inquiry, so it was against conference rules for attending utility officials to be held accountable for statements they made. Roundtable content could only be discussed in abstract terms. Journalists were not invited. It seems that when it became clear that there would be some coverage, due to the protest, the conference was cancelled.
Wireless smart meters are causing health problems for many individuals. They also pose a threat to national and personal security since data is broadcast wirelessly, making it easy for knowledgeable hackers to obtain data or even shut down large segments of the electrical grid. (See Electrical Pollution or Stop Smart Meters sites.)
Contrary to utility claims, transmitting smart meters are being found to be out of compliance with the FCC. And despite the assertion that "power range of wireless signals from smart meters is much less severe" than WiFi networks or cell phones, smart meters have been measured to give off more radiation than a cell phone TOWER.
The utilities do not "acknowledge" any health effects from the radiofrequency (rf) radiation transmitting devices they install. Yet, they admit the "RF issue" is a Key Barrier to their plans as they scramble to try to control consumer perception and get everyone to happily climb aboard the new system. But people experiencing illness relating to wireless meter installation, and those with concerns about privacy and security cannot or will not climb aboard. This is the precisely the point that needs to be openly, publically aired.
The Wisconsin Public Utility Institute supposedly incorporates the “Wisconsin Idea,” meant to foster outreach, forums and debate on utility policy to benefit the citizens and the state. Their (cancelled) Smart Meter Roundtable violated that mission. WPUI Director Cara Lee Mahany Braithwait told me in an email that Chatham House Rule was common during institute meetings, but none of the other events in their archives mentioned using the rule, or the overt exclusion of public input. So, why expend such great effort to control the information at the Smart Meter Roundtable? And is this a proper use of WPUI resources?
Public participation at the upcoming WPUI Energy Utility Basics 2011 – where smart meters will be a topic – will be curtailed by expense and prohibition of discussion during the “training” sessions. In order to be heard, concerned Wisconsin citizens plan to protest outside the conference during the smart meter segments October 24-28, 2011. Details will follow later.
--co-written by myself and Catherine of Electricalpollution.com.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Anthony Swerdlow telecom investor's study says cell phones safe
Evidence "increasingly against" phone cancer risk
URL of this page:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_113933.html (*this news item will not be available after
10/02/2011)
Monday, July 4,
2011
The Reuters article by Ben Hirschler touted a new study that found no link with brain cancer and cell phone use, despite the World Health Organization's new classification of cell phone use and other wireless radiofrequency sources of radiation as potential cancer agents.
Turns out the guy who led the study and his wife own shares in telecom companies world wide, creating a blatant conflict of interest. Anthony Swerdlow of Britain's Institute of Cancer Research, IARC, "said it should become much clearer over the next few years whether or not there was any plausible link," since his study did not back up the WHO's call for caution.
In plain words, the industry stockholder conducted a study and said he found no link of health harm from the devices he was invested in. So, let the great experiment on the people continue until all studies show harm, even those conducted by industry shills like him. Amazing.
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