The Calif. Public Utilities Commission President issued a new ruling on Sept. 21 formalizing “Smart”meter delay lists. Now, by September 26, 2011, PG&E’s “Smart”meter installation delay procedures must —
1. Provide information on its website that if a customer currently has an analog meter, the customer may request a delay in the installation of a smart meter. The information shall include instructions for how the customer may make such a request.
2. Provide the customer sufficient advance notice BEFORE a smart meter is installed so that the customer may request that installation be delayed.
3. Place any customer immediately on a “delay list” when they currently have an analog meter and request a smart meter installation delay.
4. Once a customer has been placed on the delay list, a smart meter shall not be installed at the customer’s location unless:
a. The customer contacts PG&E requesting that they be removed from the delay list; or
b. PG&E sends a letter to the Commission’s Executive Director for authority to install a “Smart”meter at the customer’s location. A copy of that letter shall also be sent to the affected customer.
PG&E must receive written authorization from the Executive Director before installing a smart meter at any customer account on PG&E’s delay list.
The problems with this include that this is NOT necessarily a legally binding decision because only one Commissioner decided this. Also there is no requirement that PG&E have a “Delay Program.” So if PG$E junks its entire “Delay Program” these rules are worthless.
References:
Bubank Action – “CPUC President Michael Peevey issues ruling on Smart Meter delay programs”
To read the entire ruling, click here:
http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/efile/RULINGS/143742.htm, or
here: http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/efile/RULINGS/143742.pdf
SMART METER PRIVACY VIOLATIONS.
1. Must-See 4-minute youtube video on Smart meters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8JNFr_j6kdI
SMART METER HEALTH PROBLEMS AND CANCER.
2. The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION on May 31 2011 placed the Non-ionizing radiation coming from Wireless smart meters (and some other wireless devices) on the Class 2-B Carcinogen List.
http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf
3. The NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH months ago (Feb 2011) found biological changes in the brain after only minutes of exposure to non-ionizing radiation.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/305/8/808.abstract
4. LABORATORY SCIENTISTS have observed (1) Human Cell Damage (2) DNA Chain Breaks (3) Breaches in the Blood-Brain Barrier from levels of non-ionizing radiation lower than emitted by WIRELESS Smart meters.
http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/cc-video/
5. INSURANCE COMPANIES Hired Independent Laboratory Scientists and these scientists also observed Cell Damage and DNA Chain Breaks and now the Insurance Companies will NOT Insure Liability damage from Wireless Smart meters and other wireless devices. TV Video (3 minutes)
http://eon3emfblog.net/?p=382
So shouldn’t installation of Wireless smart meters on people’s homes Stop?
Cell Phone use and other devices are Voluntary and can be shut off at the user’s discretion, but Smart meters are emitting radiation 24/7 and can not be shut off.
6. WIRELESS SMART METERS – 100 TIMES MORE RADIATION THAN CELL PHONES. Video Interview: Nuclear Scientist, Daniel Hirsch, (5 minutes)
http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/20/daniel-hirsch-on-ccsts-fuzzy-math/
7. WIRELESS SMART METERS – CANCER, NERVOUS SYSTEM DAMAGE, ADVERSE REPRODUCTION AFFECTS. Video Interview: Dr. Carpenter, New York Public Health Department, Dean of Public Health, (2 minutes)
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?p=3946
8. THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE IN STOCKHOLM (the University that gives the Nobel Prizes) ISSUES GLOBAL HEALTH WARNING AGAINST WIRELESS SMART METERS. 2-page Press Release
http://www.scribd.com/doc/48148346/Karolinska-Institute-Press-Release
9. RADIATION MEASURED FROM SMART METER MOUNTED ON A HOME (once active in the utility system) SHOWS RADIATION TRANSMISSION PULSES APPROXIMATELY ONCE EVERY FOUR SECONDS 24 HOURS PER DAY traveling through the bodies and brains of the inhabitants of that home. Youtube Video (6 minutes, 1st minute is sufficient)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRejDxBE6OE
NOTE: many of the tests on non-ionizing radiation (the type of radiation emitted by smart meters) have been done using instruments other than smart meters because smart meters have only been in people’s homes for a very short time.
But as a Wireless smart meter emits 100 times more radiation than a cell phone, it is not difficult to project. If a machine gun (smart meter) fires 100 bullets in the same time that a pistol (cell phone) fires one bullet, it is not difficult to project the harm that the machine gun can inflict, even if the tests were done with the pistol.
CUSTOMER UTILITY BILLS AFTER SMART METERS INSTALLED.
10. Skyrocketing Utility Bills after installation
TV News Video (3 minutes)
http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/63581287.html?tab=video
11. Systemic Smart Meter Billing Errors Over 200% Uncovered in Australia
TV News Video (7 minutes)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/money/article/-/10241945/power-scandal-exposed/ – video
NATIONAL SECURITY RISKS DUE TO SMART METERS.
12. CIA Director James Woolsey calls Smart grid “Stupid” due to National Security problems caused by so-called smart meters.
News Video (1 minute)
http://www.energynow.com/video/2011/08/10/preview-mix-james-woolsey
The first person to address concern about the Smart Meter was Representative Andrea Boland. She’s going to be on a radio show called EMPact America to be talking about important topics like the Smart Meter, EMP, and other things that people need to be prepared for and be aware of. I listen to their shows all the time on Wednesdays (they have live shows. Not this Wednesday, but next Wednesday the 30th at 12, noon Eastern Time, is when Representative Andrea Boland is going to be on this radio show. It should be really great to listen to, here’s the link: http://empactradio.org/pvp/episode77-andrea-m-boland/
I’d like to see a model of how that would work.