Category Archives: Impacts

Smartmeter Poem: “The Devil” by Ellen Cecil

The Devil Smart Meter Satire (c) Copyright 2011 Ellen Cecil Adapted from an original Poem by Anonymous Men don’t believe in a devil now as their fathers used to do. Yet they’ve opened the door to Smart Meter Hell to … Continue reading

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Smartmeter Radiowaves can Interfere with Medical Life Support Devices

Health harm and deaths have been caused by radio frequency devices: “Hundreds of incidents of RFI induced medical device failure have been reported, studied, and summarized.” (IEEE, “Radiofrequency Interference with Medical Devices”, 1998) “Smart”meter Radiowaves can interfere with phones, WiFi … Continue reading

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Are Illegal Smartmeters causing Fires in California?

California state law seems to require all electric devices hooked into the state electric power grid to have electrical certification. Are Smartmeters Illegal?

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Smartmeters on PG Agenda this Wednesday March 9th

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Seaside Council Unanimously Adopts Emergency Smartmeter Ban Ordinance

Here is an excerpt from the brand new Emergency law : “From and after the effective date of this ordinance, no PG&E SmartMeter may be installed in or on any home, apartment, condominium or business of any type within the … Continue reading

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Monterey Council Unanimously Demands PG&E Stop Smartmeter Installations

A Resolution “Demanding” PG&E stop installing “Smart”meters was unanimously adopted by the City Council of Monterey tonight March 1, 2011.

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Water Wars: Ron Weitzman’s “Water Plus” has Joined the Dark Side

Monterey County Developers are Dancing in the Streets now that Ron Weitzman’s group “Water Plus” is taking big steps to destroy our Water District. Our Water District, with all of its faults, is the only legal barrier standing between our … Continue reading

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“Smart”meter Complaints

Since PG&E and the Public Utilities Commission don’t care about harm to you from “smart”meters – HOPE invites you to submit your complaint here in the “Reply” section below. HOPE will compile them and submit them together. Please describe whether … Continue reading

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Draft: Emergency Smartmeter Moratorium Law for Pacific Grove

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What’s Wrong with “Smart”meters?

What’s all the fuss about PG&E’s “Smart”meters for our electricity and gas? Aren’t they supposed to show us our power usage “live” so we can cut back on excessive power use and save money? That was the idea – before … Continue reading

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Cal-Am Water Corp trying to pull another Fast one

Is Our Peninsula’s for-profit water corporation, California-American Water Corp. (or Cal-Am), Improperly Trying to Connect another Subdivision? You are invited to the Hearing this Monday the 7th in the Monterey City Hall Conference Chambers. 10 AM Hwy 68 Coalition (the … Continue reading

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Pacific Grove Officials Willfully Blind to Obvious Environmental Impacts

Pacific Grove, like many other California cities, has a long track record of systematically avoiding compliance with a well-accepted environmental process law called CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act). In spite of Pacific Grove losing some 40 percent of its forest … Continue reading

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New Pebble Beach Forest Destruction Project Already Going Wrong

The new Pebble Beach Project is already going in a bad direction. 1. The County is preparing to hire the same company (Jones and Stokes) that wrote the horrible, politically biased and legally faulty environmental harm analysis (the EIR) for … Continue reading

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New Pebble Beach Forest Destruction Project Still Has Serious Problems

Helping Our Peninsula’s Environment is the organization that lead the successful 15 year effort to protect the native Monterey pine forest from Pebble Beach Company’s (PBC) chainsaws. The effort succeeded when the Coastal Commission rejected Supervisor Dave Potter’s motion to … Continue reading

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