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<\/a>PG&E's Deadly San Bruno Pipeline FireBall<\/p><\/div>The public has raised very serious concerns about PG&E Smartmeters’ fire danger<\/a>, interference with medical life support equipment<\/a>, non-thermal radio frequency harm to humans and wildlife<\/a>, and broadcast of private personal energy use<\/a>. <\/p>\n RF Medical Device Interference<\/p><\/div>California state law (California’s Environmental Quality Act or CEQA)<\/a> requires an “objective” Environmental Impact Report (called an EIR)<\/a> be provided to the public and public officials BEFORE<\/u> Smartmeters were approved – so the public and decision makers understand the environmental impacts in advance of a decision. What kinds of damage and how much. <\/p>\n The EIR would also objectively identify Alternatives such as the SmartER-meter<\/a> and an Opt-In System, and mitigations such as Opt-Out.<\/p>\n However, no Environmental Impact Report was ever made. Because no EIR was done the PG&E\/PUC collaboration very quietly approved this, then waited long enough for the stature of limitations to expire. Now the burden of collecting evidence of these concerns is reversed and that responsibility is placed on the public.<\/p>\n When an adequate EIR on Smartmeters is prepared it will provide the genuine science on radio-frequency harm to humans and how they could interfere with medical life support devices<\/a>. It will explain and analyze the fire danger introduced by Smartmeter’s new Off-switch<\/a>.<\/p>\n And it should explain the Burglary danger of privacy loss caused by Smartmeters<\/a> broadcasting your personal energy use data Un-Encrypted<\/a>; and how hackers could easily break into the system and shut down power to a whole town — neighborhood by neighborhood.<\/p>\n The only two ways we can get the PUC to prepare an Environmental Impact Report is if they chose do do so – (never going to happen) or when the California Legislature and Governor require them to do so.<\/p>\n So HOPE is preparing a Statewide petition to the Governor and Legislature to have them require the PUC to provide an Environmental Impact Report.<\/a><\/p>\n #################################################<\/p>\n HOPE – Helping Our Peninsula’s Environment provides this news free of charge to the public even though it costs the organization considerable time and money to produce it. We would like to continue to provide this service for free that brings you the best available science and law and the highest quality research. <\/p>\n You can help right now by making a tax-deductible contribution. Please send your tax-deductible contribution (anything you can afford, whether $1.00 or $10,000) to: HOPE, P.O. Box 1495, Carmel, Ca 93921. <\/p>\n Or you may donate through Paypal here — <\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nOur electrical supply monopoly, PG&E, and California’s electric supply agency, the PUC, collaborated to approve Smartmeters without any Environmental Impact Analysis – even though the PUC is required to do so by law (California’s Environmental Quality Act or CEQA)<\/a>. (This is the same PG&E-PUC collaboration that caused the deaths of some 14 people in the 2010 San Bruno Pipeline explosion<\/a>.)<\/p>\n