Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle


remote control phones, and many other remote-control devises, that with the SmartMeters, more and more RF waves will be permeating our homes. There are documented reports of the effects these waves are having on people’s health, such as: loss of memory, dizziness, nausea, headaches, migraines, muscle spasms, insomnia, and even cancer. How high is the amount of radio frequency coming from the meters? The RF is in a dangerous range, between 2.4GHz [GigaHertz] and 5.8Ghz. This corresponds to the electrical signals frequency used to produce radio waves. The worldwide digital wireless communications network is based upon these RF waves. RF has both an electric and magnetic components both of which can cause damage. The fact that it is pulsed radiation waves going into your home every 2-6 seconds is also worrisome. How many meters have already been installed? At the time of this update, December 2011,


some ten million have been installed in Northern California alone by PG&E. Southern California Edison's goal was to have 8 million installed this year. Who knows how many more have been installed in other parts of the country? It is hard to find out the actual number. Now that so much opposition is mounting, the numbers are becoming more hidden. A report back in July of 2009 stated that 8.3 million had already been installed across the (“Greentechgrid," http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/8.3m-smart-meters-and-


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counting-in-united-states.) It is shocking for many of us to find out that the SmartMeters started being deployed back in 2006, with hardly anyone in our nation knowing about them. Who are really behind the SmartMeters and are they mandatory? In California, we are told by PG&E that it is being mandated by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC). (It is probably the same in other states, but their PUC maybe goes by a different name.) However, it is really “supposedly” being mandated across the nation by the federal government, and stimulus money is providing the funding. As you will read later in this chapter, the law asking for smart meters and a smart grid, Energy Policy Act or 2005, only mandates the utilities to "offer" the meters and to install them "upon customer request.” The choice is still supposed to be ours! Smart Meters are not just in the United States: According to a report from Europe, by the


end of 2008, 39 million units had already been installed. Obviously, they are much farther along than the Unites States. (http://berginsight.com/ReportPDF/ProductSheet/bi-sm6-ps.pdf.) By doing more research, one finds out that smart meters are part of “smart growth” or “sustainable development” or “Agenda 21,” a plan devised by the United Nations in 1992, and “symbolically” signed by President Bush Sr. and signed into law and implemented by President Bill Clinton by executive order # 12852 in 1993. The ultimate goal of Agenda 21 and its various programs is to exercise more and more control over our lives and property using the excuse of “saving the environment or saving the planet.” (The last chapter goes into the connection of the SmartMeter program to Agenda 21 in greater detail.) Is it too late to say No to Smart Meters? The installers in Northern California are coming from the Wellington Energy company, who are working for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). They were told to tell any property owners who object and refuse the smart meters that they have no choice. It is mandatory. The people either need to allow them to install them now or will have to pay more for the service when the installer has to return, or they will have no electricity. People who are uninformed give in and allow it to happen. As has been mentioned, the law states that you, the customer, are to have a choice. What can you do? You, the property owner, have every right to object. This is your


property. Your tax dollars are paying for the stimulus money that is providing the funding. Your monthly payment to PG&E, or whoever is your energy provider, pays for their providing you with their energy service. Legally, to say no and to have the installer honor your objection, you must have an official notice signed by you, the property owner (or the tenant) hanging over the meter stating your objection. If you have both an electric meter and gas that PG&E services, hang a sign over both meters. Mine is laminated so it is better protected against rain. A large version is shown after this article that you can copy and hang over your meter) It states: My personal experience – the sign works: On October 20, 2010, I just happened to be on the phone talking to my good friend, Deborah Tavares, who has been very much involved with her 2


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