Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle
hundred complaints had been received by PG&E in Northern California because of higher faulty rates. (p. 5-7) (
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Moves-To-Stop-SmartMeters- 96618524.html) 9. Problems in Accuracy – 43,000 cases in Northern California: April 26, 2011, Helen Burt, PG&E's senior vice president of customer relations, after intense interrogation finally admitted before the state Senate Select Committee on the Smart Grid that 9,000 of their Smart Meters had not communicated energy usage back to PG&E; more than 11,300 Smart Meters simply failed to work and another 23,000 Smart Meters were installed improperly. (ABC Channel 7 TV news, KGO “7 on Your Side,” S.F., 5/26/11) (p. 6) 10. Smart Meters are Heating Up and Charging Higher Costs: On May 3, 2011, it was reported that some Smart Meters err in calculations when the temperature outside is over 100 degrees, causing a higher billing for their customers. (SF Chronicle, 6/3/2011,“PG&E Finds Some Smart Meters Erred When too Hot,” (
http://www.sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?f=/) (p. 7) 11. The Department of Energy’s Stated Purpose of the Smart Grid is to reduce carbon emissions and green house gases. Why? CO2 is piped into green houses to make the plants grow. CO2 is what has produced a green planet over the life time of the earth. It is not a pollutant. Since global warming is being so thoroughly discredited, the mantra is now “climate change, and promoting clean, green, renewable energy.” 12. The Smart Meter Program is really about “Changing Our Behavior”: The system does not deliver more efficient use of energy and isn’t meant to. Those behind the Smart Meter Program proudly admit that the program is really about “changing our behavior.” The program is about “rationing” energy and controlling our lives, using the excuse of saving green house gases and preserving energy resources. (p. 114) 13. Smart Meters are Surveillance Devices that are Violating Federal and State Wiretapping Laws: They are recording and storing data of private and personal activities and behaviors without the consent of the people who are being monitored. Such data could be recorded as medical conditions, sexual activities, physical location of people in the home, vacancy patterns, personal habits, illegal activities such as growing marijuana (Jerry Day -You Tube Video,
www.inforwars.com; Smart Meters are Surveillance Devices,”) 14. Smart Meters are not Mandatory: The Energy Policy Act of 2005 does not mandate Smart Meters: It only mandates utilities to “offer” them and to install them “upon customer request.” (a) Adoption of Standards.--Section 111(d) of the Public Utility; Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2621(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following: (15) Interconnection.--Each electric utility shall make available, upon request, interconnection service to any electric consumer that the electric utility serves. (Section 1252, pp. 370-374) (p. 8) 15. The Law Says Procedures are to be Just: The Energy Act of 2005 also states: “All such agreements and procedures shall be just and reasonable, and not unduly discriminatory or preferential.'' [Page 119 STAT. 971] Many people would say that forcing a smart meter on their home without any permission or prior knowledge was not being treated with justice or with reason. For those who have low incomes and their utility rates have skyrocketed, so much so that they have been forced to leave their homes, they would say this was “discriminatory and preferential.” 16. States Rights Over Federal Law The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution leaves to the states whatever is not mentioned in the Constitution. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively and to the people.” The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007) contains two sections (secs. 532 and 1307) that also add additional “States-must-consider” standards to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA).” The “states must consider” does not mean the states must comply. (pp. 128-132) 17. Much Money Used to Entice the States to Take the Big Carrot: Billions of dollars loaded into the Economic Stabilization Act 2008, $3.4 billion, and $4.5 billion of the Stimulus 2009 package are buying access to individual states and swaying the governors of the states to go along.
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