Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle
building permits. It is through our experience with tenants and environment studies that our smart meter journey began. We learned that the utility companies environmental impact studies were WAIVED, a
BIG RED Flag for us, particularly when one utility company told us that the Smart Meter project was not large enough to require such a study. We became exceedingly concerned as we learned more about the Smart Meter project, the required appliance change outs, the remote power shut downs, the increased utility costs, the uninsurable liability consequences, the waived environmental impact study and the complete control at a button that a utility company would have IN OUR HOMES 24/7/365. This is a rationing program designed to reduce “global warming” concerns by reducing our “carbon foot print.” PG&E said it will be about customer behavior changes, when we use appliances in our homes and what appliances they are. They do not appear to be the least bit concerned about the evidence presented to them by the medical and scientific community of the health hazards - that the untested levels of the cumulative RADIATION is harmful. Many of our tenants questioned what we would do when and if the radiation effects
would impact them by the meters that were to be attached to their units on our buildings. I checked with several insurance companies and was told there was no environmental insurance coverage available for these "likely" claims. In fact I was told this could become as large a lawsuit potential as Big Tobacco. We became involved with several local groups that were providing local, national and international information regarding the EMF and RF levels of effects. I was invited by PG&E, our electric and gas company, to participate in a Customer
Advisory Group as one of ten Sonoma County PG&E Customers. That offered me the unique opportunity to speak to their legal council. I asked just how PG&E would weigh in if tenants were to allege symptoms from the radiation. The attorney said PG&E would not be responsible or liable since PG&E was being mandated by the CPUC (California Public Utility Commission). In short, property owners with tenants would become the first line of legal defense should class action law suits occur. It was the utilities requirement on us with their installers and equipment that was being placed on our buildings that they would not stand behind.
We requested a “hold-harmless” or to be “indemnified against insurance claims,” and
they further refused. We asked to be assured on their letter head that the folks concerns were not a problem, that after all the utility companies must be certain there were no safety concerns or they would not be installing millions of the smart meters. The utility company would not offer any such assurance. In fact, the utility said that International, National and California studies did not prove that the EMF/RF was either safe or harmful. I started
RefuseSmartMeter.com and have since gone to various groups alerting folks
to the smart meter concerns. I have spoken to the Eagle Forum with Orlean Koehle, who knows the national President Phyllis Schafly and connected me with her. That is how I was invited to be on her radio show. To date many of our local groups and 20+ cities and counties have backed moratoriums against further deployment of the Smart Meters in their communities. We have just added two actions the folks can take to oppose the Smart Meters. If
your utility company has NOT YET installed a Smart Meter on your property OR if they ALREADY HAVE - YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. GO to
RefuseSmartMeter.com and download the action, it's either a small claims court law suit or a NOTICE tell everyone you know to submit one of these two actions that applies to them, immediately!
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