Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle
At an August meeting of the PG&E Santa Rosa Customer Advisory Group, Tavares was told by an attorney representing the utility company that, because Smart Meter installation was mandated by the CPUC, PG&E could not be held liable or responsible in any lawsuits claiming health problems caused by the devices. Tavares and her husband are concerned about their liability if Smart Meters do create health or environmental hazards that are uninsurable. “Southern California Edison and PG&E are installing equipment on our buildings without our permission. We want to be indemnified against the health risks by PG&E or the CPUC if there isn’t a study conducted [on those risks]. Property owners of multi-family construction aren’t aware of what’s coming down on them due to these uninsurable risks. She believes exposure to Smart Meters will trigger “a wave of lawsuits” similar to those triggered by mold exposure and construction defects in multi-family developments. She also believes Smart Meter installation is a breach of privacy, a stretch of the terms of a utility easement and poses a security risk if savvy computer outlaws hack into the system. For more information, Tavares encourages visiting
www.refusesmartmeters.com. Because Tavares’ tenants each have their own electric meter, Tavares wasn’t aware that Smart Meters were being installed in Southern California until it was too late to protest, but, “We’re fending them off one of our apartment buildings in Santa Rosa at the moment,” she says, because, “we refuse to be the first line of legal defense” against the litigation she believes is coming. The Sonoma County Republican Central Committee has come out against
SmartMeters for privacy reasons. Decrying the devices as “Big Brother” intrusions into our everyday lives, a resolution authored by Central Committee member (and president of the California Eagle Forum) Orlean Koehle states the Smart Meter deployment is “an invasion of privacy rights and the right to control and use our own property (a violation of the Fourth Amendment).” In an introduction to the resolution, Koehle asserts that the smart grid plan can be traced to “Agenda 21, a plan devised by the United Nations…to exercise more and more control over our lives and property using the excuse of ‘saving the environment.’” Koehle, Tavares, Maurer, and others all encourage resisting Smart Meter installation.
TURN (The Utility Reform Network) has downloadable signs that can be posted on meters or windows requesting the meters not be installed. The TURN website suggests that Smart Meter installers are respecting the signs, for now. (
http://www.northbaybiz.com/General_Articles/General_Articles/Smart_Decisions.php)
Northern California’s Protest Against Smart Meter Reported in World Net Daily Article
FROM JEROME CORSI'S RED ALERT – Here come the energy police! Millions of 'smart meters' installed to monitor electricity usage, Posted: November 14, 2010
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