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


Successes: Resolutions/Ordinances against Smart Meters by Central Committees, Cities and Counties


More than 22 cities and three counties in California have already launched formal objections to the mandatory deployment of Smart Meters. The leading purveyors of smart grid products would be wise to think through a greater diversity of options for deploying the smart grid, while simultaneously building the scientific record on accumulative impacts of electromagnetic radio frequencies. Millions of dollars are potentially at stake. Of course, a more complicated matter will be who will pay for these alternatives if only a small minority of customers “opt out” of standard smart meter offerings. The following are some of the resolutions, ordinances and moratoriums that have been written against the meters:


Sonoma County Republican Central Committee


Resolution against Installation of Smart Meters Submitted by Orlean Koehle, October 20, 2010, and was unanimously passed (shown on page 3)


Suggested Resolution Against Smart Meters for Sonoma County


Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Suggested Resolution against Installation of Smart Meters Submitted by Orlean Koehle, October 26, 2010


Whereas California’s Public Utility Commission has mandated Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), in participation with Wellington Energy, to remove analog meters and replace them with “smart meters” without permission and often without any awareness from their customers;


Whereas many California residence and even elected officials from some cities and counties consider this “deployment” – (the word chosen for the attachment of the smart meters by PG&E) as an invasion of privacy, a threat to private property rights and documented health risks, and encroachments (over burdening) of utility companies easements;


Whereas Smart Meters by remote control would control and regulate the thermostat, air conditioning, and all electrical appliances, and could lower the output or shut them down. The eventual goal is to mandate the replacement of all appliances to those that contain RFID chips. All this is an invasion of privacy rights and the right to control and use our own property (a violation of the 4th Amendment);


Whereas the Smart Meters contain electromagnetic-radio frequency waves that have been documented to affect health, such as loss of memory, dizziness, nausea, migraines, muscle spasms


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