Group of protesters against smart meters - battle's on!
Smart meter installers will knock on all of our doors.
This problem is not going away.
Devvy Kidd has documented her own battle in stopping the
installation. Her issue is one to consider: her husband who has
severe health problems requires medical machine hookups that
sustain his life. Machines that can be compromised under the new
smart grid. Not to mention, this didn’t stop her energy company
from threatening to shut their power off if they did not comply.
She offers a concise summary of smart meter threats and
how to stop them from entering your area. There is no law
requiring you to consent to these hazardous, Orwellian devices.
Please take advantage of the information below: it’s about the
most concise, yet thorough source on smart meters.
The EMR Policy Institute also offers a great printable
summary
here.
~Health Freedoms
My fight against the ‘smart meter’
(You don’t want one of those
dangerous things on your house)
Despite the fact that I try to keep up with the massive
assault against we the people by the Outlaw Congress and too
many new laws coming out of our state legislatures, no one can
keep up with everything. Which is why I had only read a little
here and there about something called ‘smart meters’. Then, of
course, the problem came knocking at my door.
On April 18, 2011, I received a letter from Reliant Energy
there was a repeat problem with the meter reader having access
to my property. I have locks on both gates because I have dogs.
Last year, some punk opened one of the gates during the night
and my beloved Mr. Willy got out; the locks went on the same
day. I was unaware the meter reader was having trouble since my
husband is always home due to his serious health problems. If he
has to go to the doctor, I’m here. What also waved a red flag
was Reliant’s letter which stated I am required to have one of
their new ‘smart meters’ installed.
So, I call Reliant and they referred me to a company called
ONCOR, a TDSP (Transmission and Distribution Service Provider).
Dialing away, I call ONCOR’s customer service rep and explain
the situation. I also told the lady there is someone at this
house every day; either John or myself. All their meter reader
has to do is knock on the door and he can read the meter. I
thought that was the end of the matter until one day a nice
young man showed up at the door to let me know he was going to
install a ‘smart meter’. I politely said, no you aren’t; he
left.
By that time I had done some research that was beyond
alarming. In early July, while I was gone running errands,
another ONCOR fellow showed up at the door to install a ‘smart
meter’. My husband said, no we will not have one of those
dangerous things attached to our house. The ONCOR installer
informed John that if we didn’t agree to have it installed,
ONCOR would shut off our power with no notice. On July 12, 2011,
I sent both Reliant and ONCOR a certified letter in which I
explained my husband has serious medical problems and depends on
oxygen during the day and a machine at night to keep his heart
from stopping. If they shut off the power, it could have dire
consequences. He is also a cancer survivor, all the more reason
not to have one of those dangerous meters on our house.
On July 22, 2011, I received a letter from ONCOR. They would
shut off the power if I didn’t agree to have the meter
installed. Their letter was also very deceptive. In paragraph 2,
it states, “The EPAct further requires states to consider the
adoption of Smart Metering…”
‘Consider’ does not mean mandatory. In fact, there is no
mandatory requirement by the Federal Government from any quarter
because I looked up every reference resource in their letter.
Referring again to their letter, they state: “…when the Texas
Legislature passed a law (H.B. No 2129) encouraging the
deployment of new advanced meters…” no where does it state
mandatory installation in residences throughout the State of
Texas. It says ‘encouraging’ and it all has to do with federal
bribe money to the states. Surprise, surprise..
ONCOR further cites in their July 20, 2011 letter Section 8 &
9 of H.B. 2129. However, they did not provide the entire bill,
only the sections they thought would benefit their agenda. I
looked up the entire enrolled bill signed into law, there is no
mandatory requirement for forced installation of a ‘smart meter’
in households.
The letter concluded with “Please allow the AMS meter to be
installed at your property, since failure to provide access may
result in suspension of delivery service.”
On July 26, 2011, I had a quick meeting with the County Judge
here in my town. I had prepared a sworn affidavit as well as
exhibits and was seeking a TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) to
keep ONCOR from turning off my power. Judge Barr said he had no
jurisdiction, try the District Judge across the street. Trek
across the street only to be told the one and only District
Judge is in a jury trial for a week or more. Rural Texas. That’s
when I went home and called a state representative I have been
working with on another project; he’s a lawyer when not in
session. I’ll get back to this shortly.
You might ask what is my objection to a ‘smart meter’? Which
one would that be? Health concerns or privacy? Both, actually.
As I said I knew little about this new technology, so about 100
hours of research later and thanks to so many dedicated people
fighting this, here are some of the known problems at this time:
“Those wireless meters on every home and building will
emit huge pulses of microwave radio frequency radiation as
often as every few seconds throughout the day and night,
seven days a week. Our FCC exposure standards only cover
short-term thermal (heating) effects; they do not cover
long-term accumulative exposure, nor do they cover
biological impacts.”
“The World Health Organization has recently classified
the type of radiation emitted from smart meters
(non-ionizing radiation) as a Class 2B carcinogen, on par
with lead.”
“All transmitters inside your home or office will
communicate with a Smart Meter attached to the outside of
each building. That meter, in turn, will transmit at an even
higher frequency to a central hub installed in local
neighborhoods.”
“In what are called “mesh networks,” signals can also be
bounced from house-meter to house-meter before reaching the
final hub. So exposures will not just be from your own
meter, but accumulating from possibly 100-to-500 of your
neighbors’ as well.”
“The scientific evidence for biological impacts from
microwave radiation, known for decades (remember the Moscow
embassy) continues to grow with impacts such as DNA damage,
increased risk of cancers and tumors, cellular stress,
decreased melatonin, decreased sperm, cognitive difficulties
and brain-wave alteration, heart rhythm disturbances, red
blood cell clumping, and impacts on wildlife including to
bees.”
“Wireless radio-frequency radiation from smart meters can
cause medical devices to stop working. Medical implants such
as pacemakers and deep-brain stimulators used to control the
shaking of Parkinson’s disease can be turned off by the
radio frequency interference (RFI) caused by the signal.
These signals are reported in published studies to interfere
with critical care equipment, ventilators, pain pumps,
wireless insulin pumps and other medical devices.”
“Reports from those who have had meters installed include
heart palpitations, dizziness, inability to fall asleep,
memory problems and cognitive disturbances, flu-like
symptoms, worsening of existing health problems, abrupt
depression, agitation, headaches, hearing problems.”
“Radio frequency interference causing malfunctioning of
medical equipment such as pacemakers and wireless insulin
pumps”
“Radio-frequency spikes, causing appliances to break”
“Health effects like migraines, nausea, vomiting, muscle
spasms, heart palpitations and sleeplessness caused by
intense bursts of radiation.”
What do experts say?
Letter from Dr. Magda Havas, S.Sc., Ph.D., Environmental and
Resource Studies Program, Associate Professor of Environmental
and Resource Studies at Trent University in Canada, to the
California Council on Science and Technology at their request
for input regarding Smart Meters: “In my opinion, the FCC
standard for Smart Meters is not sufficient to protect public
health.”
Olle Johansson, Ph.D., Associate Professor (Karolinska
Institute), Professor (Royal Institute of Technology),
Stockholm, Sweden in a letter to the California Public Utilities
Commission, July 9, 2011:
“Many smart meters are close to beds, kitchens,
playrooms, and similar locations. These wireless systems are
never off, and the exposure is not voluntary. The smart
meters are being forced on citizens everywhere. Based on
this, the inauguration of smart meters with gruding and
involuntary exposure of millions to billions of human beings
to pulsed microwave radiation should be immediately be
prohibited until ‘the red flag’ can be hauled down once and
for all”.
Declaration of Dr. David O. Carpenter, M.D, submitted in the
United States District Court, District of Oregon, Portland
Division, June 1, 2011. Sage Associates letter to Susan
Hackwood, Ph.D., Executive Director, California Council on
Science and Technology and Lora Lee Martin, Director, Strategic
Policy Initiatives and Government Affairs, California Council on
Science and Technology: Letter of comment on Smart Meter Report:
“Conclusions of the report are inconsistent with
the report’s more balanced warnings about possible risks to
health. The overall legitimacy of the report is cast into
doubt as a result. …Further, it can be concluded that the
continued roll out of wireless smart meters may increase
public health risks on a widespread basis and should be
reconsidered in light of the existing scientific evidence
and public health warnings for such chronic exposures to
pulsed RF”.
Professor Lukas H. Margaritis, National and Kapodistrian,
University of Athens, Faculty of Biology, Department of Cell
Biology & Biophysics, Electromagnetic Biology Laboratory
“Who can support that the constitution, any
constitution of any country should allow installations to
take place (as the one with Smart Meters) against the rights
for health of the citizens”.
Those are just a tiny sample of what experts have to say
about wireless radio frequency and radiation. A few days ago
someone I do business with here in my town mentioned her mother
recently had a medical emergency and had to go 50 miles to
Odessa to see the doctor; she just didn’t feel good for a few
days and then her blood pressure spiked dangerously. I inquired
if she knew if her mother had a ‘smart meter’ on her house.
Traci looked surprised and said, yes just recently, why? I then
gave her a good overview of the problem, told her to get her
mother to document what happened, write a snail mail letter to
Rep. Landtroop and mail it to his district office, not Austin. A
few thousand letters will get your state representative’s
attention.
As for privacy, do you know there are companies out there
already harvesting your personal data without oversight if you
have one of those ‘smart meters’? No, it’s not a conspiracy
theory. As
Mr. Day writes on his web site:
“That data shows when you are at home, shows when you
are sleeping, shows when you are on vacation, when you
have visitors, when you use a lamp, a power tool, some
extra computers, and if you look like you’re running a
business out of your home. It even senses when you
bootleg energy off the grid.
“Your smart meter shows a vivid profile of your
personal living patterns and if you were home on the
night of the murder.
“This is not electrical metering. This is personal
surveillance. This is a search without a warrant every
day. This is your personal private life going straight
out through your electric meter to your power company,
to your government, to the police, to the insurance
company… to anyone who cuts a deal with your power
company to look at your life under a microscope.
“Sorry, it’s actually worse than that. People who
don’t cut a deal can get your information too, by simply
intercepting the wireless spewing from the side of your
house. Yes, smart meters are radio transmitters licensed
by the FCC. On this all-news radio station, every detail
of your electrical life is shooting off to some
institutional data center somewhere. Already, the police
in Ohio, Texas, British Columbia, and places I don’t
know about, are regularly using smart meter data to
pinpoint marijuana grow houses, enforce business
licenses, and punish people for doing things in the
privacy of their own homes, that you are not supposed to
do, that they would not even know that you were doing,
if they were not spying on you.
“Your power company gets to sell your life story to
whomever it wants. Any unusual power consumption pattern
is considered probable cause to raid you for growing
marijuana or running a computer server without a
business license.”
Think he’s blowing smoke?
California PUC issues sweeping data access orders
“Many young companies have sprung up based on being
able to access consumers’ Smart Meter data and package it in
some meaningful form. So far they’ve had to make their own
assumptions about what data would be available, often
forming alliances between hardware and software companies.”
A jaw dropping violation of your privacy made possible by
your utility company. Those “young companies” don’t care about
your privacy, they want to sell it. How shameful and isn’t it
nice California issues some rules after the cow is out of the
barn?
There are billions of dollars involved with this ‘smart
meter’ business, make no mistake about it. Who
owns ONCOR?
“Oncor Electric Delivery is the electricity
transmission subsidiary of Energy Future Holdings. Private
equity firms TPG Capital, Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts Co. and
Goldman Sachs created Energy Future Holdings by acquiring
North Texas utility business TXU Corp. in October 2007. The
$45 billion deal (including assumed debt) is the largest
leveraged buyout in history.” How about companies who make
the meters?
“Landis+Gyr – This Swiss-based company is one of the
granddaddies of electric metering in Europe, but word of
warning to U.S. competitors: They’re making serious inroads
here, including the massive Oncor smart meter
deployment in Texas; they’re also working with AEP, SMUD,
PG&E and others.
“The company says it has won more than $1 billion in
new orders around the world this year, including major
contracts in Australia, across the Nordic countries, and in
the U.S. And just last week the company announced it
had raised $100 million in shareholder capital to fund rapid
growth in smart metering. Even though the company was slow
to digest and integrate its previous acquisitions, and even
though its U.S. marketing has been lame, I don’t see any
sign that Landis+Gyr is going to be anything but a serious
player.“
I won’t even get into the environmental disaster, livestock
and all the rest of the problems. I fully understand we have to
have a reliable and up to date power supply system in the U.S. I
don’t begrudge utility companies making a profit because I am a
free market advocate. But, not at the expense of human health,
not to mention all this ‘dirty energy’ and what it does to
livestock consumed by humans and to the environment. The only
ones to benefit from ‘smart meters’ will be attorneys
(lawsuits), utility companies and big pharmaceutical companies
from people getting sick and more prescriptions for more pills.
The ‘smart meter’ is an intregal part of something called the
‘smart grid’. Because of copyright issues, I can’t scan the
pages sent to me by a fellow Texan in an email. Try to get a
copy (or check your local library) of the Spring 2011 Industry
Week Magazine. There is a huge article on the smart grid and all
about “controlling energy inside the consumer space” using real
time. That’s you and me. Control us. It discusses the need to
“change attitudes”. That means brain wash people into
‘compliance’ on how much energy you will be allowed to use and
if you go over, think “they” won’t shut off an appliance? Think
again because the utility company controlling those meters can
and will. That’s the whole idea behind the so called “smart
grid”.
Reading the pages my email friend sent from Industry Week was
literally frightening. What also made me want to vomit is how
proud those in the industry are in planning how to control all
of us. Are they that stupid? I guess they don’t mind being a
guinea pig with their every movement inside their own home
tracked and recorded and sold to third parties.
If you think the outlaws in Congress want total control, you
haven’t seen anything yet until you understand what’s going on
in the field of energy, utility companies and companies who make
and provide technology for them. Privacy? If we don’t fight back
against this ‘smart meter’ ‘smart grid’ now, today, you won’t
have any privacy left. We will literally be forced into a world
of constant surveillance because that’s EXACTLY what ‘smart
meters’ are - real time surveillance of you and what goes
on in your house without a search warrant.
Where do things stand right now? I guess you can call it a
stand off for the moment. I’ve had no more visits from ONCOR nor
has anyone come to read the meter. If they knock on the door and
request to read the meter, I will unlock the gate and accompany
them and watch while they read the meter to make sure the fellow
doesn’t try to pull a fast one and install a ‘smart meter’ while
I’m in the house. Nice way to live. Playing games to keep a
dangerous device from being attached right outside our bedroom
window.
The state representative I mentioned earlier in this column
contacted my new state rep. They both have tried to contact
ONCOR, but that upstanding company won’t return their calls.
I’ve also retained legal counsel to get a hearing in front of
the Texas Public Utility Commission. When I spoke with my state
representative last week, Jim Landtroop, he indicated they could
also do something with the TPUC.
I have received dozens of emails from people telling me I
only need put a sign up on my fence that says do not install a
smart meter or send ONCOR a certified letter. Well, here is the
reality of the situation: they can turn off your power without
notice regardless of how many signs you post on your house. Read
the fine print in your contract with your utility carrier.
Likely you’ll find language that says when you sign up with them
you give their company permission to enter your property for
maintenance and installation of their technology. A nice man
contacted me to let me know that for $299.00 people can purchase
a ‘kit’ to block part of the ‘smart meter’. We live on a fixed
income. Why should I have to shell out $299.00 to deface or
tamper with ONCOR’s equipment? I guarantee you, the utility
companies are going to find out and will be at your front door
with a big, fat bill. They could claim your interference with
their equipment knocked out 34 refrigerators in the area and
caused a gazillion dollars in damage. Want to deal with that?
All this research and discussions with state representatives
and my attorney have eaten a massive amount of my time, but time
I have had to spend. Make no mistake — there is a major war
going on all across this country over those meters even though
there is nothing in the MSM or cable networks like FAUX. In
California, ten counties have banned them, but PG & E doesn’t
care, they’re installing them anyway. Folks in one county were
arrested for trying to hold their ground and keep PG & E from
installing them. This is America? The sheriff accompanies
utility workers to force dangerous devices on people’s homes!
Last year there was a huge uproar in the Dallas area because
those meters do not read accurately and people’s utility bills
were double and triple. There are many news items from around
Texas about houses catching on fire during the night because of
the problems with wiring. I could fill a thousand pages on this,
but mark my words: This is a war because it involves billions
and billions of dollars. Oh, one other little thing: Good bye
tens of thousands of meter reader jobs. It will all be done from
a remote location. Humans need not apply for a job.
There was a major landmark case decided in May of this year.
A group of folks out in Maine hired an energy attorney to
represent them in front of the Maine PUC. They won. Utility
companies in Maine must give customers the opportunity to opt
out of having one of those dangerous meters installed on their
home. A blow to the money grubbers for their ‘smart meter’
scheme. Those citizens did it the right way by pooling their
money as a group to hire a good lawyer. Had they lost, could
they file a lawsuit? Yes, but we all know how costly that is
and we the people should not have to spend our hard earned money
fighting utility companies for jumping the gun regarding health
issues for profit.
Legally, I don’t need an attorney to bring my case to the
Texas PUC for a hearing. But, in reality, I do need one because
I need him to protect my rights because he knows the law and
knows how to proceed on something like this, I don’t. Each and
every ruling will have an impact on the rest of the country,
which is why we have to proceed as quickly as we can, but not
risk getting bad decisions on the books. Right now, Maine’s PUC
issued a land mark ruling. We can do it in all the states.
For those who have the ‘smart meter’ on your house, if you
have any ill health effects, document them in detail. Contact
your state representative and provide him/her (snail mail) with
facts. The links below represent expert opinions you can print
out and include. It doesn’t matter if your legislature is out of
session. Ours is until January 2013, but my state representative
is on this and if you do the same in your state, I am confident
we will see more legislators step up to the plate. At the end of
your letter, ask your state rep if he/she wants one of those
surveillance meters on their house and the data sold to outside
third parties without your permission? Ask them if they want
something so dangerous next to him/her and their family?
If you live in the State of Texas, I hope you will contact
me. Whether you have the meter yet or not, it is better to have
many complainants to the TPUC and also help to pay the attorney
I have retained. I’m doing all the research to help cut down on
billable hours, but even though Tommy is a friend, he cannot
work for free. If a few dozen of us share the cost of legal
counsel, get this in front of the PUC and prevail, we help all
Texans as well as other states.
I don’t just want the TPUC to issue a ruling that says we
have the right to opt out, I want them (if they have the legal
authority) to order ONCOR and other companies in Texas who
install those meters to remove them at their cost and reinstall
the old analog meters that work just fine. Because companies
like ONCOR have, without your permission, subjected their
customers to a dangerous piece of technology and literally are
conducting wire tapping on your residence, THEY, not the
customer should bear the cost of replacement. We’ll also see
what our state legislatures can do about those who have the
meters and want them removed with the utility companies
rightfully paying the cost. A major war and you can bet the big
money will come out with batteries of attorneys and lobbyists to
fight the legislatures.
What happens if the Texas PUC says no? Then, we go to the
next step which might involve a lawsuit. However, and this is
where legal counsel is so important: A lawsuit was filed here in
Texas last year pro se, but was kicked to the curb. I believe we
have to start at the administrative level first and that is your
state PUC. And — your state representative. All state
legislatures can call an emergency session. Here in Texas, the
vile political animal and globalist, Gov. Rick Perry, issued an
Executive Order in 2007 to force all young girls in this state
to take the deadly cocktail known as the HPV vaccine. Our
legislature held an emergency session and over rode his EO. I
know everyone is so buried in this fire and that, but the health
of you and your family is top priority and this can’t wait.
Again, if you live in Texas and want to join with me, please
send me email:devvyk@earthlink.net
Please share this column with your mailing lists, family and
friends because those dangerous smart meters are now on the
houses of millions of Americans with more than one hundred
million houses and apartments buildings to go, as well as all
retail and commercial buildings in the entire country. Time is
of the essence because as I said, this involves big money and
big plans by people who do not care the least about our health
and privacy. Only bigger profits at our expense. I refuse to be
used as a guinea pig, but my whole neighborhood has those smart
meters. The readings gather from house to house to house as they
make their way to the data collection point, so we are still
getting some of it. My husband’s hearing aid has been going
haywire the last six months. I believe it’s because of all the
‘smart’ meters in my neighborhood.
There are dozens of very good web sites on the ‘smart meter’.
It has taken so much time to go through them. This one is very
good:
http://www.w4ar.com/Smart-Meters.html
The documents below are the exhibits for my attorney; you can
use them, too. I know it’s a lot of printing, but a few are
going on a CD because they are 50 to 100 pages. However, it’s is
critically important to be well prepared because there are
reports and analysis going to some of the PUC’s in states like
California written by individuals and/or firms who receive
funding from the utility companies. In other words, conflict of
interest. All those reports claim there are no health risks from
‘smart meters’. The same claims were made a decade ago about
cell phones and now people around the world know different.
We all owe a debt of gratitude to the individuals below for
putting so much time into their reports and assessments and
making them available on line so we have the ammunition to fight
the powerful utility companies.
“The radiation readings were so high”
Declaration of Dr. David O. Carpenter, M.D
Submitted in the United States District Court, District of
Oregon, Portland Division, June 1, 2011.
Dr. Carpenter was educated at Harvard Medical School and is
currently Director of the Institute for Health and Environment
at the University at Albany and Professor of Environmental
Sciences within the School of Public Health. Formerly Dean of
the School of Public Health at the University of Albandy and the
Director of the Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research
of the New York State Department of Health.
His entire statement should be a huge wake up call regarding
ELF and RF.
Sage &
Associates Environmental Consultants
And, a second report from Sage
& Associates (put on a CD as it’s 69 pages)
Addendum -Assessment of Radiofrequency Microwave Radiation
Emissions from
Silver Springs OWS-NIC514 – Model Wireless Electric Meter
February 18, 2011 – another one for a CD because it’s very
lengthy
Assessment of Radiofrequency 100 pg report (put on a CD)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Faculty of
Biology
Department of Cell Biology & Biophysics Electromagnetic Biology
Laboratory
Professor Lukas H. Margaritis – Greece
Olle Johansson, Ph.D., Associate Professor (Karolinska
Institute), Professor (Royal Institute of Technology)
And: Olle
Johansson, Ph.D., Associate Professor (Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm) to the Maine State Legislature
Dr. Magda Havas, S.Sc., Ph.D., Environmental and Resource
Studies Program, Associate Professor of
Environmental and Resource Studies at Trent University in
Canada, to the California Council on Science
and Technology at their request for input regarding Smart Meters
“Health Impacts of Radio Frequency from Smart Meters”
Comments on the Draft Report by the California Council on
Science and Technology
Hebrew University-Hadassah
Letter from a physician to the Maine PUC about a patient
Comments on California Council on Science and Technology’s Smart
Meter Report, January 2011 Nancy Evans, Health Science
Consultant, San Francisco
New Study: Radiation from Cordless Phone Base Station Affects
the Heart
Smart meters do not save energy. Press Release from
Connecticut’s Attorney General Jepsen Urges State Regulators to
Reject CL & Ps Plan to Replace Electric Meters – February 8,
2011
Some
SmartMeter Customers Say Devices Make Them Sick
Smart meters: public health nightmare or public utility boon?
Consumers Are Getting Sick From Wireless Smart Meters
Legislative Letter – To Members of the Michigan House of
Representatives, Michigan Senate, and Adminstrative Officers
The Green Sheen Wearing Thin- How Corporate Environmental
Organizations are Providing Cover for the Mounting Ecological
Catastrophe of the “Smart Grid”
MIT: Smart meters could cause grid instability
Obviously didn’t work, but at least he tried. Not based on
health concerns:
Third Texas lawmaker urges a smart meter moratorium
Source:
http://www.devvy.com/new_site/smart-meter-081511.html
Health Freedom Alliance
Health & Wellness Foundation
CHAD Foundation
http://www.