"The Problems With Smart Meters", Wildlife and Humans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yoyETbp1Q8&feature=player_embedded
There are other issues that concern our wildlife, and the effects of being surrounded with a canopy of EMF that will surround bugs, butterflies, pets from the installation of Smart Meters and the broadcast receiving towers. This is an excellent book "Birds, Bees and Humans" by Mark Ulrich, and is available here. It is a German translation in 2010 and the research in it is amazing. All navigational creatures, bees, bats, and butterflies like our Monarch Butterflies in the Pacific Grove, CA Monarch Grove Sanctuary, is magnetite.
Their magnetite allows these creatures to navigate in reaction to the fluctuating electromagnetic fields of the earth, like coming storms. Magnetite is like having another ear so that they can react appropriately. When we create artificial EMF's it is louder than the natural EMF's of the planet. One of the reasons cell phone technology works is that they are louder, and will overpower the earth's natural frequencies, they override it, and they are above it. When we do that, we make these guys (navigational wildlife), work a whole lot harder to know where they are going. There are things like sudden hive collapse where the bee's just didn't come back. One of the things EMF's can do in creatures and humans is upset the nitrous oxide system, and in bees this system is part of their learning, smell and immune system.
There are many parallels to the human system as well. When sudden hive collapse as well as immune disease problems bees began, the scientists that wrote the book stated that they had never seen such a great increase in the bugs that the bees had to contend with...what's going on here. Well, if your immune system is affected either by cell towers nearby, or living in an area where there is a lot of wireless radiation going on could account for this. The last chapter of the book is on human impacts. It lists a progression of health impacts. Again, we are not seeing people dying on the streets and it's very difficult to say "we are all walking around more or less functional. A lot of illnesses are long term and have latency periods. A lot of cancers have 10 years or more latency periods. So, we don't get the immediate feedback that would really help us to identify if something is dangerous nor not. If you put your hand on a hot stove, you know instantly, but with microwave radiation, RF and EMF's people are not getting that instant feedback. PG&E says, well, more research is needed, just keep buying all these appliances, keep hanging around your hair dryer mind you. PG&E did say in their brochure you might want to limit your exposure to hair dryers because hair dryers have huge EMF fields. The further you are away from the source, the more the EMF's drop off over a distance. See more of this article including Radio Interference and Accumulative Effects, as well as all the links. more here http://mocotp.com/posts/smart-meter-health-affects-what-pge-is-not-telling-the-public-for-industry-profit
Pacific Grove City Watch Group - P.O. Box 417, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Pacific Grove City Watch
CRITICAL ACTION
- "You MUST PROTECT YOURSELF"
- "Box Your Analog Meters - Frame, Chain, Wooden"
- "Utility Commission Committee emails"
- "Protest Sign Ideas"
RED ALERT - ACT NOW
4/19/11 - print and send letter or email to the Ca State Utility Commission Committee - find the letter
in "Utility Commission Committee emails" folder.
ACTION ALERT - Everyone must get involved - or we will all be surrounded.
Monterey County Update Bulletins
- "You MUST PROTECT YOURSELF"
- "Box Your Analog Meters - Frame, Chain, Wooden"
- "Utility Commission Committee emails"
- "Protest Sign Ideas"
RED ALERT - ACT NOW
4/19/11 - print and send letter or email to the Ca State Utility Commission Committee - find the letter
in "Utility Commission Committee emails" folder.
ACTION ALERT - Everyone must get involved - or we will all be surrounded.
--give information to your neighbors, including Wellington’s phone number: 1- 866 - 671 - 1001
--with your neighbors, watch your neighborhood
--take flyers with you and let people know
- check back here for updates, and share this page.
Protest (pick 1, 2 or more to do as you have time):
--stand with a protest sign with a buddy on a busy street corner for an hour or two, have flyers to hand out if people want more information
--contact
--------the PUC -- regarding the opt-out proposal and Smart Meter program
--------Governor Brown
--------Bill Monning, Sam Blakeslee, Luis Alejo, state senators and Assemblymembers
--write letters to the editor
--------Monterey Herald
--------Salinas Californian
--------Monterey County Weekly
--------other newspapers
--file a complaint with the county district attorney
Monterey County Update Bulletins
Please take flyers with you wherever you go, and give to businesses and people you meet. Write Wellington phone number on your flyers (1-866-671-1001) so that people can call that number when they get their letters from PG&E. We need everyone’s help to get this stopped. Flyering, or holding signs protesting Smart Meters with a friend for an hour or two at busy intersections gets the word out.
OTHER RESOURCES
- EMF Safety Network now has a page devoted to the California Council on Science and Technology study and the critiques – great scientific information. It is under the Smart Meter Hazards tab at the top. www.emfsafetynetwork.org
Monterey and Pacific Grove libraries have books with Smart Meter documentation that I’ve put there, for those who don’t have computers. Seaside, Carmel and Salinas will be getting copies as soon as I can get there – this week. The libraries may be reluctant to keep these books. Call the libraries or go by and ask to see these books. Most of the libraries will have a three-volume set.
The District Attorney complaint form is in Vol. 1 to copy.
You Must Protect Yourself
1 - Box and chain up your electric and gas meters - YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN - see intructions and photos TOP RIGHT.
2 - get your keys back from PG&E, change your security code on your gate - If you have a gate lock or code to get to your meter and you’re changing it to keep Wellington and PG&E out, call Kathy at to let them know 831-241-1893
2 - get your keys back from PG&E, change your security code on your gate - If you have a gate lock or code to get to your meter and you’re changing it to keep Wellington and PG&E out, call Kathy at to let them know 831-241-1893
3 - Once you receive a letter from PG&E stating that they "will be installing SmartMeters in your neighborhood soon", call Wellington (the installation company) at 1-866-671-1001 - M-F, 8am-8pm, and ask them if they have a "work order" for your house. Give them your physical address and they can check. If they do have a work order for your location, tell them you don't want a SmartMeter. They won't argue with you. They will send your "work order" back to PG&E, and they will not schedule your house for installation.
4 - If they don't have a work order for your house, then you'll need to check back with them again. If at any point you receive a letter from PG&E, saying that they are about to install in your neighborhood, that is the point at which to make certain to call Wellington and strongly decline a SmartMeter. (They don't want trouble, and they feel this is PG&E's problem, not theirs, so they'll send the "work order" back to them.)
5 - Then, call PG&E 3 or 4 business days after speaking to Wellington, to make certain that they received back the work order from Wellington. Call this number: 1-866-743-0263.
These steps should hopefully buy us enough time for the "Opt -Out program" from PG&E to come into being.
6 - If you want to, you can also call PG&E at 1-866-743-0263, and insist on being put on their "delay" list. (This doesn't guarantee anything, however, and shouldn't be considered your "protection". But, it's probably a good idea to do this, too.)
Even if you aren't worried about SmartMeters, those of your neighbors who are electrically sensitive or have compromised health would be very grateful if you could PLEASE take these steps to help keep our neighborhoods protected from unnecessary and toxic radiation from these meters.
It will also help us prevent rising PG&E rates during peak usage hours, and also prevent the loss of privacy that these meters inherently are.
Nothing will stop them from getting to your meter except you.
Protests - Signs
Ban Smart Meters
Stop Smart Meters
Smart Meters harm our communities
Microwave rf harms DNA
PG&E puts profits before people
Safety first
Halt Smart Meter program
Smart Meters make people sick
Smart Meters = problems
Gov. Brown, halt this program!
Smart Meter Opt out is a Joke
I will not pay for your mistake.
Utility Commission Committee
NOTE: below email addresses are all in one building. To email ALL, simply copy and paste the whole list.
California State Assembly
Committee on Utilities and Commerce
Committee Phone (916) 319-2083
Assemblymember.Bradford@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Fletcher@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Buchanan@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Fong@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Fuentes@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Furutani@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Gorell@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Hernandez@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Huffman@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Knight@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Nestande@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Skinner@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Swanson@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Valadao@assembly.ca.gov
4/19/11 - Letter to the Utility Commission Committee
California State Assembly
Committee on Utilities and Commerce Committee
You are considering Smart Meters and their future.
Below is an article about the uproar in Maine and proposed legislation there, and an outstanding comment regarding Smart Meters and why they and the much-touted Smart Grid don’t work in reality.
A mistake is a mistake. The ramifications of this program were never sufficiently investigated, and we are dealing with the fall-out from that now.
Introduce this legislation for the residents of California:
Whereas, substantial and serious problems and issues have arisen with the deployment of the Smart Grid/Smart Meter program in the state of California and in other states,
Including billing increases, health problems, environmental impacts, privacy issues, interference, and job loss, brought to our attention by the public,
Whereas, the California Public Utilities Commission has not undertaken thorough, substantive investigations into these issues, dismissing applications filed with them, disregarding the advice of the Division of Ratepayer Advocates, and disregarding the growing opposition and concerns of the public and their elected officials; and
Whereas the actual benefit to the public, and the energy savings from, the Smart Meter/AMI program is questionable, leading the Attorney General of Connecticut to file a brief opposing their proposed AMI program; and
Whereas the continued use and deployment of Smart Meters in California poses a clear and present threat to the well-being of the residents of the state of California, risks including privacy, security, health, accuracy, and consumer fraud; and
Whereas immediate action is needed to address these issues, because inaction will allow these problems to continue and, in all probability, compound, to the serious detriment of our constituents throughout the state,
Whereas the California Constitution, Article 1, Section 1, is very clear about the substantial “inalienable” rights of the residents of this state, including the right to enjoy and defend our life and liberty, protect our property, and pursue and obtain “safety, happiness, and privacy;” and
Whereas the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act states: "The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them...The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created." The people of California, not the public agencies they have appointed, have the ultimate authority to decide on their own behalf; and
Whereas, common sense concurs,
We, the legislators of the State of California, do take the following immediate actions:
- An immediate halt to the Smart Meter/Smart Grid program statewide, including a halt to the installation or activation of Smart Meters and infrastructure and including water meters
- Immediate deactivation of existing Smart Meters and infrastructure statewide
- A prohibition on the disposal of analog meters, and a requirement that they be securely stored in California, in the areas from which they were removed.
- Immediate public hearings and investigation into Smart Meter problems, including rf health, safety, and environmental issues
- An investigation into the California Public Utilities Commission and its ties to industry, and recommendations made for reform, including replacement of staff and commissioners, including those with conflicts of interest, and an examination of all records related to consumer complaints and health problems related to Smart Meters, including phone conversations, correspondence, and contacts with customers including site visits.
- An investigation into California utility companies, consultants, and contractors, including subpoena of all records related to consumer complaints and health problems related to Smart Meters, including phone conversations, correspondence, and contacts with customers including site visits.
Sincerely,
Your constituent,
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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After I refused to have the contractor install the new PG&E "smart meter" on my property (and had him document my reasons why) in Pacific Grove in January, I have just received a letter from PG&E to call their office at: 1-866-743-0263 to "schedule an appointment for my meter upgrade". Do you have any suggestions on how I should proceed at this point? I DO NOT WANT THIS GADGET INSTALLED ON MY PROPERTY. Thanks for your consideration.
ReplyDeleteThis is the process. Call them and tell them to put you on the "do not install/opt out plan", and/or box your meters and keep them out and off your property.
ReplyDeleteYou don't need a reason why, it's simply your preference. That's all they need to know. All the best.