Deborah Tavares is a Northern California property owner and activist who has sounded the alarm about the underhanded plan underway to force everyone in the U.S. to have Smart Meters installed in their homes and businesses.
Smart Meters needs to be a HOT ISSUE right now because it involves everyone of every political persuasion – left or right; Democrat, Republican, or Independent. Your political party affiliation doesn’t matter.
Smart Meters emit harmful radiation that has caused people to get sick. Unfortunately, government officials are taking a blind-eye approach to reported problems associated with Smart Meters.
With the backing of billions in federal stimulus money, utility companies are actively embarked on a plan to dictate both utility costs and usage. Even worse, we have a classic case where major media (MSNBC) is in bed with companies (General Electric) that are poised to reap huge profits from the sale of all the mandated appliances that will be required in order to use the new system. IMAGINE THE COST OF REPLACING ALL YOUR HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES! Moreover, Smart Meters will make it possible for utility companies to shut off your electricity remotely.
As a first step in fighting back, Deborah recommends that everyone log onto the Refuse Smart Meters website that contains relevant articles of interest as well as links for purchasing weather-durable tags, signs, and labels you can use to prevent these meters from being installed on your property.
Deborah is available to speak to groups about the dangers of Smart Meters and can be reached by email by clicking this link.
PUC division pushes for SmartMeter health probe
San Francisco Chronicle
Nov. 18, 2010
Death and profits: The utility protection racket
Online Journal
Oct. 18, 2010
– SAY NO to health effects from radiation
– SAY NO to increased utility costs
– SAY NO to required appliance change outs
– SAY NO to invasion of privacy
– SAY NO to remote shut downs
– SAY NO to uninsurable consequences
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Submitted by our radio guest, Deborah Tavares:
If your utility company has installed the smart meter on your property or where you live, you need to read this!
Click here to download a PDF document prepared for use in California. Some or all of the information in this document may be useful in other states as well.
If we can get a couple thousand utility customers to file small claims across the state, this will be the collective will of the people that cannot be resisted.
Smart meters:
By CAROLE BRODSKY
The Ukiah Daily Journal
Updated: 01/19/2011 01:13:35 AM PST
“Study the data and contact PG&E and your elected officials if you aren’t comfortable with smart meters,” says Greg Krouse, who offers guidelines on how to alert PG&E for residents wishing to forego smart meter installation.
A PG&E Smart Meter representative will be in Ukiah to answer questions on Thursday from 1 to 5 and Friday from 9 to 1 in the County Administrative Building, Conference Room B.
PGE’s official smart meter website: http://www.pge.com/smartmeter/
To place your household on PG&E’s delay list, phone (866) 743-0263.
For information on smart meters issues, visit http://emfsafetynetwork.org/
Full Report, click here.
Are we heading for a Smart Grid ‘Inconvenient Truths’ Experience?
Gary Hunt’s PWRgeek blog
Posted Jan. 19, 2011
There is something more anxious in the voice and writings of the smart grid crowd these days. It is fear. You can tell it from the changed tone in their messages. There is less swagger and bravado. But there is also more complaining that utilities as the primary catalysts for smart meter implementation spurred on by Federal Stimulus money are bungling the job of customer education and thus making it much more difficult for smart meter vendors to keeps sales momentum going in the face of such opposition.
Both the trade press and the mainstream media seem to have more coverage about the problems of smart meters, customer complaints, health concerns and a range of issues.
The smart meter vendors are getting testy because customers keep asking questions about the impacts of installing the meter on the side of their house. Utilities have underestimated the customer reaction. Regulators are flatfooted and like deer in the headlights over how to respond. Science reports saying you smart phone is riskier than your smart meter just isn’t cutting it.
Customers care more about the impact on their utility bills. Smart meters are getting the blame for the cumulative costs of paying for the sum of renewable energy, emissions reduction, smart meters and the need for rate cases to keep investors dividends and returns competitive with the alternatives. These other issues are often a distraction but the cumulative impact of the piling on has vendors nervous that utilities will start holding them accountable for customer education in the next wave of smart meter deployment.
You remember how that game is played—-Bring me someone to hang! Yikes!
Mendocino considers stalling SmartMeters
By GLENDA ANDERSON
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Published: Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 6:52 p.m.
Stop Smart Meters! Exclusive: Interview with the Wellington Energy Whistleblower
Posted on January 26, 2011
by onthelevelblog
Wellington Energy is the company that is installing PG&E’s new wireless ‘smart’ meters in California. A former Wellington Energy employee sent us an e-mail late last year offering to speak with us about his experience installing smart meters in the San Francisco Bay Area.
http://stopsmartmeters.wordpress.com/
New Electricity Meters Stir Fears
The New York Times
By FELICITY BARRINGER
Published: January 30, 2011
INVERNESS PARK, Calif. — Pacific Gas and Electric’s campaign to introduce wireless smart meters in Northern California is facing fierce opposition from an eclectic mix of Tea Party conservatives and left-leaning individualists who say the meters threaten their liberties and their health.
Wikipedia: Highett is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Highett woman gets Smart Meter shock
Moorabbin Leader
31 Jan 2011
http://tinyurl.com/4nrqvpx
According to the TIME article, the Salada family who were affected by the utility rate increase had to move from their former home (they lived in Fremont, Calif., close to Silicon Valley) because they couldn’t afford to make the payments.
Rage Against the Machine
TIME Magazine
By TOM MCNICHOL
Monday, Jan. 10, 2011
Deborah Tavares, our radio guest back in December, was one of two California women arrested on Jan. 11 for blocking smart meter trucks at Wellington Energy’s deployment yard in Rohnert Park, CA. Her court appearance date was held earlier this week (Feb. 1).
Below is a link to a press release about her arrest.
[PDF] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Smart meter Grandmothers arrests January 11th, 2011
Next-up.org
Other smart meter links:
California County (Marin Co.) Criminalizes Smart-Meter Installations
The New York Times
Jan. 5, 2011
The Canadian Initiative to Stop Wireless, Electric, and Electromagnetic Pollution
WEEP News
Engineer questions SmartMeters’ unintended consequences
WEEP News
21 Aug 2010
“After our house in Half Moon Bay got SmartMeters, we could no longer listen to AM radio. The signals are swamped by loud rasping pulses of noise.”
Independent Study Find ‘Smart” Meter Can Violate Federal Safety Limits
Next-up.org
Smart Meter Installations to Climb Beyond 250M by 2015: Report
By Josie Garthwaite, Nov. 1, 2009
gigaom.com
ScottishPower Ramps Up Smart Meter Trials Following Government Announcement
Press Release: 2 December 2009
ScottishPower has announced that it intends to increase the number of devices it installs in customers homes as it prepares for a full roll-out of the new technology – expected to commence in 2012. Over the next two years, the company plans to increase its trial and install an additional 100,000 plus smart meters, which are designed to help reduce bills and cut carbon emissions.
A smart meter in every UK home come 2020?
CrunchGear.com
11 May 2009
Power bill pain as smart meter cost blows out
Sarah-Jane Collins
theAge.com Australia
May 19, 2010
EMF Safety Network: Smart Meter Comments
“I live in Walnut Creek
My 11/9/09 bill: $168.03,
my 12/9/09 bill: $366.20,
my 1/11/10 bill: $1010.09,
my 2/10/10 bill: $1053.23.
My smart meter was installed sometime in Dec. 09.”
Consumer frustration grows over ‘smart’ meter bills
WFAA.com Dallas/Fort Worth
14 Mar 2010
Smart Meter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Compteur intelligent (for our French-speakers)
Wikipedia
Association Press faults PG&E for not having shutoff valves that could be operated remotely, but makes no reference to the fact that 100% of the homes in San Bruno had smart meters installed when last September’s explosion occurred. Federal investigators are blaming lax enforcement of safety regulations – not the possible role of smart meters – for causing this tragedy.
[San Bruno] Explosion highlights lax pipeline rules
Associated Press
Feb. 5, 2011
YouTube: Man Refuses Smart Meter Installation
UtilityReformNetwork
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LGHlMD7K90
Use the following letter template to send to your state’s public utility commission to request a moratorium on Smart Meter installations. While the template is designed for use in California, if you live in another state, simply modify the text to suit your location.
California Public Utilities Commission
505 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, California 94102
This letter is to inform you that as a California Utility customer, I oppose the installation of wireless Smart Meters at my home. I do not want to be exposed to the radio frequency radiation (RF) from the meters, nor do I want any more RF antennas in my neighborhood. People who have these meters report billing overcharges, security, health and interference problems, and fires.
I will not opt-in to the Smart Grid Home Area Network system by installing an interior meter, nor will I install RF equipped “smart” appliances inside my home.
RF is under investigation as a carcinogen by the World Health Organization and the National Toxicology Program. Blanketing our homes and neighborhoods with a suspected carcinogen, without our consent, violates our right to privacy and safety.
Please impose an immediate moratorium on Smart Meters.
I respectfully request a written response.
Sincerely,
Name
Address
Smart Grid comes costly for households in Germany
International Business Times
August 15, 2010
Click here for report.
Received the following email from a concerned resident about the scheduled installation of a Smart Meter at her home:
“I live in Pacific Grove and received a letter a smart meter was going to be installed in the next couple of weeks. I called yesterday to refuse installation and was told I didn’t have that right but would be put to the bottom of the list. I asked what action could be taken to avert installation, and specifically if a lawsuit was the only way and was dodged. Does anyone here know?”
CLICK HERE to download a PDF document that lists the course of action you should take, such as sending a certified letter to your utility company and posting “No Smart Meters” tags on your gas and electric meters.
PG&E Continues Installing SmartMeters, Despite the Laws and Protests of Municipalities
Written by Dan Oney
PublicCEO.com
February 9, 2011
Consumer Advocate Target of San Bruno “Explosion”?
The Crotch Shot Radio Show
by Sandra Hunt (for henrymakow.com)
Feb. 12, 2011
What are the odds that Jacqueline Grieg, a whistle blower advocating for customers of PG&E, was at home in San Bruno at the epicenter of the “explosion” and died that day, along with her 13 year old daughter. She had previously exposed PG&E for proposing a cost for pipeline upgrades at a rate increase of $4.2 billion, which her research revealed was exaggerated by $3.2 billion. What are the odds of her house being “ground zero” for that blast?
Ripped off by SDG&E & held hostage for property they damaged
On February 10th, 2011
Anonymous (not verified) says:
Upon installation of the smart meter, a power surge occurred and burned up my fridge & electric car which was plugged in inside my garage being charged. I called SDG&E, who denied ANY rsponsibility & was told to call VSI, the sub-contractor who installed the meter. Filed a compolaint for damages with them; they had the complaint a month, then SDG&E got involved! Claims Adj. has admitted cupability & doesn’t know what he’s doing; I lost 38 lbs. since I had no refrigeration for food, I’m Diabetic & only after I called PUC, who contacted Exec. Offices of SDG&E did they issue a check for my fridge only. However, check contains a clause if I endorse it, cash it, my claim for damages is closed! So I’m still without a refrigerator.
Click here for more about this complaint and others.
Analog Electric Meter Anti-Vandalism Protector/Smart Meters
Click here for photos.
Thanks, this is going to help me today.
City Council Discovers ‘Smart’ Meters are not UL Certified
Posted on February 15, 2011 by onthelevelblog
Stop Smart Meters
“Underwriters Laboratory Confirms Meters Not Safety Tested, Raising Fire Safety Fears”
Click here for report.
Human rights defender targeted killing in San Bruno explosion?
Deborah Dupre
Human Rights Examiner
February 15th, 2011 6:19 pm ET
A professional human rights defender was killed at the precise heart of San Bruno’s September mysterious explosion and fire. She could have been victim of a targeted killing, either by drone or smart meter weapons according to recently released citizen investigation reports.
Rights advocate, 44-year old Jacqueline Grieg, now known as the “Erin Brockovich 2” was one of the incident’s eight fatalities, including her daughter, Janessa Greig. The Greigs lived at the epicenter of the explosion. Ms. Grieg was up against Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), the combined natural gas and electric utility provider for northern and central California
http://tinyurl.com/4t5ccqx
Fencing Out the Smart meters
Central Coast News
KION 46
Posted: Feb 11, 2011
Click here for full report.
Experiment raises questions about SmartMeters
Michael Finney
KGO-TV San Francisco
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Click here for full report.
Study: SmartMeters more powerful than thought
KGO-TV San Francisco
Monday, February 21, 2011
Click here for full report.
Forwarded by our radio guest, Deborah Tavares:
WARNING – NEW SMART METER TRICKS “Boosting The Signals”
The utility companies are having trouble with many smart meter accounts and can not get a signal when meters are in metal buildings, buildings with corrugated siding and roofs, in vaults or block buildings. Many isolated smart meters on rural homes and other structures up in hills are having trouble communicating with other area smart meters. When something is wrong with the signal the utility companies are now installing “boosters to amplify” the signals.
The only way a customer would know if they have a “difficult” smart meter is when the utility company comes out to a customers property, and does physical reads of the smart meter after the area is supposed to be transmitting the data to the company. The utility company will change out (swap out) the smart meter with another smart meter when something is wrong with the signal to the utility company either from radio interference or inadequate signals.
When the signal is amplified the signal for the wireless meters can be picked up by the utility meter readers when they drive around the neighbor in vans and “ping” the meters. This is called Automated Meter Reading (AMR) and has been around for sometime. However, given the new EMF/RF technology those utility employees (AMR) driving around doing the remote reads are not told of the intense RF dangers to them in the vehicles.
BEWARE it is related to these circumstances that you could have a booster amplifying your signal and increasing your EMF/RF exposures.
ADDITIONAL WARNING – Smart meter signal problems in warehouses, and the like, with corrugated walls and roofs causes the RF/EMF short waves to refract which means the signals “bounce repeatedly” off the ceilings and walls 100’s of times pulsating into anyone in those locations.