California’s Bellwether ‘Smart Meter’ Fight
Heats Up
The message?
A Wireless Grid Ain’t ‘Smart.’
For a Wise Grid, Put it in the Wires!
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Three determined women – two young mothers and an ecofeminist author – risk arrest demanding a moratorium on installation of smart meters and essential technical information describing exactly what the emissions are composed of that are making people sick. But PG&E refused to have police make arrests, people theorized, in order to prevent more publicity about the widely criticized meters and the health problems increasingly associated with them. Many PG&E customers are reporting headaches, dizziness, nausea, tinnitus and heart palpitations that began when the new wireless meters were installed. About thirty demonstrators from throughout the Bay area participated.
National Industry Eyes are on a Growing Movement
Protesters from a growing coalition of Northern California citizen and ratepayer groups opposing PG&E’s ‘no-opt-out’ forced installation of wireless gas and electric meters block the exit to Wellington, Inc., the meter installer’s truck yard, and close down a PG&E service center demanding answers to their questions concerning EMF exposure levels.
Wireless Ain’t ‘Smart’
Local, state, national and even international opposition to the wireless meter rollout – the largest in history – is growing as citizens, rate-payers and public officials learn more about the serious human health, safety, privacy, accuracy and national security risks associated with the un-tested, invasive, hackable wireless technology.
Wires Are Wise
Though corporations are green-washing the profit-driven program as “necessary to a planet-saving, energy-conserving so-called ‘smart grid,’” both cyber-security experts and the growing numbers of people with electro-sensitivity agree that wireless meters are not essential, would in fact make the ‘smart’ grid dangerous and vulnerable, and that it’s wiser to ‘put it in the wires.’
Taking the lead is a country like Italy, or a city like Chattanooga, Tennessee, which are pursuing the wise grid approach to the ‘smart grid’ concept using fiber optic cables, phone lines or power lines.
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This was GREAT – next go to their corporate HEADQUARTERS and call ALL the
press. (first email a press release and the call each media the day before)
Thank you for speaking out against smart meter.
Last Spring, I did call PGE and ask PGE to remove Smart meter but PGE said FCC approve Smart Meter. HUH? Keep up fight against Smart meter.
I really don’t understand why that PGE is stilling there and control us after PROP. 16 is dead. What is wrong with picture?
For PG&E & the CPUC to force “smart meters” on us is akin to attempted murder. Please bring this issue to the attention of Attorney General-elect Kamala Harris. At the very least, CPUC members should be forced to resign & be replaced with citizen advocates. Replace PG&E with neighborhood solar electrical stations, as theorized 35 years ago by Dr. Barry Commoner.
We have to stop the installation of any more Smart Meters to protect ourselves, children, animals and the
environmental from this horrific 24 hours of radiating microwaves.
Please share and read all the studies done on Wireless Radiation.
Thank you
Tammie Donnelly
What name of factory that made Smart meter? GE? I think WE need to stop FACTORY from making more smart meter before sending Smarts Meters to PGE!
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GET USED TO IT.
PG&E has already killed people in Hinkley, California and San Bruno California and other places that are less well known.
Why are you people complaining about smart meters? Do you think that you deserve better than those who have already been killed by PG&E?
Do you people think that your children deserve to live when the lives of other children have already been destroyed by PG&E?
I just don’t understand you people. PG&E has a record of killing and sickening people throughout the state and that’s not going to change. Why don’t you people just accept it, like the rest of us?