The Movement Spreads
Although industry-friendly spin-meisters would like the public to believe resistance to wireless ‘smart’ meters is confined to ‘a few crazies in Northern California’s Marin County,’ media coverage – some fact-based, some denial-based – has gone national and seems to have corporate greed-heads worried. Both serious health and security risks are coming to the fore. Here’s a harvest of some recent pieces.
Photo by Tim Porter – Marin Magazine
Smart Meters, Dumb Idea?
Why Marin activists oppose PG&E’s plan
By Nate Seltenrich – Marin Magazine
Calif. Agency Mulls ‘Opt Out’ or Wired Substitutes as Fallout Over Smart Meters Persists
By Colin Sullivan and Debra Kahn – New York Times
Mendocino considers stalling SmartMeters
By Glenda Anederson – THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Will “Smart” Household Electricity Meters Give You Cancer?
By Kiera Butler – Mother Jones Magazine [ The historical Mother Jones must be rolling in her grave at this snide and shoddy piece. ]
Outsmarting Smartmeters
By Anna McCarthy – Marinscope Newspapers
Marin sheriff defies supervisors, won’t enforce SmartMeter ban
By Nels Johnson – Marin Independent Journal
Are We heading for a Smart Grid ‘Inconvenient Truths’ Experience?
by Gary L Hunt in Electric Power
SmartMeter security is a growing concern!
by Russ Steele – NC Media Watch
Report finds smart-grid security lacking
by Elinor Mills – CNET News
Money trumps security in smart-meter rollouts, experts say
by Elinor Mills – CNET News
Why Pulsed Microwave Frequencies [like those in wireless meters] are More Harmful
From Magda Havas
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