Danger! Danger! Radiation!
We’ve got a problem
Across the nation.
Shout it to your neighbors.
Shout it to your friends.
Tell your politicians,
‘Smart’ meters have to end!

Chant by Sandi Maurer
EMFSafetyNetwork.org

Wising Up to Wireless Risks [ scroll down to view video ]
In an energetic public meeting, Marin County, California law-makers and citizens present the multi-faceted case against Northern California utility monopoly PG&E’s forced installation of un-tested wireless so-called ‘smart’ meters.

Incoming Board Chair Susan Adams recommends revisiting the idea of a moratorium ordinance, recounting a briefing by emergency ham radio operators on the electrical interference that wireless meters create for their system.

Supervisors Charles McGlashan and Steve Kinsey agree to revisit the issue in a public hearing, with Kinsey inviting his West Marin constituents to inform his office if unwanted wireless meter installations occur before that hearing is scheduled.

Acting Chair Judy Arnold directs her staff to look into getting PG&E to remove unwanted wireless meters.

Hotspots of Wireless Opposition
Bellwether counties Marin, Sonoma and Santa Cruz, have emerged as the epicenter of California’s growing wildfire of opposition against PG&E’s heavy-handed assault on democratic choice, public health, privacy, property rights and national security.

The wireless roll-out is part of an ill-conceived, profit-driven plan to implement a Wireless World in which freedom of choice, privacy, public health protection and un-hackable national energy security are all things of the past.

Across the country, utilities’ eyes are focused on the Northern California spark of informed public resistance that could ignite a national and even international insurgency. This scheme, masquerading as a ‘save-the-planet’ ‘smart grid’ project will exponentially increase the level of electro-magnetic radiation exposure for an already seriously over-exposed population fighting for its rights.

Opposition Movement Grows
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Angry protesters, outraged by County Boards of Supervisors inaction and by PG&E’s refusal to respond to their privacy, security, accuracy, health and civil rights concerns about wireless ‘smart’ meters and declare a moratorium on installation, close down PG&E service centers simultaneously in San Rafael and and Capitola, CA.
The coordinated actions show the growing public movement in opposition to the Northern California power monopoly’s attempt to force wireless meters on non-consenting rate payers, property owners and people being made sick by exposure to the radiation emitted by the untested devices.
Title Cartoon: Brian Narelle NarelleCreative.net

Real Time Pete
If what PG&E CEO Peter Darbee has said publicly about his company’s ability to spy is true, nobody should be surprised if there are PG&E moles in the ‘smart’ meter ‘insurgent’ google groups.

In his 8-17-10 ‘Thought Leader’ speech at the CPUC, Darbee had this to say talking about protecting the grid from terrorist hackers:
“But we can actually look in and determine at any point real time the threat level – at the level of activity of this nature – and we can zoom right in on homes and utility poles real time and see what’s going on. It’s pretty amazing.”

Doesn’t that make you feel better?
Here are the Darbee clips from his 8-17-10 ‘Thought Leader’ speech at the CPUC.

Peter Darbee at the CPUC – Pt.1

Peter Darbee at the CPUC – Pt. 2

The above quote is at 49:03;13 in Part 2

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SmartMeter opponents stage San Rafael protest amid revelations PG&E monitored Marin critics on Internet
By Richard Halstead
Marin Independent Journal
Posted: 12/14/2010 06:11:01 PM PST
Opponents of Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s SmartMeters staged a protest Tuesday that prompted the utility to temporarily shut down its downtown San Rafael office.

About 20 protesters gathered in front of PG&E’s office at 750 Lindaro St. about 11:40 a.m. after attending a Marin County Board of Supervisors’ meeting, where they implored supervisors to adopt a countywide moratorium on SmartMeter installation.

PG&E spokesman Jeff Smith said managers closed the office “because the protest had moved into the lobby of the office, and it was difficult for us to conduct business.” The office was closed for about two hours.

The protest came as internal PG&E documents turned over to state regulators Monday revealed that a PG&E executive who used a fake name to monitor SmartMeter opponents did not act alone, as PG&E representatives had maintained. The hundreds of pages of e-mails released by PG&E showed that William Devereaux, the former senior director of PG&E’s SmartMeter program, widely shared the information he gathered with other PG&E employees.
…PG&E spokesman David Eisenhauer said the opponents’ names were released “because those names were on publicly accessible websites.”

Maurer, however, said, “These are not public groups. You have to sign up for these groups. PG&E had no right to do that.”

Mary Beth Brangan of Bolinas is one of the names that appears in the e-mails released by PG&E. Brangan participated in two demonstrations aimed at blocking trucks that deliver SmartMeters from leaving their home base in Rohnert Park. Brangan said the documents released by PG&E show that company employees referred to her and others participating in the protests as “insurgents.”

“I find it amazing that they are calling us insurgent,” said Brangan, 63. “We’re customers, ratepayers, citizens, grandmothers, mothers concerned about health, and they’re calling us insurgents.”

KION coverage of Santa Cruz County protest

Cartoon by Brian Narelle