Smart Meter Pushback Gets National Attention
[left: photo credit -Annie Tritt for The New York Times –
Katharina Sandizell, at home with her sons Jacob, left, and Luca, helped block meter trucks in Marin County. ]
Proving the aphorism that ‘resistance is fertile,’ West Marin organizing against PG&E’s dictatorial plan to install wireless so-called ‘smart’ meters is drawing the nervous attention of both the national media and the international power-telecom industry.
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New Electricity Meters Stir Fears
By FELICITY BARRINGER
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…. [read more]