Vermont’s state health commissioner testified before the
state’s Senate Finance Committee that the radiation emitted
by wireless smart meters does not pose a health hazard.
While noting that a 2011 international health panel
concluded that radio frequency radiation emitted by cell
phones was a possible source of brain cancer in heavy cell
phone users, Dr. Harry Chen, reported that smart meters emit
less than one percent of the radiation emitted by cell
phones and they are rarely held right next to anyone’s head.
Chen says, “From actual measurements the Department of
Health has made at active smart meter antenna, the devices
are not likely to emit levels of radiofrequency radiation
more than a small fraction of a single percentage of the
levels from a wireless telephone, even at very close
proximity to the meters. People are not likely to be exposed
to measureable amounts of radio frequency radiation from
smart meters.”
The hearing is related to proposed bill that would require
prior written consent from consumers for the installation of
smart meters. Vermont’s two largest power companies—Green
Mountain Power and Central Vermont Public Service—plan to
install smart meters this year.
California physician Dr. Karl Maret testified that he
believes the committee should require Vermont’s utilities to
install more expensive hard-wired smart meters. “Our health
long-term would be more assured. There would be no radiation
whatsoever, and I think that’s the core issue here.”
Steve Costello, a spokesman for Central Vermont Public
Service, says the utility would not deploy the meters if
they believed the devices endangered the public. “All of the
credentialed, peer-reviewed studies that have been produced
have come to the same conclusion. The amount of radio
frequencies that someone would be confronted with is tiny
compared to the…other sources that people encounter freely
and willingly every day.”
Dorothy Schnure, spokeswoman for Green Mountain Power, adds:
“One day of casual exposure to a cell phone is about the
same as 30 years next to a smart meter. If a single meter is
a fraction of a percent of what you get, for example, from a
cell phone, then having multiple meters would still be a
fraction of a percent of what you would get by being near
someone with a cell phone.”
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