Hundreds of Households Having SmartMeters Removed as Health
Toll Mounts
Capitola, CA- Last Wednesday, more than a dozen Santa Cruz
County residents- including mothers and grandmothers-
assembled outside Pacific Gas and Electric’s Capitola
Payment Center with their unwanted wireless electric meters
in hand, and spoke about what prompted them to defy their
utility and replace the ‘smart’ meter on their homes with
widely available analog meters. After being interviewed by
the media, they quietly got in line and waited for the next
clerk. But before they could speak to anyone, PG&E called
out half a dozen Capitola Police Officers, and kicked
everyone out of the office. The unwanted ‘Smart’ Meters were
left piled up on the counter. Late last week, PG&E sent
letters threatening to disconnect power to those who
returned their ‘smart’ meters on Wednesday, including a
family of four with headaches and a single woman in her
seventies.
http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/12/12/pge-threatens-to-disconnect-families-protecting-their-health/
The dozen residents who assembled last week outside a PG&E
office just 30 miles south of Silicon Valley are the most
visible part of a growing movement of people suffering from
insomnia, headaches, tinnitus and other symptoms linked to
smart meters- fed up with being ignored by the monopoly
utilities and state regulatory agencies (who have received
over 10,000 health complaints about the new meters). Many
have begun taking matters into their own hands and having
their smart meters removed from their homes. Their efforts
have been bolstered by online videos showing how to do the
switch, and ‘smart meter replacement kits’ are now being
sold online for $49.95. (See FreedomTaker.com)
Despite thousands of threats, not one household has had
their power disrupted for refusing or removing a ‘smart’
meter in California. According to many legal experts,
utilities do not have the legal right to force a carcinogen
on people’s homes. Nevertheless, the threats continue.
Last week’s events in Capitola
should send shivers down the spines of utility executives,
who are facing a growing backlash against their ‘smart’
meter programs. While investment banking and tech firms are
looking forward to potential profits of $49 billion from
rolling out the ‘smart grid’ worldwide- mainly through
utility rate hikes- increasingly customers are rejecting
‘smart’ meters as surveillance devices, fire hazards, and as
dangerous sources of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation-
what the World Health Organization now identifies as a Class
2B carcinogen.
“The ‘smart’ meter was installed
outside my children’s bedroom,” says Bianca Carn resident of
Santa Cruz and mother of an 8 and a 6 year old. “Since the
meter was installed, they are both complaining of headaches.
I asked PG&E multiple times to take it off- they refused. So
we hired an electrician and had it removed.”
PG&E’s ‘smart’ meters emit
radiation bursts that are more powerful than wireless
consumer devices and have been measured at levels that would
exceed safety limits for RF exposure in much of Europe.
“PG&E does not care about health and safety and does not
respect private property rights,” said Joshua Hart Director
of Santa Cruz County based Stop Smart Meters! “Threatening
to turn off the power to a family who are simply trying to
protect their children from radiation-induced headaches- two
weeks before Christmas- is about as Scrooge-like as you can
get.”
The County of Santa Cruz, all 4
municipalities in the county, and 42 other local governments
throughout the state have demanded a halt to deployment
because of health damage, privacy violations, and safety
concerns. At the time Santa Cruz County was “deployed” with
‘smart’ meters, a County Ordinance prohibiting their
installation was in force and PG&E chose to ignore it.
According to Hart, “it appears that PG&E’s chickens are
coming home to roost as hundreds are returning unwanted
utility equipment that was installed illegally in the first
place.”
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