Smart Meters are costing us money, privacy, and our health and safety. Smart Meters interfere with electrical devices, have burned out appliances, exploded and caught fire. People report sleep problems, head aches, ringing in the ears, heart problems, nausea, and other symptoms following installation. Smart Meters constantly transmit pulsed microwave radiation (RF), an environmental toxin and suspected carcinogen.More information:http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?page_id=872SKYROCKETING BILLS: Complaints about inordinate billing increases are reported from all over the US and Canada. One example:“My 11/9/09 bill: $168.03,my 12/9/09 bill: $366.20,my 1/11/10 bill: $1010.09,my 2/10/10 bill: $1053.23. My smart meter was installed sometime in Dec. 09. PG&E says its my fault. I am seeing others have had the same problem… I am wanting to sue. Price gouging. This is WRONG.” …..More billing and other commentshere: http://www.ucan.org/forum/forums/energy/sdg_e_disputes/billing_disputePRIVACY: "The ebb and flow of gas and electricity into your home contains surprisingly detailed information about your daily life. Energy usage data, measured moment by moment, allows the reconstruction of a household's activities: when people wake up, when they come home, when they go on vacation, and maybe even when they take a hot bath."http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/new-smart-meters-energy-use-put-privacy-riskSECURITY: “Computer-security researchers say new "smart" meters that are designed to help deliver electricity more efficiently also have flaws that could let hackers tamper with the power grid in previously impossible ways." “Smart Meters have Security Holes” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36055667/ns/technology_and_science-security/INTERFERENCE, BURNED OUT APPLIANCES AND FIRES: “They have shorted out appliances, they’ve caught fire, they interfere with garage door openers or security systems.” said Mark Toney of the Utility Reform Network.“We were getting up, getting ready for school and for work,” said Kari Pyrtle, a Danville resident. “All of the sudden the lights started flickering on and off and we hit the breaker box. Go outside and we could smell electrical burning. And we looked and our whole smart meter was turning black.”http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?page_id=1280Other complaints include loss of wireless internet: see more here: http://www.ucan.org/forum/forums/energy/sdg_e_disputes/billing_disputeHEALTH: People are reporting sleep problems, headaches, high pitched ringing in the ears, heart problems, nausea, and other symptoms after smart meters are installed. We are ALL threatened by the increase of microwaves from the unprecedented explosion of smart meters in our communities. Some groups are more vulnerable: children, pregnant women, the elderly, people with pace makers and other implanted devices, cancer patients, epileptics, people with compromised immune systems, and those with chemical and electrical sensitivity. http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?page_id=2292SCIENCE: Microwave radiation is known scientifically to have biological effects.International scientists recognize the unprecedented explosion of wireless technologies and call for the precautionary principle. Their statement includes, “We are concerned about the body of evidence that indicates that exposure to electromagnetic fields interferes with basic human biology and may increase the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases.” http://www.icems.eu/docs/resolutions/Porto_Alegre_Resolution.pdfA new study by Sage Associates found, “The installation of wireless ‘smart meters’ in California can produce significantly high levels of radiofrequency radiation (RF) depending on many factors (location of meter(s) in relation to occupied or usable space, duty cycle or frequency of RF transmissions, reflection and re-radiation of RF, multiple meters at one location, collector meters, etc).” http://sagereports.com/California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) study leaves radiation health impacts unanswered/states “concern”Scientists and Doctors comment on CCST Study: http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?page_id=3676GREENWASHING: The ostensible rationale for the meters is "green washing." There is no reason to believe that many people will invest in the additional necessary equipment and consult their computers and then change behavior (using toasters at midnight instead of for breakfast, for example) to switch energy use to off peak times more than they would without the wireless meters. All-new transmitting appliances would be required for any vaunted home energy monitoring. Even if people switch energy use to off peak times, doing so would not reduce energy use. People who work at home or spend a lot of time at home during the day, or who could not shift their energy use to off-peak times, could suffer: retired, unemployed and people with disabilities could be hit hardest by the time-of-use pricing plan. (See the “AARP case against Smart Meters: They do not save energy.” http://transpacific.net/pipermail/smartmeters-berkeley/attachments/20100702/e890e0bf/attachment.pdfMore information:www.emfsafetynetwork.orgwww.eon3emfblog.netwww.refusesmartmeter.comwww.smartmeterdangers.orgwww.smartmetersafety.com/www.stopsmartmeters.wordpress.comhttp://www.teensturninggreen.org/get-...www.turn.orgMore: http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?page_id=649Options Remove ItemReport ItemBan UserSusan Brinchman 14 days agoA smart meter informational letter to share by email that you may also add your signature to, send to all your friends and email list.-------------------------Dear Friend,I am writing as the Founder and Director of the American Coalition Against Smart Meters and Smart Meter Dangers (www.smartmeterdangers.org), to inform you about a very dangerous technology being installed on all American homes and businesses by the local utilities. I ask that you write and lobby your local town, city, and county governments, governor, legislators, and state public utility commission to call a moratorium on any plans to install smart meters. If smart meters have been installed, insist that they be removed and replaced with analogue (non-digital, non-wireless meters). Consider organizing groups in your state to lobby for the above. It is vital to stop smart meters from destroying the public health and our environment.Take a moment to learn how the new utility meters are actually making many people very ill and causing grave risk to the rest. The problematic frequencies that the meters use, combined with environmental factors never taken into consideration, and the chronic exposures, with no health or safety testing ahead of time has led to a rapidly evolving public health disaster. Smart meters are being deployed in your county soon and within a short while, people will begin complaints of sleeplessness, headaches, dizziness, ear ringing, ear pain, and more. These meters are also a threat to those with metal implants, pacemakers, and insulin pumps, as the wireless frequency used can interfere with and cause more harm.I ask that you visit www.smartmeterdangers.org to learn what scientists and experts are really saying about the smart meters, and why the utility company propaganda isn't holding water. Smart meters do hurt people and animals, far more than cell phones. Smart meters don't reduce energy use and may actually increase it according to studies. Smart meters do cause fires and arcing of electricity. Smart meters do cause "dirty electricity". The studies presented by utility companies are insider reports, they are not independent studies. They are wrong. A review of the data shows that smart meters emit up to 160X more rf radiation than cell phones, for whole body exposures. Smart meters are on, day and night, with high levels of pulsed radiation being emitted all day long. Smart meters don't help, they hurt.I have experienced these meters first hand, I have two on my house (one at each end) and am tortured daily by these, with no help from the utility, even with a doctor note. I must avoid one end of the house and stay in the middle, sleeping on the couch. I cannot enter the master bedroom where the most problematic electric meter is. I have suffered shrill ringing in my ears that has led, in less than a year, to documented hearing loss in both ears. I have suffered pain every day from inflamed sinuses and headaches, sleeping problems and even skin cancer. I am not alone.Some other very disturbing facts:Smart meters do not help with global warming. Smart meters can use more energy, studies show. Smart meters often cost the customer more - utility bills often skyrocket after installation. Smart meters interfere with privacy, your every movement is tracked inside the home as these meters log exactly what you are doing. Smart meters are wireless and the system is easily hacked into. Smart meters are capable of making you very ill and even causing death - they can and do interfere with the signals of the heart, for instance. This means that they are like having a weapon on your home that can be turned on you by anyone in control, including terrorists. Smart meters can put our nation's security at risk, since they can be easily hacked, our nation's electricity will no longer be secure and could be remotely shut off. Once these meters are on your home or business, the utility will try very hard to keep them there, as they stand to make billions from raising rates during peak hours and charging you for them.We need your help to protect America from being experimented on with this new, deadly technology that is going to be placed on every building in our nation - unless we stop it from happening with our collective voices. I invite you to join our Coalition http://www.causes.com/causes/594297-a.... I invite you to learn about this new problem that will sicken millions of Americans, increase suffering, and create yet more of a public healthcare burden on our country. Smart meters are a poorly researched, deadly plan for America. Please learn more, and share this email and the information you learn with all your neighbors, family, and friends!JUST SAY NO TO SMART METERS! SEE WHAT CALIFORNIANS AND MAINE RESIDENTS ARE DOING TO SAY NO AND REPLICATE THESE IDEAS IN YOUR STATE.Sincerely,Susan Brinchman, Founder of American Coalition Against Smart Meters http://www.causes.com/causes/594297-a...Founder of Smart Meter Dangers, website: www.smartmeterdangers.org;Director of Center for School Mold Help (national 501c3 nonprofit) www.schoolmoldhelp.org;Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/No2SmartMeters; location: La Mesa, CA
yep, use smart bulbs to cut costs, to raise costs lost, to save them billions of your money in their gouging pockets. now thats some fairness in this life huh? even trying to be nice to these ppl makes us all look like 45uq0 ua4unwv q34____ and them some. Praying for you brother. Max Simon Uhrig AZ
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