CBC News Posted: Jun 16, 2011 12:47 PM MT Last Updated: Jun 16, 2011 12:35 PM MT Edmonton parents, including Greg Garbutt, tried earlier this year to convince trustees to back off on Wi-Fi technology in schools in that city. ((CBC)) The benefits of wireless internet outweigh any potential health risks to students, say some […]
Archive for June, 2011
FORTIS BC – Oliver_June15_2011.pdf Just Say NO to Smart Meters by Agnes Sutherland Keep your home free of “smart meter” hazards by Judy Nicholas
Merrit Newspaper Editor John O’Connor interviews BC Hydro chief project officer Gary Murphy, June 9, 2011. Includes comments on the fluctuating marijuana grow operation numbers BC Hydro has used in justifying implementation of smart meters, health concerns over the meters, possibility of using ITRON’s wired system, and implementation schedule. Pictured in the photo is Juan de […]
JUNE 14, 2011 The more I learn about the Smart Meter Program, the more concerned I become, I regard the plan and the Smart Grid a willful attack on our health by the provincial government and BC Hydro. A number of reasons to be concerned about Smart Meters exist. There is also an inconsistency in […]
Bill Soprovich, West Vancouver councillor, has said that there is an open house being put on by Rogers regarding five towers in residential areas of West Vancouver next week. Bill is the leading councillor in Metro Vancouver in bringing attention to the EMF issue, having helped to write West Van’s tower siting bylaw back in […]
The hydro companies and the Smart Meters projects are not considering people that are renting and have health issues, are they going to change the meters every time someone with sensitivity moves to a different location? And what about renters with a pace maker and other issues? And what about our freedom of choice of just not wanting a […]
THE TIMES JUNE 9, 2011 Editor, the Times: BC Hydro has been hitting the hustings lately with the message that its wireless smart meter program will save us money – it won’t. And that we need it – we don’t. Where the utility company introduced it in California, the residential rates went up by as […]
What does this mean for Canadians? June 5, 2011. The World Health Organization classifies radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic. What does this mean for Canadians? After a week-long meeting in Lyon, France, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)—an arm of the World Health Organization (WHO)—classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (otherwise known as radiofrequency radiation […]
Victoria Community TV Presents: Face to Face with BC Hydro SmartMeters Starting as soon as this summer the BC government is going to put a powerful wireless transmitter ON YOUR HOUSE. At a cost of One Billion Dollars. For no good reason. We talk to Walt McGinnis about the dangers of all wireless technology — including the ability of Hydro and other hackers […]
by Larry Dashchuk, Port Alberni Times Alberni Valley June 03, 2011: www2.canada.com/albernivalleytimes/news/opinion/story.html?id=8df01d8c-7dd7-40d6-b353-080ddc0fda85&p=1 Recently our B.C. government has given B.C. Hydro the green light to install smart meters on every home in B.C. this summer. What is a smart meter? It is B.C. Hydro’s new power metering device which they plan to replace our existing analog […]
