BC Hydro is safeguarding personal information, privacy watchdog finds December 19, 2011 BC Hydro failed to notify customers who received new smart meters about how their personal information was being collected and used, B.C.’s privacy watchdog said Monday. Elizabeth Denham, B.C.’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, released a report assessing the privacy and security of BC […]
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B.C. Hydro not complying with customer notifications for smart meters: privacy commissioner by Andrew Duffy – Times Colonist – December 19, 2011: – http://www.timescolonist.com/ by Andrew Duffy December 19, 2011 (photo) B.C. Hydro hopes to have smart meters installed at all homes and businesses in the province by the end of next year. Victoria, B.C. – […]
PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate RELEASE “There are thousands of analog meters being stored by B.C. Hydro that they plan to dispose of before mid-December of this year. “Vicki Lightfoot of the Merritt chapter of the coalition to stop smart meters is calling on Premier Clark, and B.C. Hydro to not destroy these meters so that […]
Smart Meter Explosion & Fire by GIST Anti-smart meter activist Serge Vaillancourt of Nanaimo phoned Chris Anderson, Gulf Islanders for Safe Technology spokesperson, at 2PM today. Serge reports that he was interviewed at his home today by CHEK TV. The News Crew was following up a call about a smart meter explosion and fire at […]
http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/134846053.html by Jessica Peters December 01, 2011 Kathy Read sleeps with a CPAP mask, designed to help her breathing correctly through the night. She has two metal knees, and walks with a cane. But most importantly, she’s a cancer survivor. Read has been in remission for five years, after treatment for non-hodgkin’s lymphoma that was […]
A couple from Cache Creek, B.C., has successfully had their smart meter replaced with an analog meter after complaining to BC Hydro the meter was making them ill, but the utility company has said it won’t be making other exceptions.
Referendum Initiative Announced. Walt McGinnis and Steve Satow of “stopsmartmeters.ca” formally and publicly launch the referendum initiative against the BC Liberal’s and BC Hydro’s Smart Meters campaign at this press conference.
NOVEMBER 5, 2011 A resident who says she was not informed of an alternative to a wireless water meter wants to ensure other homeowners are aware. Petrina Gregson, who is opposed to the use of wireless meters due to her uncertainty over health risks, now has one installed at her home. Gregson was initially told […]
by Joyce Nelson The plans have been spun over the decades, but now large corporate players, controlling strategic committees in Washington and Ottawa, are ready to transform the continent and drain Canada of energy – oil, gas, hydro – all without any public involvement except that taxpayers are expected to foot the bill The people […]
October 24, 2011 Desert Garden Community Center Published October 25, 2011 People should have a right to choose whether to accept a health risk, a principal somehow forgotten in the rush to install wireless meters, an audience was told at a public meeting Monday night.”Smart meters are part of a wider process occurring at every […]