by Ian Bailey – The Globe and Mail Vancouver – January 30, 2013: www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/mandatory-smart-meters-not-anymore/article8029942/ B.C. Hydro says it won’t install smart meters if households don’t want them, even after the B.C. Liberal government insisted for years that the program was mandatory. In a statement Wednesday, B.C. Hydro’s smart-meter spokesman, Greg Alexis, said the utility […]
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Professional musician claims wireless smart meter health effects forced her to flee San Diego home. By Ken Stone (Patch Staff) – December 30, 2012 6:55 am ET Updated at 10:45 p.m. Dec. 29, 2012 RAMONA, CA—Deborah Cooney was valedictorian at West Boylston High School in Massachusetts, an economics graduate of Brown University and a vice president of Peoples Savings […]
BC Hydro, one of Canada’s leading electrical utility organizations, has chosen Sepura radios for North America’s first operational Tetra network. The company has a wide-ranging initiative to improve both safety and communications in the Vancouver Lower Mainland region of British Columbia province and decided to adopt Tetra technology. Its systems integrator, S.M. Group International – […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS – DECEMBER 27, 2012 VICTORIA — BC Hydro has been given another year to finish installing smart meters in homes and businesses across the province. Hydro has installed 93 per cent, or 1.73 million of the devices, but needs more time to complete the work, so the provincial government has extended the […]
CBC News – December 10, 2012 Hamilton is spending $30,000 to get rid of its downtown public wireless internet access service. With Wi-Fi already provided at many restaurants, coffee shops and hotels, the city’s downtown Wi-Fi service is outdated, unreliable and redundant, councillors heard Monday morning when they voted to discontinue the service. “We don’t […]
October 29, 2012 By Staff – Metroland News Service Metroland News Service Howard Kalnitsky stands near a Beechwood Drive apartment building bristling with antennae, Monday. Kalnitsky claims his hypersensitivity to cell phone radiation has caused him heart problems. WATERLOO — When Howard Kalnitsky started experiencing heart problems 15 years ago at age 34, he wasn’t sure […]
http://saltspringexchange.com/2012/10/21/are-smart-meters-coming-to-salt-spring/ SALT SPRING AND OTHER ISLANDS ARE TARGETED BY “SMART” METER INSTALLERS MONDAY, OCT. 22 Actions to Take re Smart Meter Installers on Salt Spring Island Official BC Hydro letters, plus an Island Tides ad, confirm that a swarm of BC Hydro/Corix installers will likely be here on Monday, October 22 for a 3 week […]
10/11/2012 By: John Matarese Duke’s rollout of smart electric meters across the Cincinnati area has run into a potential snag: one local woman who doesn’t want one, and is now in the dark as a result. You might not think that would be an issue. But it is, because Duke is now beginning to […]
MONTREAL, Sept. 24, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Children may particularly be at risk of developing electromagnetic hypersensitivity or diseases such as cancer from overexposure to radiofrequency(RF)/microwaves emitted by smart meters and other wireless devices, say 54 experts who have authored hundreds of peer-reviewed studies on the health effects of electromagnetic fields. “Adverse neurological effects have been reported […]
