Archive for category Kelowna

5G comes to BC Interior

5G comes to BC Interior Jon Manchester – Sep 1, 2020 / 7:12 am  Rogers Communications is expanding its 5G technology to 50 new markets starting today – including communities in the Thompson-Okanagan. The roll-out includes 26 cities in B.C., among them Kelowna, Kamloops, Vernon, Salmon Arm, Penticton and Osoyoos. Several Lower Mainland communities are also […]

Kelowna hosts 5G Pilot project

The City of Kelowna has agreed to be a pilot “5G smart city” — beginning with monitoring pedestrian and vehicle traffic. This is the type of “smart city” that Toronto rejected, based on concerns that privacy would be invaded. So why is Kelowna doing this?  People need to get organized and look at this by […]

Petition aims to derail proposed cellphone tower in Kelowna

by Global News    April 21, 2019 An online petition claims an 18-meter-high (60 ft) Rogers cell phone tower is slated to be built less than 400 meters from Ellison elementary school. Courtesy: Change.org  A proposed cellphone tower in a Kelowna neighbourhood is meeting resistance after residents discovered that its location will be less than […]

Smart meter foes go cold

Nicholas Johansen – Dec 16, 2016 / 5:00 am As the temperature continues to drop into negative double digits, several people in the Okanagan and Kootenays are without electricity in their homes, after refusing smart meters. While FortisBC wouldn’t provide an exact number, the utility company says “fewer than 10” electricity customers have had their power turned […]

Kelowna Event : Wireless Technology’s Deadly New Epidemics – November 14

SafeZone EMF Consulting announces that three of the world’s top researchers and lecturers are coming to Kelowna for a full day event called, Wireless Technology’s Deadly New Epidemics. This will be a knowledge packed, full day event from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. with an organic lunch provided at the incredible Summerhill Pyramid Winery on November 14, 2015.

Kelowna Tenant and Smart Meters

By Kelly Hayes August 25, 2015  6pm Video Journalist  Global News Time is running out for a Kelowna man who is in a standoff with FortisBC. The man refuses to have a smart meter installed in his rental home. He says he wants to keep his old analog meter but FortisBC says that’s not an […]

Without power by choice

by Wayne Moore | Story: 144983 – Jul 29, 2015 / 5:00 am A handful of FortisBC customers have chosen to be without power after refusing to select the type of smart meter they wish installed at their home. Utility spokesman David Wylie said a few customers in Trail and a few more in Kelowna had their power […]

$4,500 Fortis bill for house which isn’t there

By Adam Proskiw  – Infotel News   Gary Fong was sent a $4,500 bill from Fortis for power used by a building that burned down more than six months ago. (ADAM PROSKIW /InfoTel Multimedia) July 24, 2015 – 6:30 PM KELOWNA – A world-famous photographer who lives part time in Ellison says Fortis B.C. has […]

Danger in smart meters is ‘cumulative long-term exposure’

Letter posted Feb 20, 2015 at 12:00 PM To the editor: In his letter to the Capital News of Feb. 11 [Time to Put ‘Smart Meter Paranoia To Rest’] as a response to Keep Your Smart Meter Off My Townhome [letter to the editor Feb. 6], Robert Wilson clearly proved the old saying that ignorance is bliss. I measure the […]

New Cellphone Tower Proposed for West Kelowna

West Kelowna   posted February 24, 2015 by   Anita Sthankiya A new cellphone tower has been proposed on the summit on Blue Grouse Mountain in West Kelowna. Location of the proposed tower (Photo Credit: RDCO) In order to improve telecommunications in the area the tower and buildings would be constructed in a visually sensitive area. The proposal […]

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