Multiple Smart Meters on the living room wall of a Stratford Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhJeFFAvbbw
Microwave radiation from these six smart meters penetrates through the brick wall of this townhouse and causes very strong exposure levels inside the house.
A young child spends most of her time in this living room, near to where the meters are located. Her health is being endangered by exposure to this radiation. It is unfair for Festival Hydro to put these people in such danger. Criminal and civil litigation could result from careless siting and use of this very dangerous technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC588Opd5jU
http://weepnews.blogspot.com/2010/09/stratford-death-by-smart-meter-cbc.html
Stratford Smart Meter Killing Shrub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsuP_WBBr2c
Three shrubs have been growing against the brick wall of this home for several years. They had such healthy and thich growth that a robin built her nest above the old electrical meter that had been here for years.
About three months ago, the old but perfectly servicable electric meter was removed and replaced with a ‘smart meter’ which sends information to the electrical utility company by microwave radiation signals.
This meter sends signals almost continuously, as can be seen and heard by the radio frequency meter readings. The damage caused by the radiation can be seen very clearly in this video. The harm to the shrub is much worse close to the meter and the damage decreases with the distance. At about three metres away, the shrub is quite healthy with bright green leaves. The leaves closest to the meter appear to be dried and diseased.
According to Health Canada, microwave radiation at this level, which is below their safety standards, does not cause biological harm.
The resident of this home has suffered sleep problems since the meter was installed.
Stratford smart meter 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRejDxBE6OE
A ‘smart meter’ was recently placed on this house. It replaced a safe electricity meter that was perfectly servicable and did not need to be changed. The meter is located on the outside wall of a bedroom. The microwave radiation from the meter, penetrates through the brick wall and engulfs the bedroom in very strong, very dangerous microwave radiation. Other areas of the house are also affected, to a lessor extent and the resident reports ill health effects since the meter was installed.
The radio frequency meter shows how strong the radiation is and the sound illustrates how ofter the meter is transmitting.
These Smart meters have been badly named, there is nothing smart about an electricity meter that harms people, animals and the environment.
Festival Hydro, who installed these meters throughout Stratford, now face huge liability issues from citizens who are made ill from the radiation.
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Sick from Smart Meters
http://www.kcra.com/station/25639450/detail.html
Some SmartMeter Customers Say Devices Make Them Sick
Thousands Of Complaints Roll Into Utilities Commission
POSTED: 5:13 pm PDT November 4, 2010
UPDATED: 4:01 pm PDT November 5, 2010
SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — Some California coastal communities have placed moratoriums on Pacific Gas and Electric’s SmartMeters after customers raised concerns about potentially harmful health effects.
Homeowners addressed the California Public Utilities Commission in September, asking the commissioners to place an emergency moratorium on PG&E’s wireless gas and electric Smart Meters.
The CPUC told KCRA 3 that it has received more than 2,000 health-related complaints but said the health issues are not its jurisdiction and referred customers to the Federal Communications Commission and state health officials.
A Sebastopol-based group, the EMF Safety Network, studies the health impacts of electromagnetic fields and radio frequency radiation.
The group said it is collecting data that proves PG&E Smart Meters are hazardous to human health.
A number of the people who said they are getting sick said they suffer from a condition called electrical sensitivity or electromagnetic hypersensitivity, or EHS.
The World Health Organization said EHS is not a medical diagnosis.
However, people who claim to suffer from electrical sensitivity said their symptoms are very real.
“The trouble is, a lot of times, people don’t connect the dots between their health symptoms and electrical exposure,” Sandy Mauer with the EMF Safety Network said. The WHO said there is no convincing scientific evidence that weak RF signals from wireless networks cause health problems.
SmartMeters emit about one watt, less than cell phones, which some research finds riskier because they are held to the head.
PG&E said its meters comply with federal safety standards.
“Radio frequency is all around us,” Paul Moreno from PG&E said.
“SmartMeters are a very small measure of that. They are well within what you find with ordinary household appliances and far within FCC guidelines.”
Moreno said before PG&E rolled out its SmartMeters, it commissioned independent experts to examine how SmartMeters’ RF levels stack up against other common household devices.
“The studies by the World Health Organization and other health experts have found no health effects from low-level RF such as you will find with a Smart Meter device,” Moreno said
San Rafael Assemblyman Jared Huffman has received complaints from a number of his constituents.
He has asked the California Council on Science and Technology to examine SmartMeters and whether current FCC standards are sufficient to protect public health.
“I think that’s going to be hugely helpful to take this debate to one based on sort of fear and a dismissive response to that fear, and try to inject some independent credible science,” Huffman said.
The council could release its report by the end of 2010.
“I think we have the right to a healthy life,” PG&E customer Tim Hudson said. “And we have the right to choose. And I think in both these cases, that’s being taken away from us.”
Assemblyman Huffman addressed that concern saying no matter what conclusions the Council on Science and Technology returns, he is considering looking at some kind of opt-out option for customers who do not want smart meter technology on their homes.
PG&E said it takes customer concerns very seriously. It has met with a number of communities who have raised health-related concerns, in an effort to raise awareness and educate customers.
PG&E continues to deploy some 10 million meters in its territory statewide, complying with the CPUC’s SmartMeters proposal to install the wireless meters on all customers’ residences.
In the meantime, there is no resolution for customers who said SmartMeters are ticking time bombs.
“My choice now, is I may have to leave my home,” Louise Stanphill said. “I may have to move from my house, but where do I go?”
#1 by Jeanine Susan Deal on October 27, 2015 - 11:06 am
Thank you, very good article.