Late revelations of an exceptionally grave new threat to the health of Quebecers — thanks to the gross negligence of Hydro-Québec’s leaders.
source : Coalition against Smart Meters Quebec Canada www.cqlpe.ca facebook.com/groups/cqlpe
HYDRO-QUÉBEC REINVESTS NEARLY 1.4 BILLION IN “SMART” METERS
JULY 3, 2025
By GABRIEL CÔTÉ – Journal de Québec
Hydro-Québec has concluded an agreement of nearly 1.4 billion dollars to replace all of its 4.4 million meters, thus continuing its costly adventure.
A negotiated contract worth ,379,000,000 was awarded to the Swiss supplier Landis+Gyr at the end of May.
The agreement provides for the “supply of smart meters, telecommunications equipment, and […] the technological solution necessary for their operation” from 2027 until 2041.
“This contract with a recognized supplier guaranties our supply of meters for the next 16 years, under negotiated conditions deemed advantageous for Hydro-Québec,” explained a spokesperson for the state-owned company by email, adding that the actual value of the contract will depend on the number of meters installed in the long term.
Let’s remember that the replacement of the old roller counters has already cost Hydro-Québec more than billion since the start of these operations in 2011.
Earlier this year, the company also announced that it had signed an agreement with the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Electricity Cooperative to deploy its new “Revelo” meter model, but the amount of this contract was not made public.
COSTLY CHANGE
When Hydro-Québec embarked on the adventure of smart meters 14 years ago, it was once again the Swiss manufacturer that had obtained the contract for at least $350 million, to the detriment of the Quebec company Varitron.
At the time, Hydro-Québec assured that this decision would lead to long-term savings.
But a few years later, the state-owned company was forced to replace hundreds of thousands of defective devices made in Mexico, even tho they were supposed to last 18 years.
These changes have incurred costs of at least 5 million for Hydro-Québec, as reported by Le Journal in August 2022. At the time, neither Hydro nor the manufacturer had agreed to detail the costs involved in changing a meter after the manufacturer’s warranty.
This time, Hydro assures that the contract contains clauses specifying that the costs will be borne by the supplier in the event of a recall of a defective device.
MIRAGE
This is without taking into account that the Swiss company had committed, in 2011, to creating a “center of excellence” with 75 employes in Quebec, jobs that do not seem to have materialized.
According to the business registry, Landis+Gyr still has a subsidiary in Longueuil, on the Savane road, where between one and five employes work.
The company, which has 6,300 employes spread across several countries, recorded sales of 1.7 billion US dollars in 2024.
– Taken from https://www.journaldequebec.com/2025/07/03/hydro-quebec-remet-pres-de-14-g-dans-les-compteurs-intelligents
In an email this evening, André Fauteux, editor of the magazine La maison du 21e siècle, wrote the following: “The engineer who runs the only electrical cooperative in Quebec has just explained that the range of the Zigbee chip-antenna is too short, emitting at about 12 meters. It will be replaced by second generation meters equipped with a Wi-Fi gateway communicating at a distance of 300 to 400 meters within the mesh system. Has anyone measured them and what will their impact be on people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity?
Good question! This measuring device will emit powerful additional carcinogenic radiation in more than 4 million Quebec households and will further torture electrosensitive people who have practically no place left to escape this electromagnetic chainsaw massacre.
He included a link to a press release from the manufacturer Landis+Gyr, dated January 2023…
LANDIS+GYR TO DEPLOY REVELO GRID SENSORS FOR NATIONAL GRID IN MASSACHUSETTS
… about these new meters called Revelo – which was precisely the subject of the Journal de Montréal article, which highlights the exorbitant costs of these meters that were supposed to save Hydro-Québec money by replacing its 800 employes who manually read the old meters.
Here are all the technical specifications of this meter designed to interact with the Internet of Things (IoT)…
Meet Revelo The IoT Grid Sensing Meter
https://www.landisgyr.ca/webfoo/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Meet-Revelo-IoT-Grid-Sensing-Meter-v6.pdf
… where it is clearly indicated
“Wi-Fi and internet enabled”…
Know that, when you see from 2027 that our secretive state-owned company has secretly replaced your previous carcinogenic communicating meter — emitting an average of 2400 times a day powerful but brief bursts of microwaves — with this new torture instrument equipped with Wi-Fi that emits up to nearly half a kilometer around to better reveal what all your electrical appliances also equipped with a Wi-Fi module are doing, that your health and that of all your neighbors and pets will deteriorate even more rapidly. And of course, you can thank the Régie de l’énergie du Québec, unfailing accomplice of Hydro-Québec’s crimes, for this new poisoned gift.
If you have had your electromechanical meter replaced by a non-communicating meter, emitting strictly nothing and protecting your health, for which 2% of Hydro-Québec customers have already opted (this is the withdrawal option that we managed to obtain in 2013 with an epic struggle in which thousands of Quebecers participated), you have made the right choice.
For the others, what are you waiting for to make the only intelligent choice that is necessary?
As indicated at https://www.cqlpe.ca/Lutte.htm (where all the details are provided),
you simply need to call Hydro’s customer service at 1-855-462-1029 to request it.
Jean Hudon from facebook.com/groups/cqlpe
@en vedette Here is the new electromagnetic torture instrument that Hydro-Québec will begin to deploy forcefully in Quebec in about a year. It’s equipped with powerful Wi-Fi that emits up to 100 meters round. As if there isn’t enough already and, in fact, WAY TOO MUCH cancerous radiation all around us…
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