Comments JULY 18, 2011
Dear Editor:
Why is the BC Government requiring all homes to be in conflict with section 5.57 of the Works Safe BC regulations?
At the end of May, the World Health Organization/International Association For Research on Cancer (IARC) declared emf, including low levels such as cell phones, as a Group 2B Carcinogen. This includes the radiation emitted by Smart Meters. Part 5.57 of the Work Safe BC regulation states “(1) If a substance identified as any of the following is present in the workplace, the employer must replace it, if practicable, with a material which reduces the risk to workers:
(a) ACGIH A1 or A2, or IARC 1, 2A or 2B carcinogen;…”
Effectively, this disqualifies any home-based business from being covered by Work Safe BC, even worse if a worker comes to one’s home to do repairs or other work, they will be in violation of the regulations.
Why has the provincial government mandated that one can not have workers come to one’s home to do repairs, house cleaning, gardening etc?
The Smart Meter program/Clean Energy Act may sound as a good idea until one looks at the issues caused by its hasty implementation. The Smart Meter program, as it is today, is wrong from the health perspective, the worker safety perspective, personal privacy, grid security, and cost benefit perspectives. A moratorium must be declared on the program until those issues can be proven safe.
Norm Ryder Victoria
#1 by Mia Nony on July 22, 2011 - 11:01 am
Human beings operate at a frequency of 7 hertz
Wireless devices operate at a frequency of 2 gigahertz to 5 gigahertz.
The science is in on this matter.
That science is VERY clear on the fact that this frequency discrepancy creates an adverse effect by creating a conflict between wireless devices & human beings.
Translation:
When human tissue is excited by a frequency which is double the speed of our own, our body tissues and organs begin to cook like so much meat thrown into a microwave oven.
Migraine headaches are the least of our problems when this happens.
To permit the deployment of harmful wireless or even wired frequency devices with a Switch Mode Power Supply incorporated is to permit the deployment of any device which creates a dangerous discrepancy in human frequency, with scientifically predictable results, harm to humans.
To do so is against Health Canada’s own existing laws.
Health Canada has been informed by Curtis Bennett of Thermographix Consulting, Kamloops, B.C. during a Standing Committee of the House of Commons that Health Canada is in serious error of omission of this law.
Translation: Health Canada is ignoring their own laws.
Bottom Line?
SMART METERS ARE ILLEGAL under the Federal Laws of Health Canada.
Apparently Health Canada may scramble to try nullify their own laws. CAN HEALTH CANADA SUCCEED IN COVERING UP THEIR OWN LIABILITY FOR HEALTH CANADA’S COMPLICITY IN FAILING TO PREVENT HARM AGAINST CANADIAN CITIZENS BY IGNORING THEIR OWN LAWS?
Sounds like a legal challenge must be imminent.
The hero of this story is one man: Curtis Bennett.
Meanwhile?
That conflict between human frequency and artificial frequencies which has been created by any and all wireless devices is one of extremely high risk. Wireless frequencies of any sort can cause ALL human tissue to be stimulated or excited, can create a heat effect, and can cause all nerve and muscle to depolarize.
Translation:
We are being illegally cooked, inside our own homes and otherwise.
Health Canada’s Safety Code 6 states clearly that the unintentional stimulation of tissue is to be avoided as it could lead to “nerve and muscle depolarization” known as a “heat effect”.
Health Canada has jurisdiction over all provincial legislation, such as the Energy Act.
Health Canada’s own Federal Law is in direct contradiction to the B.C. Energy Act.
There is exists an Act just like the Energy Act in every province and territory in Canada. (as well as in every state inn the USA).
Every single one of these “ACTS” is violation of Canadian Federal Laws created by Health Canada.
The B.C. Energy Act was created by the B.C. Liberals under Gordon Campbell.
The intent of the Energy Act is to protect B.C. Hydro from accountability or liability.
B.C. Hydro is supposed to remain beyond all scrutiny, accountability or legal liability for their part in the creation and perpetration of a “smart grid” including any and all installation of “smart” meters, signal relay antenna boosters on utility poles, etc.
Can B.C. Hydro be protected by any provincial legislation which violates Federal Canadian Law?
Hardly.
There are many very serious legal implications involved in this error of omission oversight by Health Canada.
Health Canada cannot arbitrarily decide to ignore its own laws on wireless devices and to thereby permit each province to follow suit.
In doing so, Health Canada is violation of its own Safety Code Six’s own safety standards.
Health Canada has used peer reviewed science to back up the same law they have apparently chosen to ignore. The political language for this is “Error of omission for Safety Code Six”.
Put this same phrase into Google and it all becomes totally clear, hit after hit.
Health Canada’s own law regarding the potential harm from wireless devices is supported by hard science which has established without doubt that humans exposed to wireless frequencies suffer from electromagnetic induction caused by EMFs which stimulate tissue.
How can a Federal Agency responsible for human health exempt itself from its own laws and turn around and allow the deployment of any smart meter or any other wireless device?
#2 by Evan on August 11, 2011 - 6:39 pm
Transmitter in smart meters, they are regulated by the federal government, ONLY. The province has no jurisdiction in the matter as it falls under the federal Radio Act which is the responsibility of Industry Canada. The Radio Act has no provision under which a transmitter of any type may be installed on private property without the consent of the owner. The Clean Air Act makes no mention of transmitters and neither do the Tariffs that regulate BC Hydro. They cannot mandate the installation of transmitters as the province has no authority in law to do so.
BC Hydro does not have legal authority to install a transmitter of any type on private property. It is purely a business policy decision that the consumer is not party to. Nor has the consumer consented to this policy via any terms and conditions of the supply of electricity. Those terms and conditions are part of the Tariffs that regulate BC Hydro and are not up to BC Hydro to decide.
The bottom line is that each person has the right to refuse the installation of a transmitter on their property. This does not mean you may refuse the installation of a smart meter. That IS mandated by law. But you may refuse the transmitter as that is an optional accessory that is regulated separately by the federal government. The smart meter has provision to be read by a meter reader in the same way the old meters are read. Even when read that way it still preserves the ability to enable time of use billing and all the other “advantages” that BC Hydro claims.
Note that I AM NOT A LAWYER but the law in this case is very clear and there are many case law precedents that disallow provincial control of radio apparatus, period.
Another factor that I am currently making public is that the model of smart meter that Hydro is installing contains a significant amount of elemental mercury. This is in the form of an anti tamper tilt switch included inside the meter. Such switches have been banned from use in automobiles since 2003 and some time next year Environment Canada will ban the importation of devices that contain more than a few milligrams of pure MERCURY.
The smart meters contain around 800 milligrams of mercury which is more than enough to cause a reportable toxic waste spill if the meter should be involved in a fire. If a bank of meters on an apartment were to burn a large spill situation would be created and may prove to be very difficult to clean up. The possibility of such hazardous material escaping is not theoretical. Smart meters have been known to catch on fire without outside “help”. They are far more complicated than the old steel and glass meters and with complication inevitably comes more failures.
For more on the mercury content of smart meters see this document from Itron, the supplier of the smart meters to BC Hydro.
https://www.itron.com/na/resourcesAndSupport/Documents/Radio-Based_Endpoint_Disposal_Manual.pdf
Evan
#3 by Mark Warwarick on September 8, 2011 - 8:58 am
Does anyone know a lawyer in this field who might be to verify if what Evan says is true or not? This could be very important in stopping the installations of these meters.Thanks very much.
“Transmitter in smart meters, they are regulated by the federal government, ONLY. The province has no jurisdiction in the matter as it falls under the federal Radio Act which is the responsibility of Industry Canada. The Radio Act has no provision under which a transmitter of any type may be installed on private property without the consent of the owner. The Clean Air Act makes no mention of transmitters and neither do the Tariffs that regulate BC Hydro. They cannot mandate the installation of transmitters as the province has no authority in law to do so. “
#4 by Dennis Noble on September 10, 2011 - 11:44 am
I’ve been struggling with the issue of jurisdiction for some time now and this is what I have been able to glean:
1. Industry Canada is involved in establishing the frequencies of these low power devices and in the manufacture of them (in that they meet basic safety regulations).
2. These low power telecommunications devices are under the umbrella of Industry Canada but that agency has decided that they are to be unlicensed and unregulated.
3. So Industry Canada is uninvolved as to where these devices are placed (this from Jim Laursen of Industry Canada).
4. However, cell phone transmitter base stations are also low power telecommunications devices but are in federal jurisdiction as to where they are placed (in that the landowner’s permission is required). The difference must be that cell tower transmission base stations are a federal initiative (interprovincial) whereas wireless smart meters are a provincial initiative (intraprovincial). BC Hydro is mandating the use of the device and, according to Jim Laursen in In. Can., BC Hydro is the user of the device, not the homeowner.????
5. It would appear, then, that whatever legal action we might contemplate would involve the Province.
The Province may take the position that agreeing to using electricity is tacit acceptance of the wireless meter. We could argue that BC Hydro is a monopoly and, since no other source of electricity is available, the home owner is forced to use a device found by WHO to be a 2B carcinogen to be placed on the home. We could argue that it is the responsibility of the municipality to advise the province’s Minister of Health of a potential health hazard and that it is the expectation that the Ministry of Health to act in an appropriate manner and not to do so would be contrary to the protections inherent in the Municipal Charter and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Whether these arguments would hold any traction with the Courts is, of course, moot.
Whether legal action would be on a provincial, a municipal, or a federal stage would have to be determined by people conversant with the issues and the various authorities.
6. Where In. Can. will likely become involved (because it is required to) is if the device interferes with other electronic equipment. It’s policy is to advise the concerned parties to work out a solution between themselves, but where this is not possible, it is required to step in.
It is an interesting question as to whether In. Can. will step in – or even if it is allowed to – if there are health complaints stemming from the wireless meter and grid since public health is in provincial jurisdiction.
Please understand that while I have been struggling with these issues for some time now, I would appreciate that the musings above to be considered as just that – musings, to be corrected or built upon as the evidence presents itself.
Dennis Noble