Written by: Daniel Jennings Grid Threats December 18, 2014 A massive magnetic solar storm could knock out much of the US electrical grid and leave 130 million people in the dark, a report from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) concludes. The Federal Interagency Response Plan – Space Weather 2012 was released due to a […]
December 18, 2014Posted in: BC Hydro VICTORIA – B.C. Hydro’s fees to customers in their Meter Choices program are too high and should be reduced, says New Democrat spokesperson for Hydro, Adrian Dix. “The fees being charged to participants in the Meter Choices program are out of step with what other utilities charge and don’t represent a reasonable […]
Monica Kleja Published December 17, 2014 15:05 Some 40 organizations deliver strong critique against report by the WHO Expert Group on the effects of mobile phone radiation and requires increased transparency of the experts. In November, a group of experts working for the World Health Organization drafted a major report that assesses health risks surrounding […]
Smart meter fails in White City BY CLARE CLANCY/CANADIAN PRESS, LEADER-POST DECEMBER 18, 2014 Saskatchewan’s Crown utility is investigating another smart-meter failure after one of the devices overheated and melted on Tuesday. WHITE CITY — Saskatchewan’s Crown utility is investigating another smart-meter failure after one of the devices overheated and melted on […]
By André Fauteux La Maison du 21e siècle magazine https://maisonsaine.ca/sante-et-securite/electrosmog/effets-biologiques-des-compteurs-intelligents-pour-analyse-veritablement-independante.html Initially, Montrealer Pierre Lepage was glad to receive the letter Hydro-Québec mailed him in 2011. It announced the upcoming replacement of the six electric meters located in his basement appartment’s kitchen, by wireless “smart” meters that communicate with radiofrequency microwaves (RF/MWs). “I told myself, thanks to […]
Monday, 15 December 2014 10:59 By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report If the US Navy gets its way, it will begin flying Growler supersonic warplanes over Olympic National Forest and wilderness areas of the Western Olympic Peninsula next September in order to conduct electromagnetic warfare training exercises. As Truthout previously reported, this would entail flying 36 […]
Diddums. ‘No feasible way to maintain time-scales’ – Crapita By Kat Hall, 4 Dec 2014 The timescale for the installation of 50m smart meters at a cost of £11bn is up for revision (again), junior minister and member of the House of Lords, Baroness Verma, has admitted. By 2020, the government wants everyone to have a smart […]
Smart meters were supposed to cost $1 billion. In fact, the total cost will be double that amount. (even at double, the cost per meter is only $416.67 vs. $555 in BC). The energy ministry grossly over-estimated the benefits of the smart meter program. It figured the benefit would be $600 million […]
By Benny Evangelista Updated 8:38 pm, Monday, December 8, 2014 Two East Bay residents are suing Comcast for plugging their home’s wireless router into what they call a power-wasting, Internet-clogging, privacy threatening network of public Wi-Fi hotspots. The class-action suit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on behalf of Toyer Grear and […]
Toronto Sun BY CHRISTINA BLIZZARD, QMI AGENCY FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 09, 2014 03:58 PM EST | UPDATED: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 09, 2014 04:11 PM EST Turns out Smart Meters were a really dumb idea. Who knew? Well, beleaguered homeowners desperately trying to pay their skyrocketing hydro bills certainly had a pretty good idea. Now […]
