{"id":2663,"date":"2011-05-26T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2011-05-26T17:38:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:38:38","slug":"radiation-from-hydros-smart-meters-may-be-too-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=2663","title":{"rendered":"Radiation from Hydro&#8217;s Smart Meters may be too dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;\">BY SUSAN FLETCHER, VANCOUVER <\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;\">SUN MAY 26, 2011<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A wireless Smart Meter (SM), the type mandated for all BC Hydro customers, emits one hundred times the radiation of a cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the conclusion of nuclear expert, Daniel Hirsch, after finding flaws in a report to the California legislature which claimed Smart Meter radiation is 100 times less.<\/p>\n<p>The report hadn&#8217;t accounted for the whole body, 24\/7 radiation of an SM compared to the head directed, relatively infrequent radiation from a cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>Although SMs are too new to form definitive conclusions regarding their long-term risk, data from several studies show about twice the risk of a rare kind of brain tumour in those who&#8217;ve used a cellphone half an hour a day for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>These tumours normally take 40 years to develop.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid health risks, security breaches and high costs of upkeep, The Citizens for Safe Technology advocate wired SMs.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Fletcher Sechelt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/health\/Radiation+from+Hydro+Smart+Meters+dangerous\/4842229\/story.html#ixzz1NVa1PSKB\">http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/health\/Radiation+from+Hydro+Smart+Meters+dangerous\/4842229\/story.html#ixzz1NVa1PSKB<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY SUSAN FLETCHER, VANCOUVER SUN MAY 26, 2011 A wireless Smart Meter (SM), the type mandated for all BC Hydro customers, emits one hundred times the radiation of a cellphone. That&#8217;s the conclusion of nuclear expert, Daniel Hirsch, after finding flaws in a report to the California legislature which claimed Smart Meter radiation is 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bchydro","category-bc","category-health_and_safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}