Gulf Islands Driftwood – Letters<\/p>\n
Published: May 18, 2011 10:00 AM<\/strong><\/p>\n Re: \u201cSmart meters safe\u201d letter, May 11 Driftwood.<\/p>\n Interesting comment by Dr. John Blatherwick regarding safe smart meters. I notice he doesn\u2019t mention the considerable communications industry influence on the\u00a0World Health Organization, Health Canada and with former industry executives working for these supposedly \u201chealth care\u201d organizations, yet pushing industry agendas on an unsuspecting public.<\/p>\n Also, he doesn\u2019t mention his own admission that Canada\u2019s Safety Code 6 is far outdated \u2014 you can find that video on YouTube! \u2014 and that Hydro bases its opinion on SC6. He doesn\u2019t mention the many U.S. class action lawsuits by people losing homes because they\u2019re too sick to stay in them after smart meter installation, or the invasion of privacy aka\u00a0Big Brotherism that smart meters will provide to any hacker on the street.<\/p>\n He doesn\u2019t mention the considerable expense borne by taxpayers, a $1 billion contract given to Liberal insiders\u2019 companies, for an estimated $520-million saving over 20 years.<\/p>\n If Hydro spent that $1 billion of taxpayers\u2019 money installing solar panels on residences, they could channel electricity to B.C. businesses and save us all money \u2014 and our health.<\/p>\n And if California ever decided to generously repay the $1 billion they\u2019ve owed BC Hydro for many years, we wouldn\u2019t be having this discussion!<\/p>\n CHRISTEL MARTIN,<\/strong><\/p>\n Nanaimo, B.C.<\/strong><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.bclocalnews.com\/vancouver_island_south\/saltspringislanddriftwood\/opinion\/letters\/122093313.html<\/p>\n Gulf Islands Driftwood – Letters Published: May 18, 2011 10:00 AM Re: \u201cSmart meters safe\u201d letter, May 11 Driftwood. Interesting comment by Dr. John Blatherwick regarding safe smart meters. I notice he doesn\u2019t mention the considerable communications industry influence on the\u00a0World Health Organization, Health Canada and with former industry executives working for these supposedly \u201chealth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,70,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bchydro","category-blatherwick-2","category-bc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","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=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"