{"id":5712,"date":"2014-03-18T23:29:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T06:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=5712"},"modified":"2015-03-01T23:49:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T06:49:24","slug":"5712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=5712","title":{"rendered":"Maple Ridge Smart Meter opponent calls police on installers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ron McNutt sent installers from Corix packing Tuesday, when neighbours asked them to install Smart Meters in a Darby Street townhouse complex. The analog monitoring system for six townhouses in the complex are located on the side of McNutt\u2019s house. \u00a0\u00a0Photograph By Eric Zimmer\/TIMES<\/em><\/div>\n
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Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Times<\/div>\n
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March 19, 2014<\/abbr><\/div>\n
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A Maple Ridge man continues his fight against new metering system.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

Death or jail are the only two things that a Maple Ridge man said will stop his fight against Smart Meter installation on the side of his house.
\nAnd on Tuesday, Ron McNutt, who lives in a townhouse on Darby Street, put those words into action when he called the police after Corix showed up on his property to install the new meters.
\nCiting trespassing by Corix, Mcnutt wasn\u2019t entirely sure\u00a0what would result from the call, and even recognized there was a possibility he might be arrested himself.
\nIn the end though, Corix left without installing the Smart Meters and McNutt was still a free man.
\nMcNutt, whose townhome has six analog meters installed on the side of his house for him and his neighbours, said he and the residents involved, have all previously agreed to pay the $35 opt-out fee to keep the old meters.
\nBut now, he said, two townhouse residents are selling their units and \u201chave changed their minds and want Smart Meters installed.\u201d
\nMcNutt explained he had a brain tumour that was removed in 2010, and said there\u2019s \u201cat least five\u201d studies that show a direct correlation between the wireless meters and risks of brain tumours.
\n\u201cI\u2019m refusing it on that grounds,\u201d he said.
\nMcNutt has no problem with people who want Smart Meters \u2013 so long as they\u2019re not on his home.
\n\u201cI say, fine just take your meter and put it on your house and have a Smart Meter \u2013 I have no problem with that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Letter: Criticism against Maple Ridge smart meter opponent unwarranted<\/span><\/h2>\n

MAPLE RIDGE-PITT MEADOWS TIMES<\/p>\n

AUGUST 18, 2014 09:28 PM<\/p>\n

Dear Editor,<\/p>\n

The recent letter writer Mr. Mead [Gabriola Effect continues to work<\/b><\/a>, July 2 Letters, TIMES] has seriously criticized one of Maple Ridge\u2019s local business owners.<\/p>\n

Mr. McNutt has serious and significant reasons to be concerned about the increasing amount of radiation in the area; he did not deserve the treatment he has received.<\/p>\n

For the record I did not know Mr McNutt when I was in the area, and have never met him.<\/p>\n

The recent letter-writer referencing Gabriola Effect as a reason to discount the potential of harm caused by the radiation from Smart Meters<\/strong> appears to have conveniently ignored the thousands of scientific papers \u2013 according to some researchers 25,000 scientific papers identifying the various harmful effects caused by Electromagnetic Radiation.\u00a0 Despite the various members of the radiation is good for you fan club claiming no consistent evidence to show radiation is harmful, there is overwhelming and consistent evidence that electromagnetic radiation does cause harmful biological effects<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

BChydro and others admit the time of use data will record and transmit personal use data about the users behind the smart meter \u2013 the full extent of how much or extensive the data collection is is not fully disclosed by BCHydro.<\/p>\n

When one looks at the various safety warnings in the safety manuals that accompany wireless devices (cordless phone, cell phone, wifi router, baby monitor, laptop etc) one will find in many warnings regarding the safe use of the devices \u2013 specific instruction on how far to keep the device away from the body to avoid negative health effect.<\/p>\n

Why would cell phone manufactures include safety warnings to keep the phone depending on make and model at least 5\/8 to 1 inch away from the body and head if there was no reason for concern. Why are health officials employers and Worksafe BC not encouraging people to read the manuals and use the devices in accordance with the manufacturers safety recommendations?<\/p>\n

Yes, electronic devices are appreciated by many who will not give them up.\u00a0 Years ago many refused to give up their \u201cright to smoke\u201d. \u00a0Just because one likes it does not give one the right to inflict a known carcinogen onto others.<\/p>\n

There certainly are issues with the distance the radiation can travel and the cumulative total amount of radiation one is exposed, the most critical area is in the near and intermediate field zone where there can be spikes of radiation of up to 100 times predicted according to a former Senior research Scientist at Motorola. The near and intermediate field around a cell phone are approximately 2 meters.<\/p>\n

Smart meters can be assumed to have a similar seriously unsafe zone around them.<\/p>\n

Interesting that your recent letter writer downloaded wiring diagrams from Texas Instruments to determine that Smart Meters made of Centrix are safe.\u00a0 He mentions working for Atomic Energy of Canada, I certainly hope his fact checking by downloading the wrong information is not an example of how he worked when he was at the AEC or his compression of working on equipment designed to eradicate cancer is an example of his understanding or electromagnetic radiation.\u00a0 The form of radiation is totally different.<\/p>\n

Your recent letter writer Mr. Mead, conveniently ignores the work of many scientist over the years. He also conveniently ignores much of basic science about radio frequency, especially\u00a0 the effects of near field radiation.<\/p>\n

Even Industry Canada\u2019s own documents express serious cautions with respect to near field radiation.\u00a0 Criticizing a former letter writer and saying he does not need to prove his theories to the recent letter writer is an example of a person that has a closed mind and sees no need to consider the facts before creating an opinion.<\/p>\n

There is far too much evidence available for any informed person to feel there is no reason to be concerned about the effects of electromagnetic radiation.\u00a0 Attempting to discount concerns because ones car radio can receive a signal is a clear effort on the part of Mr. Mead to divert the issues. A car radio does not transmit – it receives radiation (in the case of a car radio it requires very little radiation to translate a signal into sound on the radio and the antenna for the radio is outside the car as it is difficult for the signal to penetrate the car radio. One always gets better reception on as portable radio when it is held outside a car.<\/p>\n

Yes, Mr. Mead I have got the picture. Electromagnetic radiation can cause biological harm and we should all do as much as we can to reduce the amount of it in our environment.<\/p>\n

I am a former Maple Ridge resident, and I doubt I can return because of the increasing amount of emr in the area.<\/p>\n

Norm Ryder, Victoria<\/p>\n

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Ron McNutt sent installers from Corix packing Tuesday, when neighbours asked them to install Smart Meters in a Darby Street townhouse complex. The analog monitoring system for six townhouses in the complex are located on the side of McNutt\u2019s house. \u00a0\u00a0Photograph By Eric Zimmer\/TIMES Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Times March 19, 2014 A Maple Ridge man […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,17,128,3,54,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bchydro","category-bc","category-corix","category-health_and_safety","category-maple-ridge","category-smart-meter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712","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=5712"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5721,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}