{"id":7064,"date":"2015-05-15T10:34:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2015-09-11T10:40:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T17:40:44","slug":"residents-say-no-notice-on-smart-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=7064","title":{"rendered":"Residents say no notice on smart meters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dawn Russell is on member of a group concerned that FortisBC has begun swapping out old electrical meters for smart meters on the Penticton Indian Band.<\/div>\n
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by\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Steve Kidd – Penticton Western News<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0posted\u00a0May 14, 2015\u00a0at\u00a04:00 PM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A group of residents on the Penticton Indian Band are upset that installation of smart electricity meters by FortisBC went ahead without consultation.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Monday (May 4), seven fortis trucks came out and started switching out smart meters, without notifying homeowners they would be doing so,\u201d said Dawn Russell, one of a group of protestors that approached band council to intervene.<\/p>\n

Russell said the only notice they received came in the band\u2019s weekly newsletter on March 17.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis section here was the consultation we received,\u201d said Russell, indicating the notice in the newsletter.<\/p>\n

That prompted Russell and others to ask for a meeting through the band\u2019s community page on Facebook, to discuss concerns about smart meters before the installation started. That meeting never happened.\u00a0 Russell said she sees a number of concerns with smart meters, including the risk of fire, higher electrical costs and the radiation emitted by the devices.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of these questions haven\u2019t been answered by Fortis or by our own administration and that is who we asked to do the\u00a0 investigation,\u201d said Russell. \u201cWe elected them to represent us. Having this come out is not the job we expect from our chief and council.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Penticton, the city has ownership of the electrical utility, but on the PIB lands, Fortis is a separate company. Still, Russell feels band council could force a delay from Fortis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the\u00a0 opportunity to ask them for a delay until our concerns are met. We have the Fortis Line running right through here. If we wanted to, we have leverage,\u201d said Russell.<\/p>\n

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Dawn Russell is on member of a group concerned that FortisBC has begun swapping out old electrical meters for smart meters on the Penticton Indian Band. by\u00a0\u00a0Steve Kidd – Penticton Western News\u00a0\u00a0posted\u00a0May 14, 2015\u00a0at\u00a04:00 PM A group of residents on the Penticton Indian Band are upset that installation of smart electricity meters by FortisBC went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,102,191,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-nations","category-fortisbc","category-penticton","category-smart-meter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064","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=7064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7065,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions\/7065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}