{"id":7305,"date":"2015-12-10T01:17:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T08:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2015-12-10T01:25:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T08:25:24","slug":"group-hopes-for-green-light-in-proposed-class-action-lawsuit-against-smart-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=7305","title":{"rendered":"Group hopes for green light in proposed class-action lawsuit against smart meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver, BC, Canada \/ News Talk 980 CKNW | Vancouver&#8217;s News. Vancouver&#8217;s Talk<\/p>\n<header>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"mailto:Zameer.karim@corusent.com\">Zameer Karim<\/a><\/div>\n<div>December 07, 2015 11:22 am<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BC Hydro was in court Monday defending its smart meter program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Members of the group Citizens for Safe Technology are trying to certify a class-action lawsuit against the Crown corporation, claiming the wireless microwave technology used by smart meters is harmful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Member Sharon Noble says she wants the right to choose when it comes to smart meters.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cWe want what is rightfully ours, a choice to decide if we want to have something, that we consider dangerous to be put on our homes or not.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BC Hydro has maintained the devices, which transmit hydro readings wirelessly, are safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">None of the allegations has been proven in court.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cknw.com\/2015\/12\/07\/concerned-group-hoping-for-green-light-in-smart-meter-civil-suit\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.cknw.com\/2015\/12\/07\/concerned-group-hoping-for-green-light-in-smart-meter-civil-suit\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Vancouver, BC, Canada \/ News Talk 980 CKNW | Vancouver&#8217;s News. Vancouver&#8217;s Talk Zameer Karim December 07, 2015 11:22 am BC Hydro was in court Monday defending its smart meter program. Members of the group Citizens for Safe Technology are trying to certify a class-action lawsuit against the Crown corporation, claiming the wireless microwave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,17,103,162,153,161,18,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bchydro","category-bc","category-canada","category-class-action","category-court","category-legal-action","category-smart-meter","category-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305","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=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7310,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions\/7310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}