Smart meters not harmful, says B.C. health official
The right reason to oppose smart meters is that they are the gateway to electricity rationing. The CBC reports, B.C.’s provincial health officer says he has seen nothing that would change his mind...
View ArticleTelegraph: Smart meters for energy to be voluntary
“Plans to force households to have energy smart meters installed have been shelved over health and privacy fears.” The Daily Telegraph reports, The Government had promised that every household would...
View ArticleSmart Meters Are Part Of Agenda 21
“Smart meters are a tool of Agenda 21 and not to be tolerated.” Sharon Peker of the Chattanooga Tea Party writes at the Chattanoogan: … Smart meters may be “smart” but they are not private. Once a...
View ArticleSmart Meters: ‘We must separate skepticism, conspiracy’
Smart meters are the gatewy to electricity rationing. Canada.com comments: About a dozen tenants in one Nanaimo apartment building recently complained that B.C. Hydro smart meters were boosting their...
View ArticlePhysician group questions smart meters
Privacy and electricity rationing, not safety, are the problems with smart meters. The Portland Tribune reports: A Kansas physicians’ group is questioning the safety of wireless smart meters, which...
View ArticleMartine Victor: Our rights, metered
Smart meter problems: privacy, yes; cancer; no. So Martine is half-right. Martine Victor writes at the Daily Caller: It’s time to sound the alarm: Power companies in Vermont have officially declared...
View ArticleSmart meters 101: Five things you need to know
But the Las Vegas Sun gets one of those five things wrong. The Sun reports in “Smart meters 101: Five things you need to know“: What is a smart meter, and why do we have them? Smart meters are digital...
View ArticleUtilities ‘invite’ customers to download their data on electricity use with a...
If you can monitor your electricity use, so can the government. Guess what the next step is. Climatewire reports: Nine utility companies and power suppliers have committed to provide customers with...
View ArticleBBC: ‘Tough’ rules govern smart meter data sharing
Spend £11.7bn to save £7bn… a good deal, by government standards. And um, ‘enterprising’ consumers can more easily defraud utilities. Consumers should be able to decide how much data smart meters...
View ArticleJust don’t call it a ‘smart meter'; Peco has begun installations
Last month Peco Energy Co. began installing the first of 1.6 million new-generation electric meters, part of a transformation that it hopes will revolutionize the way that customers communicate with...
View ArticleVermont utilities see growing ‘smart meter’ opposition
No, the wireless meters are not a threat to your health. Your wealth, on the other hand… Worries about health effects, privacy and cost are fueling growing opposition to wireless, digital “smart...
View ArticleSmart Meter: Rejected
Big Brother tried to sneak it past me. It’s a good thing I was home. My local utility came today to swap out my “unsmart” electric meter for a “smart” one. A utility man rang the doorbell just to...
View ArticleNY Times reporter believes in underground carbon sequestration
In an otherwise reasonable summary of some proposed major changes being suggested by the NYS Public Service Commission in how electrical utilities and their grids would operate, the reporter adds this...
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