Sedona AZ (April 17, 2016) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:

The Arizona Corporation Commission Just Can’t Stop Lying
Information & Perspective by Warren Woodward
Sedona, Arizona

The ACC is tasked with the responsibility to protect AZ ratepayers by weighing the costs and benefits of all state utility requests.

As you probably know, I appealed an Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) “smart” meter decision that was filed a year ago this month. The appeal was dismissed from Superior Court over a bogus jurisdictional issue, so I appealed that dismissal to the Court of Appeals. I made my case and the ACC recently answered. Typically, the ACC repeated their same old lies but actually invented some new ones.

One absolute whopper they told was that the Arizona Department of Health Services’ “smart” meter study concluded that “smart meters have not been shown to be injurious to human health.”

I could not believe it when I read that. Are they so stupid that they don’t realize by now that I am checking their every word? Or are they so brazen they think they can just lie with impunity because they have gotten away with it in the past? Who knows? In any case it’s pretty amazing that they have no problem telling lies in court.

In actual fact, the ADHS study concluded that, “Exposure to electric meters (AMI and AMR) is not likely to harm the health of the public.“

There is a big difference between “not shown to be injurious” and “not likely to harm.” “Not shown to be injurious” is conclusive. “Not likely to harm” means that harm is in fact a possibility.

The ACC was so deceptive that twice I caught them footnoting to stuff that had absolutely no correlation to the footnoted sentence. Again, are they so stupid that they don’t think I am checking? Or are they so brazen they figure they can just get away with anything? A third, and probably more likely possibility, is that they are so brainless they don’t even know right from wrong.

I am allowed a Reply Brief to the ACC’s Answering Brief. If anyone is interested in the details of just how dreadfully dishonest the ACC is, a copy of the Reply Brief that I filed can be had by sending an email to me at w6345789 “at” q.com.

Something I reveal for the first time is an example of the ADHS “smart” meter study work sheets I got via a public records request. Microwave measurements were taken of various “smart” meters for the study. Random addresses were chosen. Measurements of some analog meters were taken as a control. Those should show zero microwaves. The measuring equipment used was so inaccurate that the work sheets for the analog meters showed them transmitting microwaves, an absolute impossibility since the analog meters tested did not have microwave transmitters!

After the ADHS study came out, both a measuring professional and I told the ACC that the measurements were a farce. I even proved it in a video. But in their unbridled arrogance and complete disdain for the Public, the ACC just didn’t care.

Warren Woodward
Sedona AZ

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