Sedona AZ (January 19, 2014) – The following letter to the SedonaEye.com editor alerts the public to Smart Meter installations planned to begin this week in local communities. The writer asks that this article be social networked and shared with all readers contacts so property owners and renters are aware of their rights to say NO to Smart Meters installations:
SMART METER ALERT FOR RESIDENTS:
APS will begin installing Automated (Smart) Meters in Cottonwood area beginning Monday. After that, Sedona will probably be next. APS will give one-day notice by hanging a tag on your door.
If you have a blue tag on your analog meter (see second photo), you will be safe. If not, even if you have opted out (e.g., refused), you’ll need to send another written notice to APS and to the Arizona Corporation Commission via mailmaster@azcc.gov, with copies to Commissioner Brenda Burns burns-web@azcc.gov and Gary Pierce pierce-web@azcc.gov stating that you have opted out, but did not receive a blue tag on your analog meter. Here’s why this is important.
Analog mechanical meter with tag
The opt out fee will be determined by the total number of rate payers who have refused smart meter installations and have a blue tag. If the total number of rate payers opting out is low, APS will ask for a higher opt-out fee. Therefore, the utility is discouraging rate payers from opting out by telling them that currently there is no option to opt out, or saying that rate payers don’t need a blue tag.
APS will attempt to justify that a high opt out fee is necessary because so few ratepayers have opted out.
The greater the number of people formally opting out, the lower the cost to read the meter.
It is unconscionable that the Arizona Corporation Commission is allowing APS to continue installing Smart Meters in the face of research documenting the dangers and Health Agencies in other states recommending to their commissions that the state or county refuse Smart Meters until they are proven safe.
Please share this with all of your contacts ASAP. This is your last chance to keep your analog meter.
http://www.azcc.gov/Divisions/Administration/Contact.asp
Nancy Baer 245 San Patricio Drive Sedona, AZ 86336
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CONSUMER RADIATION OCCURRENCE REPORT –
ANYONE can submit to the FDA reports of ill health resulting from CONSUMER
radiation emitting devices can be filled out by downloading, printing and
then sending it to the mailing address listed on FDA reporting form-3649
titled “ACCIDENTAL RADIATION OCCURRENCE REPORT”:
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/ReportsManualsForms/Forms/UCM236066.pdf
Be sure to select the Microwave Radiation EMF category listed on page 2:
“Microwave Communication, Data Transmit, and Measurement Products
(Including CB radios, cell phones, walkie-talkies, household remote
controllers)” by putting an X in the box next to that category.
List the health problem experienced, when it started, what consumer device
caused the health problem and how, how long did the problem last, etc, did
you need to go to the hospital or see a doctor, etc.
Then put it in an envelope and mail it with the appropriate postage [this
form is 5 pages long and they do not accept fax or email. It must be sent
via USPS to the following address listed on the form (please note there is
no fax number listed):
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Document Mail Center ? WO66-G609
10903 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002
Currently, no doctors, no consumers, no one has any idea that one can fill
out a Consumer Radiation Occurrence report at all to the FDA! We’ll have to
figure out how to get the word spread out. Mary Ellen Taylor has said she’s
submitted changes to the form to expand and add more categories for wireless
consumer devices that emit radiation.
Radiation Mo Figs not welcome!!!!
That is you APS,
Verizon in Clarkdale,
AT&T wherever you can find a space.
Hit the road. You did not bother with us all these years because it was not lucrative, now it is. We don’t need no pulsed microwave radiation, go away now, bye bye…
Cottonwood begins installing so called Smart Meters today — Sedona next — Important info – Posted Jan 18th encouraging OPT OUT Status – to prevent high fees. It is my understanding that No fees have been approved by AZ Corporate Commission at of this time. You will NEED to have the BABY BLUE TAG… Please read for details.
NO SMART METERS anytime anywhere
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I have had a so called “smart meter” on my house for over a year now, with absolutely no crazy side effects. (Except for my dogs extra head) If any one bothers to read the spec sheets on these things, they will see that the ‘radiation’ put of by them is miniscule in comparison to most other radio devices.
Who has a cordless phone in their house? That puts off a heck of a lot more radiation than these meters. Besides… ‘radiation’ in this context is RADIO WAVES. like a cell phone, or Wi-Fi. Or a…. radio tower, that delivers tv and RADIO signals, like you listen to in your car. Want to measure the radiation off one of those? Know what else puts off radiation? Microwave transmissions for things like police and fire services. So that your house won’t burn down and the first responders can actually respond.
Remember, your not a Luddite. Things were just better back in the day, that’s all.