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Utilities Use of Misinformation to Promote Smart Meters

Sedona AZ (October 3, 2012) – The following is a Letter to the SedonaEye.com Editor also copied to the Sedona City Council, Mayor and Vice Mayor shared by Nancy Baer, Sedona Arizona about the potential dangers of Smart Meters and the possible use of misinformation to promote smart meters to an unsuspecting public:

Dear Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council Members:

Below is a response from Curtis Bennett, Chief Science Officer, Interprovincial Journeyman Electrician (Red Seal) about a website with mis- and dis-information that appears to be industry sponsored.

Please read below and see the attached.

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From: Thermoguy  Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 9:24 PM

Subject: Re: Website looks to be industry created

Smart Meter

Hello Nancy,

This is more of the same with professionals speaking over their expertise. I say that with any due respect to intent but everyone is caught up in the same error of addressing end use devices instead of the entire wireless access network.

Share this with your own city officials that errored in accepting the reporting of the California Council on Science and Technology. With great respect for the professionals involved in the reporting and the unbiased reporting, it contains serious errors.

The FCC, IEEE, ANSI, Health Canada and other international agencies only considered the smart meters for safety when the meter is an end use device. The rest of the wireless access network was left out of the equation.

Here is an example for you. The Texas Public Utilities Commission considers the distance for typical exposure for smart meters 0.0018 W/sq. meter at 10 feet for 1-2 seconds. The meter is the end use device only. Oncor, a Texas utility declared through their lawyer the average geographical area covered by their routers is 5 sq. miles and the collectors 125 sq. miles.

Smart meter

When you are considering the radiated EMF exposure, you have to consider the whole wireless access network from the utility to end use device. The Texas example means 100s of square miles are being radiated and that includes everything in the field.Next error in the reporting is people were treated as heating meat or tissue, not vulnerable, intricate, uninsulated biological systems with their own electrical properties and many unlisted frequencies. You can’t leave frequencies out of a frequency interaction equation, it gave IEEE and others an incomplete equation.

By incorporating the changes, you have a biological killing field of 100s of sq. miles per collector and a frequency weapon against buildings as well as infrastructure.

Topping that off are the frequencies creating charges over the 100s of sq. miles where a static charge could set off explosions in volatile areas.

Electromagnetically inducing currents into biological systems with their own electricity, electromagnetically inducing pacemakers, health monitoring equipment, neurological & muscle stimulation, high speed polarization of molecules at billions of times per second including buildings.

That is just for starters and the reason we wire the world. The frequencies are illegal as applied without exception. BC Hydro considered meter safe, left out the routers, relays and towers creating their own killing field. That is separate of the meters being swapped by laborers not electrically qualified to touch the meters, especially under load. http://www.thermoguy.com/blog/index.php?itemid=98

The frequencies bathing areas will knock the foliage off the trees and subject the ground to solar radiation that will kill fish spawning. http://youtu.be/lsuP_WBBr2c We are documenting solar impact on the ground just short of boiling temperature. http://www.thermoguy.com/blog/index.php?itemid=88

I have attached a Publication of the Texas PUC and highlighted areas while placing notes over areas with comments. The note areas have to be double clicked to open.

Sincerely,

Curtis Bennett
Chief Science Officer
Interprovincial Journeyman Electrician(Red Seal).

Building Construction Engineering Technologist/ Adjunct Faculty For 2 Medical Education Groups/33 Year Advanced Thermography Background/Thermografix Consulting Corporation/http://www.thermoguy.com/blog/curtis@thermoguy.com

—– Original Message —–

From: Nancy Baer

To: thermoguy.com ; Elizabeth Kelley ; ‘Fx Greek’  Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 1:02 PM

Subject: Website looks to be industry created

When you can, please take a look at this site and share it with Dr. Havas, etc.  Rebecca Hanna from Maryland Smart Meter Awareness just posted this recently on FB.

It is spreading BS under the guise of being helpful  http://www.emfandhealth.com/

Nancy Baer 
Sedona AZ

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3 Comments

  1. Edgar Murdoch report from Canada on October 4, 2012 movement:

    A nucleus of red-shirted, placard waving and enthusiastic opponents of BC Hydro and the Liberal government’s program to install wireless smart meters in every consumer location in the province, gathered in the vacant Honda dealer parking lot in Salmon Arm in the beautiful Shuswap region of British Columbia at noon on October the 4th. This particular autumn day was chosen by the USA and Canadian National Campaign to Stop Smart Meters and Wireless Radiation Protection Coalition, in order to bring awareness of the global opposition to the looming dangers and threats to the health, privacy and security of all living things everywhere to the attention of the authorities.

    Following a walk around Salmon Arm complete with flags and signs, honking horns, arm waving and thumbs-up from motorists and pedestrians alike, the now burgeoning crowd moved on to the Little City of Enderby where more concerned citizens joined in and a similar walk-around town evolved with a similar reaction from the public. If one leaned into the wind, one might have heard the unmistakable strains of “This land is our land…” being chanted by the group, now morphed into a mass choir.

    Formidable and friendly, motorized and somewhat noisier, the motorcade and rally swooped into the downtown core of Vernon where more sign and flag waving, thumbs-up and waves were accompanied by more honking horns including loud air blasts from passing diesel truck dual trumpets. Many remarkable and impromptu exchanges between the protesters and city pedestrians took place and more information distributed to the innocent recipients of this insidious technology.

    The day culminated with another walk-around in downtown Kelowna, with a majority of the original participants from Salmon Arm still forming the basis of the throng of demonstrators. By 7 o’clock the streets had cleared and a large public audience in the Mary Irwin Theatre of the Rotary Arts Centre participated in a dramatic power-point presentation by Jerry Flynn, retired Canadian Forces Military officer with 26 years of experience in electronic warfare, signals and the manipulation of microwave radio frequencies, as to how their adaptation and use in modern civilization in the form of cell phones, Wi-Fi, DECT phones and other wireless applications are causing adverse health reactions such as malignant tumours, leukemia, autism and other birth defects, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, dementia in the elderly, behavioural problems in the young, etc., etc., in populations world-wide.

    Wireless technology will, no, is becoming history’s next global plague and will kill or maim more than both the Bubonic and Smallpox plagues put together. Now is the time to return to democracy and take back the power!

  2. Nancy Baer says:

    Dear Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council Members:

    This is a follow-up to yesterday’s email to you with additional information for the “QVC Host Fainting on Live TV Holding an Android Tablet.” The news added something to the effect that her blood sugar level had dropped, but what is not mentioned is that the exposure to EMF is also the cause of Diabetes and that should be considered since she was holding an Adroid and the evidence discovered three years ago regarding how EMF disrupts normal communication between our cells to the point of causing Diabetes.

    It is very important that you consider the health dangers to your citizens and protect your own liability.

    Sincerely,
    Nancy Baer
    Sedona, AZ 86336

    Excerpt:
    In this peer-reviewed article, 4 case studies are presented that show marked changes in blood sugar associated with dirty electricity. Since so few people read scientific articles, I converted this paper into a short video called Diabetes and Electrosensitivity.
    Video http://www.magdahavas.com/diabetes-and-electrosensitivity/
    Article http://www.magdahavas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/08_Havas_Diabetes_EBM.pdf

    Excerpts:

    The connection between exposure to artificial electromagnetic radiation in high and low frequencies and the changing health of diabetics and MS sufferers is an established fact that has been demonstrated beyond doubt in numerous scientific studies [1] [2].

    This correlation can be demonstrated not only scientifically but also informally by any diabetic by comparing their glycaemia levels during a few minutes spent in an irradiated zone and in one where the radiation level is low. Those who continue to dismiss this as “pseudo-science” are simply denying the facts.

    Brad Weeks, MD 11/07/09 Diabetes and EMF – clearer picture – more scarey!

    http://weeksmd.com/2009/07/diabetes-and-emf-clearer-picture-more-scarey/

    From: Nancy Baer
    Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 1:41 PM
    To: ‘Barbara Litrell’; ‘Dan McIlroy’; ‘Jessica Williamson’; John Martinez; Mark DiNunzio; Mike Ward; Rob Adams
    Cc: ‘Tim Ernster’; ‘Nicholas Gioello’
    Subject: Demonstrating the Danger of WiFi

    Dear Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council Members:

    These videos demonstrate for you how sick some students become from the radiation from WiFi. Britain and France have removed WiFi.

    I urge you again to remove WiFi from any public buildings and schools in Sedona. If not to protect your citizens’ health, than to prevent your own liability.

    QVC Host FAINTING ON LIVE TV Holding an Android Tablet for Kids:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZdaHu_cbT4

    WiFi in schools proven dangerous – Canada’s Safety Code 6 is the same as the FCC:

    WiFi causes heart problems, headaches and other neurological disorders in children. Canadian Documentary exposes the truth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN7VetsCR2I

    More info at http://www.magdahavas.com

    Nancy Baer
    Sedona, AZ 8633

  3. Monnie Ramsell 11:20pm Oct 16
    Just spent 6 hours listening to the Smart Meters Opt out workshop in California. Learned a few things from them knowing that Arizona will be watching them very closely and will follow their footsteps.

    1. Utility companies usually start the procurement of smart meter 6 months before deployment. Once they spend the money ordering those meters, they will want us to foot the bill. APS told our City and AZCC that deployment of smart meters for Sedona is scheduled for 2013. For those of you who have not asked to be put on the delay/opt-out list, you need to do it ASAP. Commissioner Brenda Burns asked APS why charge the upfront opt-out fee, was it because to replace the smart meter with the analog meter. APS’ answer was yes. We need to all write to AZCC to remind them that we should not be charged a single penny because we are keeping our analog meter. It will be helpful if the City of Sedona officially asks APS to defer any deployment of smart (automated) meters until an opt-out plan or decision is made by AZCC. Fairfax’s mayor asked for a standstill of deployment from the utility till CPUC vote on opt-out and they agreed. This should not be a big deal for City of Sedona to ask for either.

    2. Individual opt out will not protect you from RF. Itron confirmed that the unobstructed range where Smart Meter’s signal can reach is 1,200 feet. Take out the Sedona neighborhood map, find your house and draw a circle of 1,200 feet radius. This is your safety zone. Unless there is no one within that 1,200 feet has a smart meter, you will be affected by the Microwave frequencies.

    3. If you opt out and most of your neighbors also opt out, the utility can still install a repeater or cell relay to bridge the gap for signals to cross to the next station. In fact, they can put this on a telephone pole right outside your window. These repeater and cell relay are more powerful than the regular smart meter. Now you get an idea why 56 cities and municipalities in California oppose smart meter. Unless we have a city wide ban preventing any smart grid related infrastructure to be installed within the city limit, you will still be bombarded by microwave. Paying a fee for opt-out in this case really offer no protection. Since Sedona does not currently have any smart meter installed, we should push for a no-fee city wide opt-out to create a true safety zone for those of us who are EMF sensitive and to provide a safe haven for all who have health concerns. This will increase our property value because you have to declare your Class 2B Carcinogenic meter if you sell your house with a smart meter.

    4. During the workshop, someone with technical background said that the power of 1-watt transmitter was increased to a rule-breaking 2.5-watt due to the 4 dBi antenna inside the meters. FCC limit is 1-watt. It was eventually admitted by the manufacturer of the meter that RF signal was indeed double. The gain of an antenna represents how well it increases effective signal power in a particular direction, with dBi (decibels relative to an isotropic radiator) as the unit of measure. dBi represents the gain of an antenna as compared to an isotropic radiator, which transmits RF signals in all directions equally. More precisely, dBi equals 10 times the logarithm (base 10) of the electromagnet field intensity of the antennas favored direction divided by the electromagnetic field intensity of an isotropic antenna (with measurements taken at the same distance). Every three dBi doubles the power of an RF signal. Thus in reality, smart meter exceeds FCC safety limits. Someone asked FCC about this and their reply was it was up to the utility company to confirm to their safety guideline. The utilities at the workshop still said they are within FCC limit in front of the judge.

    5. Anyone knowing all these still desires a smart meter should only do so with the wired option and with a filter installed to filter out the transient harmonic frequencies. Because of the SMPS switching mode power supply of the meter, dirty electricity or harmonics are generated and will flow downstream eight doors down to your neighbor’s house along the power grid. Dirty electricity is even more harmful than RF. We can’t stop anyone from committing suicide but harming anyone else is another matter. A no fee opt-out will enable anyone to choose freely without concerns of the ability to pay the extra fee. Pay an extra fee just to retain what we already have all along is another form of rate hike. Having to pay so we can avoid being harmed is extortion.

    Hr 1-CPUC ‘Smart’ Meter Opt-Out Workshop
    http://www.youtube.com

    This unedited recording of the CPUC Workshop on Smart Meter Opt-Out Options, Sept. 14, 2011, is posted on YouTube.

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