Published on May 11, 2013
Cindy Sage, environmental consultant and editor of the groundbreaking international study ‘The BioInitiative Report‘ on the health effects of electromagnetic radiation exposure, shares the results of her research and how it relates to wireless ‘smart’ meters with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. First of two parts.
For more information: http://sagereports.com/smart-meter-rf/ http://www.bioinitiative.org/
Part 1
Part 2
There have been many reports, both official and anecdotal, that Smart Meters have started fires in homes.
Yet, the power companies have been able to resist having to deal with the issue and have been able to hide their complicity.
See this report entitled A message for Fire Fighters and Insurers.
https://stopsmartmetersbc.com/fires/a-message-for-fire-fighters-and-insurers/
Quebec-based magazine La Maison du 21e siecle asked physician David O. Carpenter, former founding dean of the University at Albany (NY)’s School of Public Health, to comment an open letter published in the Montreal daily Le Devoir on May 24 2012. This letter claimed wireless smart meters pose no risk to public health. More than fifty international experts contributed to the following rebuttal.
We, the undersigned are a group of scientists and health professionals who together have coauthored hundreds of peer-reviewed studies on the health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs). We wish to correct some of the gross misinformation found in the letter regarding wireless “smart” meters that was published in the Montreal daily Le Devoir on May 24. Submitted by a group Quebec engineers, physicists and chemists, the letter in question reflects an obvious lack of understanding of the science behind the health impacts of the radiofrequency (RF)/microwave EMFs emitted by these meters.
Smart Meters are connected to the computers at BC Hydro and Fortis BC through Smart Grids or Mesh Networks.
The Smart Grids are composed of many Smart Meters that communicate with each other and a controller. Each Smart Meter can communicate with its neighbours. This allows a message or packet of information to be sent from the controller to any smart meter in its domain and that meter to send the answer (kWh readings or simply “I am ok”) back to the controller.
There are may types of power meters being used in the world and quite a few in BC