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Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 | 4:02 p.m.
CARSON CITY — The state Public Utilities Commission has set Feb. 29 for a special meeting to possibly make a decision on the controversial issue of smart meters.
Two workshops were held to gather evidence and to hear complaints from some ratepayers who claim the meters are not safe, that personal information will be released and the units are not accurate.
Some NV Energy and Sierra Pacific Power Co. of Reno customers want the right to reject the meters or to have one removed once installed at no cost.
The utilities earlier estimated it would cost $110 for an employee to visit a home initially and then $14 a month for a meter reader to continue to monitor the existing units.
Nevada Power has already installed more than 700,000 smart meters in Clark County, and Sierra Pacific Power started its work in December.
An investigative report by the PUC staff will be posted on the commission’s website Thursday.
SMART METER HEALTH PROBLEMS AND CANCER.
1. SMART METERS -- 100 TIMES MORE RADIATION THAN CELL PHONES. Video Interview: Nuclear Scientist, Daniel Hirsch, (5 minutes)
http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/20/da...
2. SMART METERS -- CANCER, NERVOUS SYSTEM DAMAGE, ADVERSE REPRODUCTION AFFECTS. Video Interview: Dr. Carpenter, New York Public Health Department, Dean of Public Health, (2 minutes)
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?p=39461
3. The NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE Calls for Halt To Smart Meters in Homes and Schools.
http://electromagnetichealth.org/electro...
4. The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION May 31 2011 placed the Non-ionizing radiation coming from Wireless Smart Meters (& some other wireless devices) on the Class 2-B CARCINOGEN LIST.
http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/20...
5. The NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH Feb 2011 found biological changes in the brain after only minutes of exposure to non-ionizing radiation.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/305/8/8...
6. LABORATORY SCIENTISTS have observed
(1) Human Cell Damage
(2) DNA Chain Breaks
(3) Breaches in the Blood-Brain Barrier
from levels of non-ionizing radiation lower than emitted by WIRELESS Smart meters.
http://electromagnetichealth.org/electro...
7. INSURANCE COMPANIES won't insure smart meters due to biological damage seen by scientists they hired. TV Video (3 minutes)
http://eon3emfblog.net/?p=382
Cell Phone use and other devices are Voluntary and can be shut off at the user's discretion, but Smart meters mounted on homes are emitting radiation 24/7 and can not be shut off.
PG$E, California's Utility Monopoly, recently admitted that each smart meter transmits radiation between 10,000 & 190,000 times each day.
This corrects previous false statements repeated often by utility companies across the country.
NOTE: many of the tests on non-ionizing radiation (the type of radiation emitted by smart meters) have been done using devices other than smart meters because smart meters have only been in people's homes for a very short time.
But as a Wireless smart meter emits 100 times more radiation than a cell phone, it is not difficult to project. If a machine gun (smart meter) fires 100 bullets in the same time that a pistol (cell phone) fires one bullet, it is not difficult to project the harm that the machine gun can do, even if the tests were done with the pistol.
HACKERS SEE OUR SMART METER ACTIVITIES BETTER THAN WE DO
Utility companies and hackers can access your precise activities in your home, but the utility customer living in the home CANNOT get that information.
The information available to the customer living in the home shows up on the utility company website 18-24 hours later with all devices grouped together, so no individual device can be isolated for the customer.
Customers cannot see what the hacker or utility company can see. Without knowing how much each device uses, the customer cannot use the smart meter information to improve or conserve their energy use.
So unless the customer can hack the information spewing from their own wireless smart meter, the smart meter information provided by the utility company for the customer is useless to the customer.
SMART METERS REJECTED
Palo Alto, the center of California's Silicon Valley, Rejects Smart Meters.
Smart Meter benefits are overstated and Smart Meter COSTS are greater than benefits.
"and customers (and/or taxpayers funding federal grants) are left with $ Billion dollar smart meter programs on their shoulders.
http://paloalto.patch.com/articles/no-sm...
NV Energy must be expecting a "win" at the Public Utilities Commission, because just yesterday we got a notice from them saying they are going to finish installing Smart Meters in our neighborhood.
Since the Smart meter was installed at my home, some of my appliances have been behaving badly. My thermostat, for example, has had weird messages displayed on it.
Consumers should have choice and not be punished if they opt to NOT have the Smart Meter, especially when they have NO choice over their utility service provider...NV Energy and SNWA have monopolies over our utilities here in Las Vegas.
Blessings and Peace,
Star
nv energy is the worst. My house has the meter inside due to an addition built in 1967. For the past 20 years I've asked them repeatedly for a transponder but they said I had to pay a fee, I think $50. The water and gas co added transponders for free; why not them since I'm saving them money. 3 years ago when I moved back here they would never show up on the day they were supposed to read the meter. They'd come knocking on my door 7, 7:30 in the morning on whatever day they wanted. So I gave them a key to the gate but every six months they lose the key and I have to call them and work it out. So I asked them this time can you install the smart meter on a weekend? Uh no, the meters are installed by a contractor and you have to work it out with them. Wow!?
Wonder if the smart meter has anything to do with my tv blowing circuit boards? Anybody know for sure?