When Wayland Annual Town Meeting last April defeated the
$700,000 DPW capital fund line item to install
wireless smart meters on every building in town, it was
an important victory for citizens. Today, as citizen and
ratepayer opposition mounts across the country and
internationally to the compulsory installation by electric,
gas, and water utilities of wireless so-called “smart”
meters, the corporate propaganda mill is in high gear. Those
who oppose the plan on valid grounds of safety, public
health, privacy, democratic choice, and national security
are called fear-mongers against renewable energy and an
upgraded power grid.
In Massachusetts, the utilities companies are going into
towns and cities to set up “pilot” programs, installing
“smart” meters on homes and businesses. These meters create
documented health and safety effects and other serious
problems. Now is the time for homeowners to write to their
utility companies and tell them “NO” to smart meters.
This top-down, short term corporate profit scam has nothing
to do with reversing long term, carbon-emission-driven
climate change and has everything to do with increasing
short-term utility profits at rate-payer expense. In fact,
the huge energy costs of manufacturing hundreds of millions
of “smart” meters outweigh any potential conservation gains.
Customer cost savings also are an illusion. Utilities are
replacing functioning $25 analog meters that last up to 40
years with $100 electronic meters that last maybe 10 years
at most. Utilities are charging their ratepayers the
enormous cost of the meters, which is millions of dollars.
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) wants
an immediate moratorium on smart meter installations. Listed
as “Not Safe” by the AAEM, “smart” meters should be replaced
with analog meters when people request such changes.
Children are at particular risk for altered brain
development and impaired learning and behavior.
What could a citizen do to stop “smart” meters? Write his
town board of selectmen or city councilors, state
representative, and state senator, to urge them to sponsor
or support a law or rule to set up opt in/opt out measures
for homeowners with no cost penalties.
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