More than 100 Texans have joined together to petition public
utilities regulators to ban so-called “smart” power meters
because of the health threats they impose on the general
public.
The meters are designed to
interact with various advanced electronic appliances to
monitor – and even manipulate – the use of power.
“Petitioners who have been
subjected to forced or compelled installation of smart
meters or have been
exposed to RF and EMF radiation generated by smart
meters fraudulently installed on neighboring homes and
businesses have experienced difficulties with symptoms of
insomnia, headaches, dizziness, nausea and other symptoms,”
states the petition, submitted to the Public Utilities
Commission of Texas by attorney Tom Cryer on behalf of Devvy
Kidd, John Kidd and more than 100 others.
Cryer said his goal is to
obtain a ruling on the dangers of the meters based on the
health risks they pose.
“It’s like rushing
thalidomide to the market … and not knowing the
consequences,” he said, referring to the 1950s and 1960s use
of the drug that caused major birth defects for children
whose mothers used it.
He said the problem is the
radio signals generated by the units.
“The meters are being pressed
by the utilities in anticipation of charging different rates
for usage at different times of the day and night, providing
the utilities with a premium for peak times and increasing
their profits,” explained an announcement about the
petition.
“Utilities also claim that
the smart meters will permit them to communicate with
‘smart’ appliances, such as air conditioners, dryers and
water heaters, turning them off when demands on the system
would otherwise require adjustments in electricity
distribution on the grid, saving utility companies money.
Many, however, are opposed to the installation of the meters
because they are a serious health risk, compromise the
consumers’ privacy and provide no savings or conservation
purposes.”
Cryer’s arguments continued,
“The ‘smart’ meters will not save the consumer any money,
since he will be subjected to higher time of day based rates
and to interruption of his use of appliances. The meters
will not reduce the amount of electricity a customer uses
nor will it result in any savings.”
He noted several state
legislators have requested a moratorium on further
installations until the meters can be tested. Many of their
constituents, the lawmakers say, have reported that after
installation of the meters their bills suddenly became much
higher although their use of electricity did not change.
He said consumers oppose them
for privacy and cost reasons, but the biggest danger is the
“known health risks.”
Cryer said the current
petition developed after Devvy and John Kidd, residents of
Big Spring, went nose to nose with their utility in July
2011, when the corporation wanted to install a “smart” meter
on their home.
Devvy is an investigative
journalist who began researching the health risks and due to
her husband’s medical issues decided to fight installation.
When the utility decided to play hardball by threatening to
terminate power to their home, she hired Cryer.
John Kidd is a retired U.S.
Army colonel and classified as medically disabled. Texas law
prohibits terminating power to any home where a disabled
person resides. Their concern was with the radio frequency
radiation and electromagnetic frequency radiation from the
meter that penetrated their home day and night.
“After decades of study the
scientific community and government health related agencies
are warning people to avoid additional exposures to RF and
EMF radiation because it has been linked to many ailments
including minor issues, such as headaches, nausea,
dizziness, to life threatening, such as heart function
interference, brain function interference, jamming of
pacemakers and insulin injectors, DNA disruption causing
birth defects and even cancer,” Kidd said.
The utilities have been
unrelenting, however.
The result is the petition
requesting an immediate moratorium on further installations
as well as a hearing on the risk to public safety from the
meters.
Cryer told WND that other
states are facing the same issues and have decided against
the technology upgrades. But those decisions largely have
been based on the nonexistent cost savings related to them.
He said the Texas case
focuses on the health risks.
Action movie actor, martial
arts champion and WND columnist Chuck Norris earlier
confronted the issue.
He asserted that complaints
about ailments from the “electrosmog” are not hysteria or
hype.
“Electrosmog is pollution
through electromagnetic energy. It is being produced by this
vast post-Edison world, in which electromagnetic fields and
flows have inundated the space around us,” he wrote.
He cited the work of Dr.
David Carpenter, head of the New York State Department of
Health for years, who said there is evidence that radio
frequency exposure at elevated levels for long periods of
time raises the risk of cancer and damage to the nervous
system.
Also, author Brian Sussman in
“Climategate” warns readers about the Smart Grid, Smart
Meters, Smart Thermostats and Energy Star appliances – which
he says will allow unseen bureaucrats to regulate all of the
appliances in America’s homes.
“This is not fantasy,” says
Sussman, an award-winning television meteorologist, “This is
reality. Smart Meters have already replaced the whirling,
old-fashioned electric meters on the side of millions of
houses in America – they monitor electricity usage
minute-by-minute and can be read remotely. The
remote-controlled Smart Thermostats are being installed as
well and further enable bureaucratic control the temperature
of your abode. The Smart Grid, which was mandated in the
2007 energy bill and funded with ‘stimulus’ money, is coming
next. The grid will possess interactive broadband
capabilities to further control all of the new-generation
Energy Star appliances you will be forced to purchase – like
your washer, dryer, water heater and even your flat-screen
TV.”
The petition alleges not only
are the meters a danger, the utilities, Oncor, Centerpoint,
Texas-New Mexico Power, AEP Texas Central and AEP Texas
North “have engaged in a concerted and deliberate campaign
to impose the installation, use and operation of so-called
‘smart meters’ on electricity consumers in their homes and
businesses, both against their expressed opposition and
without their valid and free and voluntary informed
consent.”
The “injury and illness, both
immediately inflicted and gradually inflicted by the smart
meters’ RF and EMF radiations is being imposed daily and
such harm is irreparable,” the petition contends.
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