Referred to as “the smart meter debacle” by a CTV news anchor, the Saskatchewan government has ordered SaskPower to remove all 105,000 smart meters that have been installed across the province following several fires linked to the devices.
In a news conference on Wednesday, the Minister responsible for SaskPower, Bill Boyd announced that 105,000 smart meters in the province will be removed and replaced with the old meters. At least eight smart meters in the province have caught fire.
Update: On September 3, 2014, it was announced that the vendor responsible for the cell tower project withdrew its proposal to the Naperville school district. It is thought the growing public opposition to the towers may have played a role in this action. Possibly the information on this webpage will be of use to others where cell towers are proposed in the future on school grounds.
Last November, National Wireless and AT&T approached District 203 for permission to erect a 100-foot pole near the water tower behind Lincoln Junior High in Naperville, Illinois and a 75-foot pole at the front of Kennedy Junior High School in Lisle.
This website previously summarized the results of the Board of Education meeting from June 16, 2014, with an article entitled, “Naperville School District 203 Considers Leases for Cell Tower Installations.”
The latest Board of Education meeting was held on July 21st. Naperville School District 203 officials reiterated that no recommendation on a cell tower proposal will come before the board until at least September.
Questions You May Want to Ask Your Electric Power Company about Wireless Smart Meters
Introducing a new paper by Ronald M. Powell, Ph.D. …
Wireless “Smart” Meters are being installed on homes, buildings, and businesses by many electric power companies throughout the USA (and in many other countries), frequently on a mandatory basis. These new meters raise concerns about health, privacy, personal and cyber security, fire safety, and the cost of electricity, among other issues. Individuals, communities, and local and state governments are becoming increasingly aware of these concerns. The linked document written by Ronald M. Powell, Ph.D. suggests a starting place for questions you may want to ask your electric power company about Wireless Smart Meters.
Discussing a new generation in telecommunications technology, an Australian news report discusses “5-G,” a new super-fast wireless that may be coming by year 2020.
According to the news report:
“First there was ‘2G’, then ‘3G’, now Australia is busy rolling out ‘4G’. But technology companies in South Korea, China and Europe are busy talking the new super fast ‘5G’. So how is Australia placed in the race for the next telecommunication revolution?”
The Australian media program Today Tonight Adelaide aired two separate recent reports on the health risks and concerns over Wi-Fi emissions. These reports are quite informative and up-to-date. This website received permission to post the videos from those featured news reports.
There have been a number of articles appearing in the national media over the past few weeks outlining the dangers and risks of so-called “smart” utility meters. The smart grid mouthpiece website SmartGridNews.com even ran an article called, “Smart meters trapped between benefits and dangers, claims Forbes.” In quoting the Forbes article, SmartGridNews.com stated:
“Despite the promise of empowering people through enhanced consumption data… some people are scared and resist the idea of smart metering, citing concerns about meter accuracy, data security, and health,” wrote Forbes contributor Federico Guerrini. “Privacy is probably the most sensitive issue: similarly to what happens with phone calls metadata, information about the energy consumption of a family or of an individual, can reveal a lot of details about the life of the persons monitored.”
Update: On September 3, 2014, it was announced that the vendor responsible for the cell tower project withdrew its proposal to the Naperville school district. It is thought the growing public opposition to the towers may have played a role in this action. Possibly the information on this webpage will be of use to others where cell towers are proposed in the future on school grounds.
Introduction
On the evening of June 16th, 2014, the Board of Education for the Naperville, Illinois School District 203 met to discuss a “Proposed Cell Tower Lease at Lincoln and Kennedy Junior High Schools.”
Specifically, the Board of Education was requested “to review and consider information provided in order to advise Administration on its interest in formal consideration of the two requests.”
Nick Hunn [1] is a wireless technology expert who is quite skeptical of the purported benefits of smart meters and the current level of smart grid system security. He recently wrote an article entitled, “When Smart Meters Get Hacked” (June 8, 2014). What follows are some selected quotations from his article dealing primarily with the smart meter “feature” of remote disconnect:
“There‘s a lot of talk about grid security and data privacy in the energy industry, but very little about the consequences of what happens if smart meters go wrong. By going wrong, I don‘t just mean people attempting to hack their meters to reduce their bills. That will probably happen. I‘m more interested in the nightmare scenario when several million electricity meters suddenly disconnect. [emphasis added]
An international group of doctors and scientific experts is joining with non-profit organizations to urge pregnant women to limit their exposure to wireless radiation from cell phones and other devices by taking simple steps to protect themselves and their unborn children. The national public awareness campaign, called the BabySafe Project, is being coordinated by Grassroots Environmental Education and Environmental Health Trust, and is based on independent scientific research linking exposure to wireless radiation from cell phones during pregnancy to neurological and behavioral problems in offspring that resemble Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children.
The headline at SmartGridNews.com on May 15, 2014, was “Now utilities can tell customers how much energy each appliance uses (just from the smart meter data).” [emphasis added]
The above admission on what utilities can do with smart meter data is nothing new to those citizens who have opposed smart meters from the beginning. In March, for example, SkyVision Solutions wrote a blog article and issued a detailed report entitled, “New and Definitive Report: Smart Meters Do Invade Privacy” which exposed the propaganda of the smart grid industry for what it is.
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