PORTLAND, Maine — A group of Central Maine Power ratepayers has filed an appeal with the state’s highest court in its fight against the utility’s use of smart meters.
Lead plaintiff Ed Friedman and other CMP customers are appealing the Public Utilities Commission’s dismissal of their complaint challenging CMP’s program to replace 600,000 traditional electric meters with wireless digital devices known as smart meters.
The appeal filed with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court claims smart meters can create health problems and are an invasion of privacy because information they collect can be used for personal profiling.
CMP says smart meters are safe, cut energy use and allow utilities to pinpoint problems during power outages more quickly.
The PUC allows CMP customers to opt out of using the meters for $12 a month.
The Meters do not cut energy usage, they only confirm to the customer that “Yes you have indeed been using energy.” Customers are the ones who need to take action to conserve, not the meters. The whole “we will be able to show you your usage” is just the small feature the consumer gets in this utility scam.
The meters were designed to let the utility fire their meter reading work force. The time of use (TOU) schemes were developed as an additional money maker and reason the meters “are necessary”.
Where is the data collected over the years which proves these meters are safe? I know people who are suffering immediate physical symptoms after being exposed to the meters.
SMART METER RADIATION
PG&E, Northern California’s Utility Monopoly, recently admitted to 10,000 to 190,000 pulsed radiation transmissions per day from each smart meter. This corrects previous false statements repeated often by utility companies across the country and some media.
If we use 25,000 radiation pulses per day as an example and only count the burst time of 2/1000 of a second each, then the total transmission time is about 50 seconds, less than a minute and that is how the utility understates and misrepresents the radiation problem. It would be similar to counting only the detonation time of bombs and then calling a 24-hour city bombing a 50-second bombing as that would be the total detonation time of bombs that exploded every few seconds over a 24 hour period.
For those who go to the laboratory to actually test the non-ionizing radiation emitted by smart meters, they observed (1) cell damage, (2) DNA chain breaks and (3) breaches in the blood brain barrier from radiation levels considerably lower than emitted by the smart meter.
WIRELESS SMART METERS – 100 TIMES MORE RADIATION THAN CELL PHONES.
Video Interview:
Nuclear Scientist, Daniel Hirsch, (5 minutes)
http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/20/daniel-hirsch-on-ccsts-fuzzy-math/
Due to the inverse cube law of emitted radiation, at what distance from the source were these reading taken? What frequency/wavelength? Any measurements made on radiation from left turn lanes?
It is the Inverse SQUARE law, not the inverse CUBE law.
Distances typical from sleeping and living locations in the home were tested and the damage was observed (in test tubes with human cells and in laboratory rats – since it is still illegal to expose humans in the laboratory. Only the utility companies are exposing people).
The damage done by the smart meter on your home stated in my above comment does NOT include the damage done from radiation coming into your home to reach your meter from the hundreds of other meters in your community. This additional incoming radiation should be less harmful due to its greater source distance and the reduction of exposure from that distance.
First of all the customers that should be charged are the ones that
are receiving the so called benefits of the smart meter system NOT the customers
that are not receiving the service or benefits (backwards logic). Second,
the customers that choose NOT to receive the service have already paid
through their federal taxe dollars that funded the U.S. Department of Energy
Grants which paid half the cost of the smart meter system. Third the federal
enabling act for the smart meter system, the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, specifically requires that the each state must “offer” the smart meter services to customers not “mandate” their use, so if state PUCs were adhering to FEDERAL LAW they would not be
forcing customers to have a smart meter and then extorting fees for choosing not
to have one. And finally, wireless smart meters are designed to store the
host customers usage data AND to store and transmit other peoples usage data, so
essentially taking the host customers private property to be used by the utility as a their own business relay station in violation of the 5th Amendment to the US Constitution i.e. taking private property for public use without owner consent, just compensation, or due process of law! And what about the 4th and 14th amendments to the US constitution
i.e.our right to privacy in our own homes and to protect our family from what
we precieve to be dangerous? Every US citizen has these rights and better start
defending them rigourously because not doing so is the same as giving your
consent to the violations. PUC/State is violating the laws and should not get away with it!
When you opt out you must pay $40. and then $12. per month or $144. per year, not to have an invasion of privacy and a health hazard on your property! My light bill averages $18. per month, so it will almost double! This is very expensive for low income people who have no choices with electic monopolies.