People living in BC are having a tough time with BC Hydro and Fortis BC.
The problems we are fighting are
I have just visited a face book group that is trying to get consumers of power in Ontario which is supplied by Hydro ONE.
See this Face Book group and get ideas how we can fix our problems with BC Hydro and Fortis BC.
Do you know much about ZigBee?
The ZigBee network system that will talk to all of your utilities like the furnace, stove, and dishwasher, is coming down the tracks and like it or not, it will be a major factor in most homes in the next 3 years or so.
There are many benefits according to the industry that is building all of the electronics that make up the ZIGBEE system. Life is going to be so much better and happier and easier with ZIGBEE. Just think, you can check on the temperature of your refrigerator from work or turn on the furnace automatically on your way home or dim the dining room lights from your smart phone.
However, there are many problems that have been identified about the ZIGBEE system:
RF Radiation will be increased and will be generated by ALL of your household electronic devices: lights, TV, DishWasher, Stove, Clothes Washer/Dryer, and even smart light bulbs. The home will be awash in RF.
There are many people now that are EHS (if you do not know what this means then do a search). Estimates are that 10% of the general population are EHS now. Researchers believe that this rate is increasing and soon will be 50%. Does that mean that all homes with Smart Meters and the symbiotic ZIGBEE network will be toxic to a major segment of the population and will decrease their level of health and enjoyment of life? There are studies that show RF Radiation has a detrimental effect on health especially in the fetus and young children. RF Radiation has been shown to cause cancer (see Cell phone brain cancer studies).
Privacy – Hackers will be able to find out so much about the lives of the residents of the house: how many people are living there, estimates on gender, estimates on age range. Marketing firms will be able to send advertising specifically to the target group. eg. if you have young children then you will have marketing specifically for young children. etc. Governmental security agencies will certainly be using this to spy on suspects. (good or bad?)
Security – Hackers will find ways of using your ZIGBEE system to get as much information from your house as possible. If they can steal a billion dollars from many banks (this is just in the news) then hacking the Smart Grid and your ZibBee house network should not be much of a problem. Scenario – Hacker turns off the power to the freezer while you are away for the weekend and all of your frozen food is now unfrozen. Hmmm, what to do?
Control – If all of your electronics are on the ZIGBEE network and you have some control over them, THEN agencies outside of your home will also have control over them. This is a 1984 scenario. Your air conditioning can be turned off when there is not enough electricity for everyone. Is this good or bad? The channel that you are watching on TV will be known by the ZIGBEE (maybe) and thus fed to a polling agency or marketing agency. You may not be able to turn on the clothes dryer at supper time because the power company tells the ZIGBEE unit to prevent use until 10 pm, for instance.
It is going to be very interesting to see how this plays out.
Check out the details of ZIGBEE (CLICK HERE).
Dr Mac Paterson gave a presentation in Kaleden BC on Saturday Feb 21, 2015. The presentation was attended by about 250 people.
The presentation is not available yet on video but hopefully it soon will be.
Dr Paterson is scheduled to give the presentation in Kelowna and Salmon Arm next month, so watch for the dates and locations.
Here are some of the parts of his presentation that I found interesting.
Dr Paterson has been involved in research all of his career and has many professional publications to his credit. He specialized in Molecular Oncology.
The Canadian Safety Code 6 is only concerned with the heating effects of radiation and nothing to do with the electrical effects on the human body. The human body is chemical and electrical in nature and even very low levels of microwave radiation impacts the body. Safety Code 6 allows 600 µW/cm² (microwatts per square cm) whereas it has been shown that the human body is sensitive to 0.1 µW/cm² , a factor of 6,000 times.
The experts that decided on the level of the Safety Code 6 were experts in the physics of electrical RF radiation and there were no experts who knew anything about the effect on the human body’s electrical functioning. This resulted in this huge discrepancy.
Some people that suffer from EHS (Electro Hyper Sensitivity) feel RF radiation at levels that are 0.5% of the levels allowed by Safety Code 6.
Dr Paterson estimates that about 25,000 people in BC suffer from some level of EHS; mild to severe. Also, other researchers estimate that 4% to 10% of all people in the world are EHS. There are estimates that 50% of all people will be EHS soon. One researcher says by 2017.
There are many studies (42 to date) that confirm the fact that the magnetic field created by high voltage (high tension) power lines does cause a significant increase in childhood leukemia.
Concerning the opt-out of Smart meters, Dr Paterson says that communities, and not individuals, should OPT-OUT.
Pulsed RF radiation has been shown to be 2.5 times more damaging to human health than clean sinusoidal 60 Hz power.
Computers that use the SMPS (switch mode power supply) create significant amounts of DE (dirty electricity) which is pulsed and may (does) cause health effects especially in EHS people.
Tobacco has been shown to have a 20 year lag time between smoking and the average time of the diagnosis of cancer. RF Radiation is thought to be similar and if so then the numbers of cancers due to RF Radiation will soon increase dramatically. This will crush the medial systems and the economy.
Is there a connection between cell phones and cancer? Here are 44 reasons to believe that cell phones can cause cancer.
Cell phones emit microwave radio-frequency radiation. Fact.
This radiation has the ability to penetrate our bodies. Fact.
Our governments do virtually nothing to protect us from these dangers. Fact.
And yet there is strong evidence and multiple peer reviewed studies that indicate that cell phones cause cancer and other diseases.
Take a look for yourself at these facts from The Telemedicine Reporter – a Library of Eclectic Medical Wisdom. Published 2015 Feb 10.
http://www.epatienthealthcare.com/2015/02/10/44-reasons-cell-phones-can-cause-cancer/#.VOEhfC7Bso3
Look at this list of 44 reasons, lots of studies, quite technical. And especially look at Reason 43. Cell Phone Radiation Cancer Time Bomb – the one with the graph that shows brain tumor cases could reach epidemic proportions within the next decade.
See the whole report on this – https://stopsmartmetersbc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Morgan-Addendum-G-Poster-108-How-Many-Brain-Tumors-v3-6-8-09-Compatibility-Mode-1.pdf
See full original article by Lloyd Burrell at ElectricSense
http://www.electricsense.com/8822/cell-phones-cause-cancer-fact/
The Section for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society (TEN) of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has now produced it’s final draft opinion that we reported on recently. It would have represented a giant step forward in the recognition of EHS (electromagnetic hypersensitivity) and the need in society to dramatically alter our approach to supporting sufferers of the condition.
However on the 21st January 2015, a Counter-Opinion was proposed and voted on before the EHS Opinion and the Counter Opinion was passed by plenary vote. That means that the good TEN 559 EHS Opinion was dismissed.
The Adams Counter-Opinion was voted on first and was passed 136 votes to 110 votes with 19 Abstentions. .
Read the summary attached. Note that Adams is very heavily connected to industry and is very much driven to prove that EHS is not a problem. Ted’s Rule #1 = “Follow the money”. He also promotes installation of Smart Meters and the Smart Grid. This is just another example of the wireless industry bull-dozing their way through the democratic process.
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/2015-01-20-eesc-final-opinion.asp
Also see this open letter by Susan Foster about the vote against recognizing EHS.
Here is an excellent review of the current status of the EMF problems: Smart Meters, WiFi, CellPhones, etc.
This is a must read.
http://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/smart-meters-not-so-smart/
Amy Worthington, a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation from Idaho, is an investigative journalist who has researched and written many articles on the topic of wireless radiation.
At six schools in Hamburg the digital age should find their way. City and school board now back row: The wireless network WLAN was too dangerous for the health of students.
Learning with Tablet: It will not give in Hamburg so soon. Too big are the concerns about the health of students.
HAMBURG
The Authority announced by the school after the summer holidays measures to equip the students three Hamburg district schools and three high schools each with tablet and notebook, are for the time being on ice. Reason is that the wireless Internet access terminals to be enabled by the wireless network WLAN. Both potential health consequences are unclear, and legal frameworks.
“Six schools replace board, textbooks, notebooks and pencils Laptop and Tablet in class,” it said in May in a statement presented by Senator school Ties Rabe. During the two-year project should thus up to 1,300 students, which is about 30 percent of children and adolescents participate in these schools.
Now the school board backtracked. “We are currently investigating whether there are data protection or other legal problems,” admitted a spokesman Peter Albrecht.
High waves had the project mainly beaten because of the non-party MPs citizenship Walter Scheuerl with two kids trying to torpedo the project requests in the citizenry and various reports. So would transmit data over the wireless local radio networks by means of radiating and receiving extremely high microwave frequencies.
In fact, some doctors criticized recently, the introduction of tablets, smartphones, and wireless media as teaching in schools as “an uncritical acceptance of progress hype”. In an open letter complain about 20 doctors from “Doctors Working Group Digital Media in Stuttgart”, that the comments made in science and medicine concerns the use of digital media in schools were not being met.
“The correlation of the increase of overwork, headaches, ADHD and mental illness with the growing use of digital media is worrying,” said Ulmer psychiatrist and brain researcher Prof. Manfred Spitzer. According to the state of science whose harmfulness was clear that stress could also lead to impaired concentration, in addition to sperm damage to DNA strand breaks and thus cancer. The manufacturer, as well as the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, would already warning of a body-hugging use the equipment and require minimum distances, so the doctors. Neither school board nor health authority of the Hanseatic city could respond to such warnings.
Dirk Petersen, environmental expert at Consumer Hamburg , relativized: “There is in our view no reliable information, that it is harmful.” For the radiation was simply too small, so the expert. Ellen Kruse, a spokeswoman for the AG electrosmog the BUND Hamburg, however, criticized: “There are a lot of neutral studies showing that Wi-Fi is very harmful.” She called independent experts who educate in schools. Especially the combined use of up to 30 students comprehensive classes is questionable, so Kruse. The World Health Organization warn that mobile phone could possibly be carcinogenic. “We are the precautionary principle,” she said. However, the Bund was not hostile to progress and plead for a wired internet access in schools.
In its requests to the Senate it was Scheuerl also the subject of privacy statements and whether the legal guardian, adult students as well as teachers they would be and what would happen if they would not sign. The school board admitted now, just to check this straight. Scheuerl said: “The Authority had previously not carefully prepared.” However, the use of WLAN is from his point of view in order if they would agree. “The school used for the Internet research is important, but it is also about information literacy,” said Scheuerl. A general education he also called on the educational and learning psychological consequences, liability risks, technical issues, and copyright issues and risks.
The Smart Meter Fight in California is not going well but there are some very credible people continuing to push the issues and I believe they will make gains in the near future. I hope.
We, in BC Canada must pay attention to what is going on in California. They are fighting the same battles as we are and we may learn something from their wins and losses.
See comments by JEROMY JOHNSON on his web site http://www.emfanalysis.com
Also, see the actions of the president of the CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission and a judge that have upheld the rights of the utility companies over the public.
http://www.emfanalysis.com/cpuc-testimony/
Also see this excellent article:
COMMENTS OF JEROMY JOHNSON ON PROPOSED DECISIONS OF COMMISSIONER MICHAEL PEEVEY AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE AMY YIP-KIKUGAWA
http://www.emfanalysis.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Comments-to-CPUC-November-2014.pdf
An excellent article that all of you should read. It is only 15 pages with some interesting diagrams. As Jeromy stated, it seems that the commissioner and law judge are living in an alternate universe.
Example of content of this article. New info for me at least. Something to follow up on.
Here is a FACEBOOK site with lots of information on the health problems related to RF Radiation or EMR.
When Thomas Edison began wiring New York City with a direct current electricity distribution system in the 1880s, he gave humankind the magic of electric light, heat, and power;
in the process, though, he inadvertently opened a Pandora’s Box of unimaginable illness and death.
Dirty Electricity (DE) tells the story of Dr. Samuel Milham, the scientist who first alerted the world about the frightening link between occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields and human disease.
Milham takes readers through his early years and education, following the twisting path that led to his discovery that most of the twentieth century diseases of civilization, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and suicide, are caused by electromagnetic field exposure.
In the second edition, he explains how electrical exposure does its damage, and how electricity is causing our current epidemics of asthma, diabetes and obesity.
Dr. Milham warns that because of the recent proliferation of radio frequency radiation from cell phones and towers, terrestrial antennas, Wi-Fi and Wi-max systems, broadband internet over power lines, and personal electronic equipment, we may be facing a looming epidemic of morbidity and mortality. In Dirty Electricity, he reveals the steps we must take, personally and as a society, to coexist with this marvelous but dangerous technology.
(I just copied the above from the Amazon web site)
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Wow, I just purchased Dirty Electricity and read it all in one reading. I found it engrossing and I think it will change my life. Here are some of the main nuggets of information that I have dug out of this great book:
Dirty Electricity exists on all 60 Hz power, mostly low amplitude but some extremely high and thus dangerous.
There is a a well proven relationship between Dirty Electricity and cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and suicide, Dr Milham details his detective work in finding first cancer clusters and then the Dirty Electricity that caused the cancers.
The power and communications industries do not want to know about Dr Milham’s findings and use their financial muscle to prevent him in many cases to fix the problems and then to publicize the findings. In public hearing the Industry brings in high paid “experts” to say that there is no problem. These expert either are stupid and do not know anything or quite smart for accepting daily fees of $1,500 for their work and false testimony. And, these fees are usually paid by the Power company who simply add the costs on to their operating costs which are paid for by the customers. A no win/no win for the citizen/consumer.
Dr Milham found cancer clusters in various schools and found the source of the Dirty Electricity that caused the cancers and showed the school management how to fix the problem. But in many cases the administration did not believe the science and thus did not fix the problem. And so it seems that more teachers, and students were exposed to Dirty Electricity and the resulting increase in chances of cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and suicide.
Dr Milham has worked closely with Stetzer Electric and promotes the use of their Dirty Electricity filters. This is just Dr Milham finding the DE problem and Stetzer providing a fix.
Note – Normal DE as measured by the Stetzer filters is 50 G/S units. Dr Milham has measured DE as high as 20,000 G/S units. And of course there were many health problems associated with these sites.
1 – Purchase (or Borrow) the book and read it cover to cover. I found it quite readable. And it is not that expensive – $15 or less. If you believe that Dr Milham is correct in his findings, then you will know what you have to do.
2 – Measure the DE – Purchase (or borrow) a Stetzerizer meter and measure the DE in your house and other work spaces. Test especially in areas where there might be lots of power transformers or near-by cell towers.
3 – Install DE Filters – If you have elevated Stetzer G/S reading, say 250 or more, then purchase 10 – 20 filters to eliminate most of the DE. This may cost $200-$300 but also may decrease your chances of cancer and related health problems. Note that there are other manufacturers of DE filters. Do your due diligence about what is best to get and go for it. Lots of stuff on the web.