Attached is an announcement that the BCUC is asking for input    [ http://bcuc.com/Documents/MiscDocs/2015/09-08-2015_BCUC_StakeholderConsultationRequest.pdf] regarding the timeliness of their responses, etc. They are asking for responses from those who have been interveners in applications such as the legacy fee review or the FortisBC Smart meter hearing. There seems to be no interest in asking … Continue reading 2015-09-09 Consumer Protection Act doesn’t apply to smart meters or the bases!! →

  Some had trouble with the link to the CHEK news article about the fire in Langford in last night’s update. Try this if you did: http://www.cheknews.ca/fire-sooke-lake-road-10519/     As a result of the Paris Appeal Congress in May,  a major call for the Precautionary Principle while more research is done re. EHS. Please share … Continue reading 2015-09-04 A new call for the precautionary principle and for research on EHS →

1) Is the Meter Base a Consumer Product?  Or Not?  As we’ve been told, we own the meter base which is being abused and misused by having a smart meter put into it. Years ago when I wrote to the Consumer Affairs Dept (federal) about the dangers posed by the smart meters, I was told … Continue reading 2015-09-02 Provincial consumer protection can’t oversee smart meter safety →

Below, in the “letters” section, is the latest from BCUC regarding my official request for them to do their job with regard to the safety of the smart meters.  I included the earlier communications (minus the photos) for those who might have missed that update.  My request for a moratorium on installation of the smart … Continue reading 2015-09-01 BCUC needs months to investigate safety complaint →

2015-09-01 – BCUC needs months to investigate safety complaint 2015-09-02 – Provincial consumer protection can’t oversee smart meter safety 2015-09-03 – ITRON has a solar meter 2015-09-04 – A new call for the precautionary principle and for research on EHS 2015-09-05  – More ways to get our data 2015-09-06 – WHO reportedly will announce recognition … Continue reading NEWSLETTERS 2015-09 SEP →

  Katie Singer, author of “Electronic Silent Spring” has a monthly newsletter to which you may wish to subscribe. Her current newsletter addresses cell towers, and provides, among other things, instances where cell towers that have crashed or caught fire. http://www.electronicsilentspring.com/august-2015-newsletter/   Earlier this week President Obama spoke about the benefits of the smart meter … Continue reading 2015-08-27 Locations of collectors in BC →

  Non-smeter. Google has devised a wifi modem with 13 antennae that has been designed to go on the desk right at head level!! http://www.wired.com/2015/08/google-onhub-wi-fi-router/   More non-smeter  (sorry, not much smeter news today).  Teachers and children are being exposed to high levels of RF from industrial level wifi modems all day every school day, … Continue reading 2015-08-23 Google has wifi modem with 13 antennae →

  As we’ve seen from an insurance adjuster in Calif. is fully aware that smart meter fires are happening. In situations in BC we know that Hydro has paid for repairs on homes and, most likely, has been sued by or reimbursed an insurer under threat of suit for claims paid. Yet the insurance industry … Continue reading 2015-07-31 Insurance companies have no obligation to notify re. dangerous device →

Several people have written to BCUC complaining about the fire issue and received this form letter in response from Patrick Wruck:  Thank you for your follow-up email to the BC Utilities Commission regarding your concerns about smart meter safety.   Commission staff are in receipt of a complaint regarding smart meter safety and we are … Continue reading 2015-07-28 Special update — Some evidence of fires sent to BCUC. →

  I have been communicating with an insurance adjuster in the US who had reported that he had seen many smart meter fires. When I told him that insurers in BC are refusing to share insurance reports with victims, while increasing premiums and, I suspect, recovering paid claims from BC Hydro and/or ITRON, he said … Continue reading 2015-07-19 Insurance adjuster unable to examine smart meters →