http://www.amazon.com/U-N-Agenda-21-Environmental-ebook/dp/B009WC6JXO/ref=sr_1_1_title_1_kin?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369076205&sr=1-1&keywords=UN+Agenda+21%3A+Environmental+Piracy
Last
time I wrote about U.N. Agenda 21 was on January 29 this year when the Smart
Meter bill, SB 797, introduced in the Virginia Senate by Senator Thomas A.
Garrett, was tabled indefinitely, a polite way of saying, the bill had no
chance of passing.
This
bill would have prohibited any utility company from installing an advanced metering system (Smart Meter) on
private property or requiring the installation of one unless the customer
requested it. If the utility had already installed a Smart Meter, they would
have been required to replace it with an analog meter if the customer demanded
it. If the customer refused the advanced meter (Smart Meter), the utility
company would not have been allowed to charge a penalty or a higher rate.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/52752Recently, Dominion Power in Virginia has changed its policy on Smart Meters somewhat. http://southsidevirginiateapartypatriots.com/?p=772
“The Non-Communicating meters are Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) or Smart Meters with both the two-way communications and data storage features disabled, the only recording features retained are the minimum needed for monthly billing. Because the Non-Communicating Meters’ remote communication abilities have been disabled, a Company representative will manually read the meter. For the Interim Non-Communicating Meter Option, the Company will not assess a separate charge to install and use a Non-Communicating Meter. The Company plans to propose a charge for the Non-Communicating Meter Option, which will be subject to approval by the State Corporation Commission of Virginia.”
Smart
Meters are replacing globally the traditional meters for electricity, gas, and
water. http://www.fwrj.com/techarticles/0811%20tech1.pdf
They
are installed in developed nations around the globe as part of the effort to
replace the old patchwork grid with the Smart Grid. Why this intense rush to
modernize? Smart Meters are supposed to save consumers money but, many
disgruntled citizens filed a class-action law suit in California, claiming that
their bills have increased many fold and consumption readings are inaccurate. It
is arguable that the grid represents progress in delivery or that it improves
the quality of life. During major storms, those on the smart grid lost power, while
those on old patchwork systems with cables buried underground kept their power
on.
The
Smart Meter is a propaganda device to benefit utility companies, the electronic
industry, and the global government. Sold as an electricity-, money-, and earth-saving
device, smart meters cost hundreds of billions of dollars in government
subsidies and utility companies money, costs that are passed on to hapless
consumers in the form of higher energy prices. Utilities are monopolies and as
such, the interests of consumers are not a priority. The cost of the new Smart
Grid will be passed on to consumers as well.
According
to the Energy Information Administration, the average consumer would save
$80-$180 per year once the grid is completed. The Department of Energy claims
15% reduction in annual energy consumption in areas where smart meters were
installed.
“Variable
pricing” and “differentiated pricing” schemes will be adopted, based on
“off-peak” hours when power demands are lower. When power demand is higher,
customers will find themselves voluntarily and involuntarily sweltering or
freezing, as power will be cut off from a remote location in order to reduce
the high cost of additional power generation and storage that utilities would
incur.
Rob
States, engineer and expert, explained that changing power use from peak to
off-peak would only save $40 per year, yet a Smart Meter installation cost $500.
Adopting “differentiated pricing” schemes would only save customers money after
12 years when the Smart Meter is paid off.
The
Public Utilities in Nevada told a newspaper that “Smart Meters would only slow
the rate of increase of energy prices paid by consumers.”
Because
Smart Meters operate like a cell phone, they can connect to any type of
wireless devices with a built-in Wi-Fi capacity such as washing machines,
computers, ovens, TVs, stereos, gym equipment, medical devices, or any other
appliance. Such an interactive system is called HAN (Home-Area Network). It is
conceivable that in the next five years all new appliances could have RF
capability.
A
HAN can be connected to a home energy management system that can program anything
to turn on or turn off based on total energy consumption and pricing schemes.
GE, at the forefront of this helpful technology/invasion of
privacy/spying/snooping developed Nucleus for its Brillion line of appliances
that can be connected to a HAN.
Utilities
can sell your home’s data to a third party and any potential hackers can
capture the same with a hand-held device in the race for profits or other
nefarious uses. The “complex skilled labor” needed to secure the Smart Grid
from hackers and staying ahead will cost additional tens of billions of
dollars, passed on to consumers in higher electric bills.
Adding
insult to injury, FCC, a non-medical organization set limits of acceptable RF
exposure back in 1992 and has not modified them since then in spite of the
medical research developed in the last ten years alone.
The
Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) was approved by Congress on
December 18, 2007 and signed into law the next day. Title XIII in EISA gave
full power to the Department of Energy to legislate, advise, administer, and
support the modernization of our country’s electrical grid. By 2010, $16
billion had been spent worldwide to install smart meters. In the next twenty
years, it is estimated that $2 trillion will be spent worldwide on smart grid
technology. Our government has subsidized utilities so far with at least $10
billion to interface power plants, substations, transformers, transmission
lines, and home wiring. The
Obama administration provided $1 billion in matching funds in the 2009 stimulus
bill. More than twenty million smart meters have been installed in the U.S. so
far. http://www.w4ar.com/SmartMetersReport.pdf
Utilities
are more than eager to install smart meters because they become the recipients
of Smart Grid grants and generous tax breaks. Additionally, the digital meters
will no longer require meter readers, saving labor and transportation costs.
Three entities have jurisdiction
over the Smart Grid - the Department of Energy, the Federal Communications
Commission, and state public utility commissions. None of these three groups was tasked with privacy,
security, and hacking issues.
“According
to George W. Arnold, the National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability
at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), there are over
twenty different organizations currently working on developing acceptable
technological standards for Smart Grid applications.” Grids all over the world
will eventually be interfaced. Homeland Security and Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) have also introduced bills to centralize policy management
with their departments. (Smart Meters Report)
Health
issues associated with Smart Meters include chest pain, headaches, migraines,
insomnia, sleep disruption, vertigo, fainting, memory loss, lack of
concentration, chronic fatigue, nausea, anxiety, tinnitus, skin tingling, heavy
breathing, hypersensitivity, and hot skin.
According
to the Smart Meters Report, the visual equivalent of Smart Meters is strobe
lights which can cause seizures at pulse rates above ten per second, a rate
frequently surpassed by Smart Meters. Strobe lights can be turned off while
Smart Meters transmit non-stop 24/7.
Utility
customers with Smart Meters have become lab rats in an ongoing medical
experiment.
On
August 31, 2007, The Bioinitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based
Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields was published. Breast cancer, leukemia, other cancers,
neurological disorders, immune system dysfunction, DNA modification, electrical
heart palpitation were associated with RF. The World Health Organization classified
RF emissions in 2011 as a Class 2B carcinogen.
A
conference of international experts gathered in Seletun, Norway to discuss the
biological effects of ELF and RF on humans from wireless communications and
electric power technology. Seven
scientists published the “Seletun Scientific Statement” in the medical journal,
Reviews on Environmental Health in
2010, supporting the findings of the Bioinitiative Report, calling on global defense
from EMF pollution. http://sagereports.com/smart-meter-rf/?page_id=382
How
expensive and accurate are the old meters? The general manager for a rural
electric co-op covering five counties explained to me that contract meter
readers on foot get paid approximately 80 cents to read an old, traditional
meter, for a total of $10 per year. And they are using their own cars and gas.
We can assume less cost in urban areas due to the proximity of meters.
“Electromechanical meters installed in the late 1940s are still functioning and
are accurate. Most have zero maintenance. Power companies are selling
electromechanical meters for $2 each, which are nearly new, because they are
surplus equipment to the power companies switching to smart meters.”
On
the other hand, the average life of a smart meter is about 10 years or less due
to baking in the sun, exposure to the elements and to the overheating of the
meter itself. The electronic displays are the most common part to fail. A
laptop computer can read the count sometimes; otherwise the reading is
estimated in order to preset it on the replaced meter. The cheapest smart meter
cost $135 per unit, plus the installation cost of at least $30 per hour, a car,
electrical training, equipment training and other materials, pension, and
healthcare benefits.
How expensive is to read a smart
meter? “It depends on the cost of the radios, data plans, computer data
centers, and antennas. A smart meter can be read through a carrier signal sent
up and down power lines. However, many of the power company’s very expensive
capacitor banks will have to be replaced (hundred thousand each) to allow the
carrier signals to go down the power lines.
Most smart meters will be read by a cell phone type radio built into the
meter.”
Most
recently, Stop Smart Meters UK gave a presentation to the British MP and the UK
government made the announcement on May 10, 2013 that “smart meter
installations throughout the country will be delayed by more than a year.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dVoJ6fgwRdU&list=PLmW2ABZNt38PaGRSgDvJNmH9D_aJVt2yr
Dr. Liz Evans explained the negative health effects and spoke about the existence of hundreds of studies showing "evidence of harm could be acute", including possible "chronic effects from long term exposure such as cancer, infertility, dementia, genetic damage, immune system dysfunction and damage to fetuses. IT systems engineer, Mike Mitcham, added newly uncovered information about the dangers of hacking vulnerabilities and privacy violations caused by the new meters installations.”
http://takebackyourpower.net/british-mps-told-of-smart-meter-risks-uk-rollout-delayed-by-year)
The
global cabal has decided that we need the Smart Grid and the huge profits
derived from the installation of Smart Meters, regardless of the economic,
privacy, and health costs. The powerful environmentalists have an even more “compelling”
excuse to cut off our electricity consumption – we must save the planet at all
costs from human destruction brought on by the “evil” capitalism.
NOTE
An
extensive reading list, compiled by the Smart Meters Report, can be found at
the following website on page 45. http://www.w4ar.com/SmartMetersReport.pdf
http://www.abiresearch.com/press/1688-Smart+Grid+Spending+Will+Top+%2445+Billion+by+2015
http://205.254.135.7/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=108&t=3
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/obama-announces-stimulus-funding-for-the-smart-grid.ars
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2011/08/10/chinas-smart-meter-boom-will-lead-1b-installations-2020
http://www.daggerpress.com/2012/03/16/del-glass-smart-meters-are-about-utility-corporations- makingmore-money-and-the-citizens-of-maryland-paying-more-for-electricity-and-losing-their-privacy/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124050416142448555.html
http://nevadanewsandviews.com/archives/15479
http://electricsense.com/1256/smart-meters-electromagnetic-radiation-money-and-your-health/
http://www.environmental-expert.com/news/do-smart-meters-really-change-energy-use-254972
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/new-smart-meters-energy-use-put-privacy
http://stopsmartmeters.org/frequently-asked-questions/
http://energy.aol.com/2011/08/05/smart-grid-privacy-and-security-risks-loom-for-agencies/
http://stopsmartmeters.org/2012/03/09/a-primer-on-the-fcc-guidelines-for-the-smart-meter-age/
http://sagereports.com/smart-meter-rf/?page_id=188
http://stopsmartmeters.org/frequently-asked-questions/radio-frequency-radiation-issues/
http://betanews.com/2011/05/31/mobile-phones-are-as-cancerous-as-hpv-engine-exhaust-says-who/
http://www.bioinitiative.org/freeaccess/report/docs/report.pdf
http://www.committeetobridgethegap.org/pdf/110212_RFrad_comments.pdf
http://www.emfbioeffects.org/report.html
http://ec.europa.eu/research/environment/pdf/env_health_projects/electromagnetic_fields/e-reflex.pdf
http://www.weepinitiative.org/talkingtoyourdoctor.pdf
http://www.dirtyelectricity.ca/electrical_hypersensitivity.htm
http://www.skepdic.com/electrosensitives.html
http://smartmeterhelp.com/HealthSymptoms.cfm
http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/the-seletun-statement/
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57369888/pg-e-can-charge-customers-to-nix-smartmeters/
http://www.lvrj.com/business/nevada-puc-approves-smart-meter-opt-out-plan-140941433.html
http://www.lessemf.com/faq-shie.html#smart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJzBeUeXb0Q
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