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March 2013 Newsletter
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Dear Friends:  

 

The City of Sebastopol joined more than a dozen other local jurisdictions in California and made Smart Meter installations illegal.  PG&E's response was to threaten a lawsuit, refuse service, including marking underground gas lines, and halting new commercial construction work. 

 

The Sebastopol city manager met with PG&E and for now the city has suspended the $500 fine, but the ordinance stands.  Residents can still call the police to report an installer. 

 

After PG&E met with the city they went to the Press Democrat. (See letter to the Press democrat below.) So far, it appears PG&E has stopped the deployment on residences in town, however we are finding more Smart Meters on commercial property.

Meanwhile, we are still waiting for the CPUC judge to rule on the legality of charging fees to people with medical conditions who want to keep the analog meter, and for an opportunity to file briefs on community wide Smart Meter opt-out. 

Also the CPUC judge has proposed fining PG&E $390,000 (paid to the State) for spying on our groups.  More on that later.  
 
Gratefully,  

Sandi  
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Letter to the Press Democrat: PG&E Smart Meters vs. Sebastopol  

PG&E met with the Press Democrat (PD) editorial board last week regarding Sebastopol's ban on Smart Meters. Following that meeting the PD printed two misinformed editorials, both heavy handed against Sebastopol.

 

Chris Coursey in "Feeling Sorry for Goliath" writes, "Meter readers are threatened with citations and fines for doing their jobs." This is wrong. Only installers have been warned not to deploy Smart Meters in Sebastopol. Meter readers love Sebastopol because they still have a job.

 

Coursey writes, "Sebastopol seems to be getting pulled around by the nose by a small group of anti-technology folks known as the Electromagnetic Field Safety Network." Our name is the EMF Safety Network and we are not anti-technology. We advocate the use of precaution with electromagnetic fields (EMF's) and radiofrequency radiation (RF) (wireless), and advocate corded and wired alternatives to protect public health and the environment. Our work is based on decades of science.

 

According to Coursey 10% of Sebastopol has opted out of Smart Meters. That means there are hundreds of people in Sebastopol that are concerned enough about Smart Meter hazards to pay PG&E's extortion fees not to have them.

Coursey states the World Health Organization (WHO) says there's no evidence of harm. Wrong again. In May of 2011 the International Agency for Research on Cancer, an arm of the WHO, classified wireless as a 2b carcinogen, same as DDT and lead.... Read MORE  

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Americans Beware: Nationwide Violations of FCC Radiation Limits at Wireless Antenna Sites 

The EMRadiation Policy Institute (EMRPI):  US workers and families are at risk of overexposure to RF at hazardous levels.  Hundreds of wireless industry-operated antenna sites from Maine to California have been tested by EMRPI and found to be in gross violation - up to and in excess of 600% - of the FCC's public exposure limits. These sites include rooftops as well as locations where the general public, including children, can gain access, and where workers are on the job.  

 

Wireless Radiation Can Harm Health.

 

Public health is threatened by wireless radiation exposure at current FCC lawful limits as they are among the least protective in the world.  FCC safety limits do not acknowledge current science, nor the 2011 World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer's classification of wireless radiation as a 2B carcinogen.  The FCC does not even enforce its own inadequate radiation limits.

 

FCC Fails to Enforce Its Own Wireless Radiation Limits...

 

Read MORE and see video  

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On December 18, 2012 a PG&E meter reader whistleblower tells the California Public Utilities Commission judge that:

  • Smart Meters CAUSE FIRES.
  • PG&E is covering up the Smart Meter fire risk.
  • PG&E fired him because he was unwilling to keep quiet.
  • Smart Meter deployment cost not 2.2 billion, but ten billion dollars.
  • Smart Meter deployment is illegal because it is a crime of fraud against the consumers of California.
  • No one does gas surveys but the meter readers.  
  • THANKS TO EON:  Watch the video  
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Maryland Smart Meter Awareness posted video testimony from Garic Schoen who experienced "adverse health effects following a Smart Meter installation, as documented by his doctor and physical therapist. Upon removal, those adverse health effects stopped."  Watch the video   
 
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DONATIONS  

Donations can be sent online through Paypal, or by sending a check to EMF Safety Network.  PO Box 1016, Sebastopol CA 95473.  Click here to donate

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EMF Safety Network Contact Information
p: 707-824-0824
e:  emfsafe@sonic.net 
w: www.emfsafetynetwork.org

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