CPUC: PG&E Smart Meters Stay Installed

A SECOND OPINION THE UTILITY COMPANY will make HUGE money on WIRELESS smart meters and if you study the details closely, there are NO ADVANTAGES for customers, only disadvantages. 1. UTILITY RATES are going up as soon as Smart Meters installation is completed. 2. Wireless smart meters do NOT give customers information they can use to lower their bills - that is a Utility Company fib. They only show past usage and getting past usage every day or at the end of the month is no difference. Other inexpensive meters that give real time usage (right-now readings) are infinitely better. Wireless smart meters require going on-line and having to analyze bar graphs of PAST information. 3. PRIVACY - The Utility Company will know what you do, when you do it and so will other commercial companies, police and burglars that hack wireless information to know which days and times they can comfortably enter your home. 4. SECURITY - Wireless simply cannot achieve the security of wired systems. 5. HEALTH PROBLEMS - At the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Nov 18, a dozen world renowned scientists reported THEIR TESTS found small amounts of pulsed signal radiation (the kind coming from wireless smart meters) damaging cells, breaking DNA chains and breaking the blood / brain barrier (it allows things to reach your brain that your brain is normally protected from). This trumps, replaces and disproves the INDUSTRY "Scientists" that told us they cannot find any damage. When honest qualified people tell us and show us they found our wallet, it doesn't matter how many others said they couldn't find it. WIRELESS smart meters are worse than other wireless devices because: 1. We cannot shut them off. 2. They run all night while we and our children need quiet "Electric time" for our bodies to recover and children's bodies to recover, grow and develop. 3. All other wireless devices are optional, but wireless smart meters are being FORCED onto our homes. The Utility Company will save millions of dollars eliminating jobs of thousands of meter readers, and none of those savings will be shared with customers. The Utility Company will also save millions of dollars by not paying for a shielded cable infrastructure to safely carry utility signals and shield people, pets, animals, birds and bees from the radiation.
— December 20, 2010 2:46 a.m.

SDG&E Leading Nation in Smart Grid Rollout, Like It or Not

LOTS OF FALSE INFORMATION FROM SAN DIEGO GAS. 1. Customer information from Smart Meters is less effective and less accessible than a magnet on your refrigerator with energy costs of different appliances and at different hours, etc. In order to even attempt to analyze the so-called "Smart Meter" information by going on line, people would have to spend thousands of dollars to purchase all new appliances that are wirelessly & digitally compatible with these new and radiation emitting WIRELESS METERS. Once SDG has information on what hours we use the most power, they will raise rates during those times and 99% of our bills will increase, not decrease as SDG pretends. 2. 1000's of skilled jobs will be lost and some will be replaced with phone center operators that will read a script to frustrated and dissatisfied customers. Reduction of trained people in the field and reduction of human customer contact is extremely dangerous as the deaths in San Bruno, California confirm where Smart Meters were installed. 3. The Smart GRID involves moving energy from region to region as needed. It does NOT require dangerous radiation emitting WIRELESS METERS on homes. 4. There are 53 Peer Reviewed Scientific Studies that show that even low levels of RF radiation, which comes from these meters, are extremely dangerous to people, particularly children. These electronic radiation-emitting meters are going 24 hours per day, so there is no recovery time for adults to rejuvenate from the previous day. For children, the night time sleeping hours are when their bodies are sending millions of specific electronic signals from the brain to cells and amongst cells for proper growth and development of their bodies, organs and systems. They do not need electronic interference or electronic "noise" while they sleep. Because the electronic interference is invisible does not make it any less harmful. 5. If something is 99.999% sure, Science does not say it is "Proven." That is how the $3.7 Trillion telecommunication industry says no "Proof" of danger. But 99.999% is sufficient for you and I to not allow our children and families to be subjected to it unnecessarily. 6. 20 cities and counties have requested stopping the installation of Smart Meters. Each has done their own research and come to the same conclusion. 7. So-called Smart Meters transmit to, receive from, and repeat the other meter's signals in your community. SDG calls it a "MESH NETWORK." The millions of repeated and redundant signals look like a dense window screen, but three-dimensional and invisible, and YOU AND I AND OUR CHILDREN WILL BE IN IT 24 HOURS PER DAY. This saves SDG&E the cost of sending the signals through shielded cables. WIRE THE METERS AND SEND THE SIGNALS THROUGH SHIELDED CABLES! Watch this short video on wireless radiation - it might save your kid's life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsf1ujR4pkU
— October 20, 2010 1:14 a.m.

Moth Captured

THE CDFA LIGHT BROWN APPLE MOTH (LBAM) PROGRAM IS A FRAUD FOR MONEY. Over the last 4 years, scientists have had time to conclude their research: 1. The moth is not dangerous to crops in California any more than thousands of other moths & insects that live in California. 2. LBAM has caused no damage in California, even though the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) falsely reported damage to the media for three years now and unfortunately decent trusting people innocently repeat the false messages of danger. 3. CDFA top management do this program for about $100 Million of our taxpayer dollars every year for their agency & then they deliver the $$ to privileged insiders at large chemical corporations in the form of contracts for unnecessary pesticides. 4. CDFA intends to stretch the program to decades, not just the seven years that they advertise. 5. The moth is not even suited to Bonsall, only a few counties along the Northern California coast and there it is living nicely and not damaging anything. 6. The quarantines and inspections and use of expensive pesticides forced onto farmers is the real problem while CDFA fakes the threat to keep the program (and $$) going. 7. Check with the top Agriculture Scientists at UC Davis. They know the truth, but they don't yet have the political clout to get these top management guys at CDFA put in prison for what they are doing. 8. If you are interested, download Chapter #3 "Agricultural / Horticultural Resources and Economics" on the DRAFT EIR for the Light Brown Apple Moth Program on the CDFA website or at http://www.lbamspray.com/ and read in Chapter #3, page 3-20, lines 5,6 and page 3-21, lines 3,4 below table 3-16. You will see that CDFA actually admits that all the LBAM crop damage reports that they have delivered to the media for three years now were false. "NO CROP DAMAGE" in California, by the Light Brown Apple Moth. The reason CDFA puts the truth in the Draft EIR is because a judge will likely review it, but judges don't review media articles so CDFA continues to lie to the public and then unfortunately unknowing decent people hear the lies and further spread those lies. Go visit Santa Cruz and San Francisco counties where LBAM populations are large. But that is in Entomology terms. Most people have never even seen one. They are barely one-quarter inch long. If they weren't in the news, no one would even know they are in California. They look and act identically to other tortricidae moths that are native to California and that is why LBAM is nearly a non-issue …but not for CDFA to fake an emergency and steal our $$.
— March 11, 2010 10:40 p.m.