Choice is at the heart of free will and health is at the heart of life, but neither may count for much with the coming of “smart meters,” the wireless devices that use electromagnetic frequency (EMF) to monitor our electrical consumption.
B.C. citizens are waking up to the fact that this spring we may see these meters attached to our very homes — whether we like it or not, yet most of us have never even heard of them. Transmitting from the walls of our homes, smart meters will effectively blanket entire neighborhoods with electromagnetic radiation every day, all day 24/7/365 forever. This represents an entirely new source of continuous, involuntary radio frequency saturation of the same type as cell phones and cell towers. Our money has been allocated, plans made, meters ordered — the last thing is to notify us about what is planned for our neighbourhoods, our homes, our very bodies!
Ontario has already initiated a Smart Meter system, and according to Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak, of that province, the program should be halted immediately, because it’s not helping lower hydro bills or convincing consumers to switch their heavy electricity use to late at night.
Smart meters do not save energy themselves, rather they are designed to encourage us to save energy by monitoring our electricity usage, and punishing us with increased rates when we use electricity at times when energy companies could make more profit selling it elsewhere.
Andrea Horwath, leader of Ontario’s New Democrats, says that smart meters have actually raised rates for 80 per cent of consumers and aren’t producing any conservation gains for Ontario.
There are no benefits here for me or you, and the risks to health do not seem at all worth the risks to pocketbook (or is it visa-versa?). I encourage you to research “smart meter, health” online before agreeing to this scheme.
Robert Yetter
Kaslo