According to Una St. Clair of Citizens for Safe Technology, smart meters employ radio frequency radiation to send signals wirelessly 24/7. This is cause for deep concern due to negative health impacts, including headaches, dizziness, sleep problems, tinnitus and nausea. There are also reports of pets being severely affected.

Smart meters are already installed in certain areas of Canada, and rollout is scheduled to start in British Columbia in spring/summer 2011. Check out these resources and decide for yourself whether smart meters are a smart idea:
Citizens for Safe Technology, www.citizensforsafetechnology.org. This organization empowers the public to protect children and youth from ­unsafe wireless technologies. Forty ­reports document biological effects or associations of radiofrequency radiation at low intensities, many of them adverse or undesirable.

Stop Smart Meters! www.stopsmartmeters.org. Here you find the latest news on what jurisdictions have done to stop smart meters. The site reports that the city of Capitol on February 11, 2011, became the seventh local government in California to criminalize the installation of smart meters, along with Marin, Santa Cruz, and Mendocino Counties and the cities of Fairfax, Watsonville and Rio Dell.

EMF Safety Network, www.emfsafetynetwork.org, features information on the wireless radiation from smart meters. The site dedicates a page of links to global EMF websites and to media reports, including "Smart Meter Shock: electrical hazards found in 3500 homes" (Australia), as well as links to EMF concerns around the world, including "European Environmental Agency advises the precautionary principle for wi-fi" and "German Government advises against wi-fi."

www.smartmeters.com is a comprehensive online source for news and views surrounding the smart energy ­industry.  --HANS Staff

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