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• Susan Brinchman(Sunday, September 25 11 09:25 pm EDT)

  I am so glad to see this site! Plse feel free to go to www.electrosmogprevention.org and www.smartmeterdangers.org to find resources and info. Love your site! Let's collaborate! We have two board members in Orange County. Let's talk!
  
  Susan Brinchman,
  Founder / Director Center for Electrosmog Prevention (CEP)
  Southern Californians Against Smart Meters (SCASM)
  American Coalition Against Smart Meters
  Smart Meter Dangers www.smartmeterdangers.org
  Center for School Mold Help (national 501c3 nonprofit) www.schoolmoldhelp.org
  Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/No2SmartMeters;
  Educational Speaker's Packet: Reasons to Say No to Smart Meters
  P.O. Box 655
  La Mesa, CA, 91944-0655
  email director@electrosmogprevention.org

• Peri McMillan(Tuesday, September 27 11 02:05 pm EDT)

  I'm quite concerned about these so-called smart meters and want to know how exactly you're able to tell whether one has been installed on your property. Do they all say "Smart Meter" or how do you know?

• Administrator(Wednesday, September 28 11 04:00 pm EDT)

  A picture of a Smart Meter is in the banner. It has digital readouts instead of dials.
  
  It appears that even though you get on Southern California Edison's Delay List, post signs and mail certified letters, if you do not have the analog meter secured in some way then then installation will take place.
  
  I am sorry to say that SCE and the CPUC are not honoring their own program.

• Maria(Thursday, September 29 11 03:04 pm EDT)

  Put locks on your gates as well as securing your meter!
  Corix tech, SCE contactor to install Smart Meters, was in my neighborhood this week. I did not answer my door when he rang just to see what he would do. To my surprise, even though I am on the SM delay list, he still tried to go through my gates so he could install the Smart Meter. Fortunately I had locks on my gates. My neighbor is also on the delay list. Corix tech tried to get to his meter but could not because my neighbor has a dog. The Corix tech continued down my block & each gate he found unlocked he went in & installed a Smart Meter.
  I spoke to a CPUC consumer affairs representive. Rep. stated that customers on the SM delay list can not be forced to have SM installed & SCE-Corix have no right to go on their property to install them. Importantly he said the Smart Meter delay list allows customers to delay installation of Smart meters "UNTIL" the CPUC decides on an Opt-out program. So, if you know of anyone in which a Corix tech. tried to force them to install a SM or if they had a SM installed at their home, even though they were on a SM delay list, call the CPUC consumer affairs & ask for the person that incharge of Smart Meter problems or go the CPUC website & file a complaint. SCE claims problems with customers are very few. So lets flood the CPUC with complaints & they will see that SCE is circumventing & not complying with CPUC ruliings!

• Chris Felicijan(Thursday, September 29 11 04:01 pm EDT)

  I'm interested in working to get the information out in the OC. I'm with the Center for Electrosmog Prevention. Please email me.

• Paul Burke(Thursday, September 29 11 04:22 pm EDT)

  What about a nationwide Class Action Lawsuit against the entire industry to remove all smart meters in America and new laws on the books to protect our bio energetic health with safe Energy Medicine!

• Jeanne Goodin(Saturday, October 01 11 09:33 am EDT)

  It's wonderful to see that citizens are becoming involved in alerting their family, neighbors and friends to the dangers
  of the SMART METER! The Energy Policy Act of 2005 can be found at http:www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-109hr6enr/ df/ BILLS-109hr6enr.pdf. Another place to find the bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.00006: (click on Text of Legislation). The entire bill is 550 pages of very fine print. This federal law DOES NOT MANDATE THE UTILITIES TO INSTALL SMART METERS IN HOMES. IT ONLY MANDATES THE UTILITIES TO "OFFER" THEM and to INSTALL THEM "UPON CUSTOMER REQUEST". This is still the land of the FREE and ONLY with citizens asking questions, participating in this endeavor and NOT STOPPING their questions and comments will THE SMART METER issue be resolved. We MUST continue our involvement! My "thank yous" to the leaders of this endeavor for their steadfastness, courage to take a stand, the many hours researching SMART METERS and being "Paul Reveres"! Let's ALL CALL,and WRITE Edison our thoughts on this issue.

• Jeanne Goodin(Saturday, October 01 11 10:01 am EDT)

  Thank you to the courageous leaders of this endeavor! SMART
  METERS are a danger to our health and our privacy. There are
  studies now that corroborate our concerns.
  The Energy Policy Act of 2005 at http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BillS S
  -109hr6enr/ df BILLS-1096enr.pdf. The entire bill is 550 pages
  of very fine print. Here is another place to find the bill
  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.g.00006: (click
  on Text of Legislation). The federal law DOES NOT mandate the
  utilities to install smart meters in homes. It ONLY mandates
  the utilities to "OFFER" THEM AND TO INSTALL THEM "UPON
  CUSTOMER REQUEST".
  Concerned citizens are outraged that installers of SM are coming
  into their property without their knowledge or approval! We are
  still FREE CITIZENS, and we live in a FREE REPUBLIC whose
  representatives, elected by us, are to respond to us! So
  continue your phoning, letter writing to your leaders and to
  Edison that SM are not our desire and that analog
  meters have worked for us in the past and we want them re-
  installed.
  Its wonderful observing that we still have Paul Reveres in
  our midst.

• Charyl Zehfus(Saturday, October 01 11 01:45 pm EDT)

  Welcome to the fight! Here in Wisconsin, our numbers are small, but we are working on public awareness, a step at a time.
  It is up hill, since most people have not heard there is a problem with smart meters, and the utilities are going very slowly with the stages of implementation, with the goal of charging us more depending upon what time we need to use energy. (THIS is horrible for the elderly or disabled, who will have to try to "interact" with their energy use online and figure out what to do about it.)
  
  Anyhow, bless you all for your work.

• maria(Saturday, October 01 11 02:32 pm EDT)

  SCE has turned a deaf ear to our calls & letters. Since the CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission) has authority over SCE regarding the SM, flood the CPUC with calls or file complaints at their website. Show the CPUC that SCE is circumventing & not complying to the CPUC rulings.

• Cindy(Sunday, October 02 11 12:56 pm EDT)

  Corix tried to come and install my meter yesterday and I refused. I did not know that I need to do all of the delay installation stuff. The technician was not going to leave until he got a reason for my refusal, so I just walked away and locked the door. He told me that I was going to have to install it anyway because of article or title 16 when I bought my house? Has anyone read about that?

• Baltar(Sunday, October 02 11 01:25 pm EDT)

  If Wireless Radiation has no ill effects then how come?
  
  
  
  Electro-Sensitivity (ES)
  
  Electro-sensitive people suffer from a variety of symptoms in close vicinity to electromagnetic fields, Wi-fi, mobiles, DECT phones, baby monitors, certain light sources etc: Headaches, Speech problems, dizziness, chest palpations, tinnitus, pressure in the ears. sweating at night. skin irritations, pins and needles in the hands in the mornings, short-term memory loss, nauseas, joint aches and pressures at the back of the head as well as in the sinus or forehead area.
  
  Even if you are not ES yet, it is beneficial to turn off your Wifi over night, as well as to ban electrical items, your cordless phones and mobiles from your bedroom. You will sleep much better and are less likely to have an interrupted sleep pattern. Usually waking around 4 am.
  
  Another simple test is to stop carrying your mobile on your body (chest or trouser pockets). in many cases people experience the so-called “phantom text messages”. This describes a situation where every now and then you think you had a text message, when keeping the phone in your pockets, but when you checked there was no message. Some even suffer from heart palpitations. If that is case, just try for a while to carry your mobile in a bag or switch it off, while you have it in your pocket. ( Phone Logging onto mast )
  
  If you want to find out more:
  es-uk.info/
  electromagneticman.co.uk/
  magdahavas.com (Canadian website)
  mobilewise com
  electromagnetichealth.org/audio-archives-and-more/
  electrosensitivity.org
  powerwatch.org.uk
  
  Mri and ES symptoms?
  
  http://trusted.md/blog/anji/2008/02/06/mri_side_effects#axzz1ZZ52zXIE

• Cindy(Monday, October 03 11 12:03 pm EDT)

  Okay, I guess that this is the Tariff Rule 16, rule 11 that the technician was trying to intimiadte me with:
  
  11. Access to Applicant's Premises. SCE shall have the right to enter and leave
  Applicant's Premises for Non-Emergency purposes connected with the furnishing of
  electric service (e.g. meter reading, inspection, testing, routine repairs, replacement,
  maintenance,etc.). When necessary, SCE will make prior arrangements with
  Applicant for gaining access to Applicant’s Premises. For Emergency purposes only,
  SCE may enter Applicant’s Premises at all times, without notice to Applicant, and may
  exercise any and all rights secured to it by law, or under SCE's tariff schedules.
  These rights include, but are not limited to, Access to Applicant's Premises.
  a. The use of a SCE-approved locking device, if Applicant desires to prevent
  unauthorized access to his/her property containing SCE's facilities,
  b. Safe and ready access for SCE personnel free from unrestrained animals,
  c. Unobstructed ready access for SCE's vehicles and equipment to install,
  remove, repair, or maintain its facilities, and removal of any and all of its
  property installed on Applicant's Premises after the termination of service.
  
  Is just showing up on your door step prior arrangement? The Tech that showed up on my door was trying to tell me that I signed something when I bought my house and I am going to get a new meter whether I want one or not....What does replacement include? Parts, new meter?? SCE has access to my house no matter what?? Not regarding my health and privacy....

• maria(Monday, October 03 11 07:52 pm EDT)

  Answer to Cindy's question re: rule #16. the CPUC(California Public Utilites Commission) states ultility co. employees shall at all times have the right to enter your property to service your electicity or gas. However this does not apply to customers that are on the Smart Meter Delay list. CPUC ruled that SCE, PGE etc. can not come on your property to change your meter to a SM without your consent.
  Inaddition you are not required to give a reason why you don't want a Smart Meter. Judge at Sept. 14, 2011 workshop stated "no reason has to be given if you want to be on dealy list."

• maria(Thursday, October 06 11 05:37 pm EDT)

  Beware of SCE:
  If your on the SM delay list call back & confirm you're on it. I just found out that I was not put on the SM delay list until the END of Sept.. They said they had no record of the Certified letter I sent at the beginning of Sept. & no record of all the calls I made during the month of Sept. when I was trying to confirm I was on the SM delay list!

• T(Friday, October 07 11 01:56 am EDT)

  Would like to let people know that there will be approximately 5 homes picked in each tract or area (that have good clearance and THEY will get different meters that will be receiving 24 hour a day data from all of the neighboring homes. Those 5 meters will then transmit all that info to the base station in Irwindale(?) So it's even worst than I thought. Who wants to be one of the 5 homes receiving mega doses of radiation in comparison to the already dangerous amounts emitted from the "regular" smart meters?

• Susan Brinchman(Friday, October 07 11 06:58 pm EDT)

  A big thank you to all who attended the meeting in L.A. yesterday! You were all awesome. This is so important!
  
  http://www.californiaadmin.com/cpuc.shtml
  I just watched the whole public comments segment, which runs from 50:00:00 (approx) to 1:42:00 . If I missed any, plse correct and resend to me, will reissue. All speakers were outstanding! A big thank you to those who attended. This week there will be four CPUC meetings in San Diego County, I plan to attend several.
  
  Notable speakers on radiation/smart meters:
  
  50:00:00 (approx)
  Sandy Aders, outstanding job, spoke about her health being ruined by smart meters and nowhere to go, vision ruined, both she and husband developed cataracts within months of exposure
  Dorothy Sheldon, wants program stopped, has friend with vertigo from it, public health at risk
  1:01:03 Maureen Homec (Orange County) , spoke on all factors in general then on privacy and security (head of http://www.stopocsmartmeters.com/)
  Man 1:12 (OC) spoke on health concerns and Dr. Johansson's letter to the CPUC and Dr. David Carpenter's concerns about smart meters
  Shane Gregory (Burbank), has teflon brain implant for several decades, on SSI, living in car due to smart meters, uninhabitable apt., losing her home, nowhere to go when they all get deployed, meters and mesh network a danger
  1:24:00 Kiku Iwata (Burbank Action) magnificent job
  people being made sick within sanctity of home by smart meters, submitted abstracts about EMF sensitivity, list of demands to drop the program
  1:28:37 Elizabeth (Liz) Barris, LA resident magnificent job
  explained to Mr. Peevey how she cannot occupy her apt without sharp pain in head from pulses, cannot sleep if there, is sleeping in her car for 2.5 months since moving to apt with smart meters, has cold due to sleeping outside, Edison wants to charge $4000 which her landlady wants her to pay if they return her to analog, she can't afford this. She pleaded w/ Peevey to do the same thing he did with the man in SF, to instruct Edison to remove smart meter and restore analog at no cost, asked can he please do this, made eye contact w/ Mr. P...He indicated that the Edison reps there were giving him an affirmative...
  Linda Stock, Calabasas (representing herself but head of Calabasas Committee on Science and Technology)
  wants no cost optout plan, which the committee has recommended the Calabasas city gov't support
  Connie Hudson - optout of digital meters be allowed, she has an email from someone in Europe assciated with WHO's decision (IARC?) who wrote that smart meter emissions are covered by the rf radiation 2b carcinogen decision. (we need to obtain that document)
  Terry Siemens (Coachella Valley) thanked Peevey for decision to retain analogs (delay), described how her kitchen is uninhabitable from the smart meter of a neighbor that is 20 feet away, has thousands of volts of electricity running under house and yard, wants solutions
  1:37 Ellen Franken (Calabasas) spoke about how astounded she was that such a plan was developed in a covert (hidden) manner, headaches and sleeping problems have resulted, FDA recognizes that rf radiation interferes with implanted devices and millions can therefore die from this program
  1:39:40 Gary Hedrick (San Clemente Green) made comments about concerns about San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant
  1:40:20 Charles Black commented on smart meters, rf as class 2b carcinogen, not being told of risks, wants the smart grid rollout stopped, return to analogs at no cost
  
  1:42:00 end of public comments portion
  
  
  Susan Brinchman,
  Founder / Director Center for Electrosmog Prevention (CEP)
  Southern Californians Against Smart Meters (SCASM)
  American Coalition Against Smart Meters
  Smart Meter Dangers www.smartmeterdangers.org
  Center for School Mold Help (national 501c3 nonprofit) www.schoolmoldhelp.org
  Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/No2SmartMeters;
  Educational Speaker's Packet: Reasons to Say No to Smart Meters
  P.O. Box 655
  La Mesa, CA, 91944-0655
  To Donate:www.electrosmogprevention.org/donate.html
  director@electrosmogprevention.org
  
  “The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.” Winston Churchill
  
  “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi

• DAWN MARTIN(Saturday, October 08 11 08:04 pm EDT)

  I am filing a complaint in Federal Court on Mon. 10/10/2011 to have my smart meter removed, as I have been very sick since it's installation. Too sick to go into detail; dizziness, nausea, insominia, tiredness, etc., etec.

• John(Sunday, October 16 11 05:09 pm EDT)

  To Susan Brinchman: Thanks for taking the time to compile and offer the public speaker details of the Oct. 7th CPUC meeting in LA.
  A video of Ms. Barris' conversation w/CPUC's Mr. Peevey is now on the front page of stopsmartmeters.org
  Keep up the great work!
  PS: For an accurate record,I am the guy that was the last speaker that Friday, first name is John.

• Melissa Levine(Sunday, October 16 11 07:32 pm EDT)

  Thank you very much for setting up this web site. I am an Irvine resident (near Turtle Rock) and yesterday Corix was in our neighborhood installing these "smart meters." When I went out to ask him if they were the "controversial meters" which emit RF radiation, he said he didn't know and suggested I check the web site. I did--then walked down the street to track him down and request he put my analog meter back--which he did.
  My two adjacent neighbors' smart meters, however, are pointed toward our house--and the neighbor I talked to didn't even know it had been installed.
  I will try to attend the Tustin group. Is there also a group of Irvine residents working on this--to work with other groups but with our own city as well?
  Melissa Levine
  melissalevine@cox.net

• Melissa Levine(Sunday, October 16 11 07:56 pm EDT)

  Second Comment. When I talked to Edison today, I asked if they could send out someone to measure the RF radiation similar to how we can call if we smell a possible gas link. The person on the phone told me that they are not doing that--that the device has already been tested and approved. . .
  This seems irresponsible--especially if this is a device which can vary in its emissions or possibly malfunction.

• Melissa Levine(Sunday, October 23 11 12:55 pm EDT)

  Two Items
  
  1. New Yahoo Group
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StopSmartMetersOC/
  
  2. Irvine City Council Meeting, This Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
  Public Comments will be heard at 6:30 PM, 3 minutes each
  City Council Chamber, One Civic Center Plaza, Irvine, CA
  
  Residents who are opposed to the blitzkrieg Smart Meter Installation which is sweeping Irvine and the rest of Orange County
  are invited to speak up and help raise public awareness about this issue. Whether you choose to speak or not,
  please help pack the City Council member chambers–to show our City Council that we want environmental impact report,
  more safety measures, and the City Council to support an Opt Out for Smart Meters.

• Melissa Levine(Wednesday, October 26 11 04:00 pm EDT)

  There were about a dozen people who spoke about Smart Meters at last night's Irvine City Council meeting, which I think is a very respectable turn out for an issue which most of us weren't even aware of until very recently. There were also supporters in the audience who didn't speak.
  This is the link http://irvine.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=22&clip_id=2939
  
  The first person spoke during the Healthy Irvine, Green Initiative section. He was quite elegant in his theme of what we lose from Smart Meters.
  His talk beings at 1:08 on the video.
  
  The other Smart Meter speakers begin at 134.25
  
  Mayor Kang had reduced our speaking time to just two minutes each. What was very nice, though, was that even though most of us had never met --the different speakers touched on (or reinforced) different issues with the Smart Meters, so
  that there is a kind of balanced discussion of concerns.
  
  Melissa
  PS. I also sent a follow up letter to the City Council (reference list of reputable and helpful links/articles) which I posted on the yahoo group.

• Melissa Levine(Thursday, October 27 11 03:09 am EDT)

  http://electromagnetichealth.org/audio-archives-and-more/
  
  Radio interview "Smart Grid Sensibility" with science writer B. Blake Levitt and Duncan Campbell, Esq gives background and issues with the Smart Grid system and what we need to do about it, and I highly recommend. (I will do a synopsis at another time.) (You need to scroll down to this talk)
  
  
  I also would rank this web site, in terms of the respected in the field independent scientists/researchers whose work (interviews and writings) appears on it--to be highly reputable and reliable. It is a site, with many audios and other resources, worth taking the time to explore.
  
  PS. If the link does not work on this, click my name and you can get it from the Yahoo group post

• maria(Friday, October 28 11 10:14 pm EDT)

  Beware If you still have an analog meter I would suggest you read your own meter on the date that's stated on your bill for the reading. Write it down & when you get your bill compare the numbers.
  Since my neighborhood now has Smart Meters I decided to read my own analog meter just in case Southern California Edison did not send someone out to read it. When my bill came the reading on the statement was higher than the reading I took. I called SCE & they stated that they did send out a meter reader. I filed a complaint against the meter reader for over charging me.

• EES(Wednesday, November 23 11 07:33 pm EST)

  Thank you for your very informative site; my son and daughter in-law live in your area and I am very worried about their future. Your Florida friends stand with you in this fight against the tyranny of Smart Meters.
  
  -Coalition for Health Against Smart Meters (CHASM)

• Jenny(Friday, December 09 11 12:33 am EST)

  I called today to complain about the smart meter. I wish I knew more before they installed it. I let them know my concerns about my family's health and especially my son with special needs. They put me on "the list" and will be out to remove it within 30 days.

• Vicki(Monday, December 12 11 01:32 pm EST)

  Back in April SCE disconnected my electricity for nonpayment. I will be able to pay my bill in two weeks but am concerned about the fact that SCE continues to bill me each month for service I have not had and bill increases. They told me they could not give a final bill until the new meter is installed and have been very persistent trying to get on my property to make this intallation. As is stands There is a meter they called ERT Meter which looks the same as the SmartMeters, definitely not the old analog, they installed because I have dogs and did not answer the door for meter reader. I am nearly bedridden with chronic illness and developed increased sensitivity to EMF and the last thing I need is more exposure. Is there any other option for power to my home? Is SCE it? I am not sure what I should be doing to protect myself and how to deal with this.

• Dr. Adams(Thursday, December 15 11 12:56 pm EST)

  Edison can not charge you more money to have the meter remover or manually read if you have a medical reason. The Americans disabilities act protects people with medical problems against discrimination. When you talk with people at Corax or Edison be nice, get their full names from their employee ID card, notify them they are personally responsible and will be named in any lawsuit.

• Purpose(Saturday, January 21 12 09:26 am EST)

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