The TRUTH about Smart Meters

The UK is starting to see the spread of a new insidious technology that has already plagued the United States and left many of it's users both financially and physically poorer for it; the Smart Meter. The Smart Meter is being rolled out by a number of energy suppliers in the UK and although optional at this stage, it will become mandatory as the UK's official national smart meter roll-out will start in 2014 and finish in 2019.  Every home will have to have one!

Ok, so what is a Smart Meter?  Well, the old-style gas and electricity meters we use at the moment need readings to being taken every few months and then given to our energy providers, from which our bills are calculated.  The new Smart Meter measures your exact gas and electricity usage and then sends all the information back to your energy supplier.  No more meter readings of old.  “Hurrah” I hear you say.

But wait, that sounds very clever, but exactly how do they get this information from your Smart Meter to your supplier?  Well, the details of your power usage are transmitted from meter to meter in a network, using wireless RF signals, just like mobile phones. This RF radiation has been classified as a possible carcinogen by the World Health Organization (as has DDT and lead) and its contribution to brain tumours via cell phones is just now becoming more widely recognised by the medical community.

The EMF emissions from these meters are both greater in volume and more frequent than power companies admit.  Some representative say the meters transmit RF six times a day; others, once an hour. Independent RF specialists have measured them every 45 seconds, or even twice in a minute.  As for peak power of Smart Meter radiation signals, power companies maintain that the RF transmissions are well within FCC standards, that they transmit data for only a fraction of a second and are far weaker than other everyday radio frequency emitters, such as cell phones, cell towers and Wi-Fi.  However, independent environmental EMF consultants have found that peak pulses to be far greater in intensity than the “average pulse” that many utility companies claim, sometimes up to 1000 times more powerful than a cell phone.

Smart Meters in the United States are already receiving massive negative publicity.  Smart Meter complaints include: skyrocketing utility bills, privacy invasion, vulnerability to cyber attack, interference with security systems and other wireless devices, burned out appliances, explosions, fires and health problems including headaches, tinnitus, sleep and heart problems, anxiety, nausea, and other health symptoms following installation.

Such is the negativity surrounding these Smart Meters, that Sebastopol in California became the 15th local jurisdiction to make Smart Meter installations illegal, along with Fairfax, Ojai, Santa Cruz, and Marin, Lake, Mendocino and Santa Cruz counties and others are following suit.

And don’t these promises and claims from the power companies sound very similar to the tobacco industries claims that cigarettes were safe in the 1970’s?

Here are just a few of the many complaints filed by consumers in the USA:

“A huge pulse repeat every 10 seconds is interrupting my WIFI, blue tooth and wireless internet. Stay with your original analog meter. I’m so angry. Now my recording studio clients and friends won’t use my facility.”

“I have a separate electricity meter for a water well. For the thirty years I have lived in my house the usage has been the same until after the “smart meter” was installed. There was no change in the usage, but my bill more than tripled.”

“We had a bee colony close to my meter. When my power supplier’s guys came to put in the smart meter, I warned them of it. One told me, ‘Don’t worry, this will get rid of them’.  After a few days, the bees abandoned the nest and never returned.”

It seems that Smart Meters aren't so smart after all!