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I am being bombarded with emails from various sources re:
people not wanting them. This information came to me in one email.

1) Don't believe they will communicate with you before
installing. They have not done so consistently with others. That is why so many
have covered their meters to protect them.

2) The meters may emit for an "average" of one
minute total, with extremely strong signals that are only milliseconds long.
With 60,000 milliseconds in a minute, that is one heck of a lot of signals. And
it is these spikes which scientists say do the damage to our body's cells.
Modulations stress the cell walls leading to leakage, DNA damage, etc.

3) We have asked time and again for substantiation of the
claim that a 30 min. cell phone call equals 20 yrs. of smart meter signals.
They cannot provide any. I don't believe it — not from what experts have said.
Dr. Daniel Hirsch from the Univ. of So. Calif. says one smart meter emits more
radiation than many cell phones. Given Hydro's record of having and giving
accurate information, I tend to believe Dr. Hirsch rather than them.

4) As for the strength of the signal at 3 meters — not
credible when it is signaling. With such a low signal, how can it communicate
with a transmitter perhaps a mile or more away? To add to that, there are many
studies showing even 0.01 microwatts per square centimeter, which is the
correct measurement, not per square inch, can and does cause health effects.

5) As for the Planetworks Consulting — I doubt very much
that an independent firm would say that the meters are safe. They won't because
they can't. At "a radiofrequenccy" below limits??? Radiofrequency is
not controlled by Safety Code 6. This is the 900 MHz range that it transmits
on. It is the power density which is limited by Safety Code 6 — and it doesn't
apply to non-thermal radiation like that from smart meters.

6) As for privacy — don't banks encrypt their data? And
they get hacked. Doesn't the Pentigon take measures to protect its data? Yet
they get hacked. Wireless communication is notoriously easy for hackers to get
into.

7) Smart meters cannot detect what appliances are being
used, but the zigbee chip inside the meter can. Hydro has put zigbee chips into
the meters and when a person says he wants to know how much energy he is using
per minute, the chip will be activated. How else could you know? And when the
data is gathered for you, Hydro and anyone else will have the data, too.

From being an elder and living through so many things that
were found to detrimental for us after the fact. ( e.g. Thalidomide medicine
for morning sickness in pregnancy that later caused babies to be born with no
or deformed limbs. Also governments hiding reality, e.g. Not letting the
information out re: how much radiation the people in Japan are receiving after
the nuclear meltdown of Fukishima. I cannot have any faith that these meters
are also not detrimental — and if they prove to be it will be hidden from us.
(Though hard if we start getting sick.)