The EMF Safety Network PGE Smart Meter petition is now online: SIGN HERE! https://www.PetitionOnline.com/EMFsafe1/ Please forward widely to your friends, family and colleagues. Residents, employees and visitors of Sonoma County can sign the petition. Then scroll down to read and sign another Smart Meter petition started by a CA group called TURN which is demanding more accountability from PG&E and a moratorium on smart meters re skyrocketing bills after installation of meters.
Click here to learn more about Smart Meters and to read some excellent commentaries written by EMF experts. EMF Safety Network Are PGE Smart Meters Smart? THANK YOU!
Petition wording and Background:
Sonoma County is slated by PGE to have a new wireless grid installed in May 2010. Lampposts, buildings, and telephone poles will host the wireless repeater infrastructure to serve the new wireless PGE Smart Meters, which will be installed in every home and business. These devices will add yet another layer of radio frequencies (RF) to our homes and environment and will emit RF signals throughout the day and night. In light of the lack of FCC safety standards for chronic long term exposure to RF and in light of the of the call for the precautionary principle for wireless technology from global scientists, environmental agencies, advocacy groups and doctors, we, the undersigned request you:
1. Thoroughly investigate the PGE Smart Meter proposal and potential health risks of these devices by holding public hearings.
2. Require PGE to submit a characterization study of the smart meter system planned for Sonoma County.
3. Obtain the Smart Meter health and safety study PGE commissioned and make available to the public.
4. Allow customers to "opt out" of program.
5. Place a 6-9 month moratorium on all new wireless installations to allow time for a thorough scientific review.
Please send this information to others and ask for their support in requesting public hearings. Having a petition with signatures is an important way to show the amount of concern there is in the community.
There's also another group who's started a petition against these meters. TURN in SF, Stop Outrageous Smart Meter Bills
TURN Consumer Advocates:Index Here's what the TURN petition states: Stop Outrageous Smart Meter Bills!
PG&E customers in Bakersfield just finished their first summer with smart meters, a technological advance that was supposed to save customers money by helping them lower their energy bills. Instead, Bakersfield bills skyrocketed, and PG&E's response was 'don't use so much power.'
TURN received over 100 complaints about smart meters. PG&E customers told us their demands, and we're taking them to the CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission) and state legislature. Sign TURN's petition demanding more accountability from PG&E and a moratorium on smart meters. Click here to learn more about Smart Meters. THANK YOU!
Melissa Weaver, EMF Safety Network