Dear Editor,This message is a call to action for Whistler homeowners who have not yet had a "Smart" meter installed on your property.
Numerous problems have already been identified with the smart meter program. In particular, privacy of personal information, lack of network security, inexplicable increase in apparent consumption and the conflict of interest between the B.C. Hydro board members and Corix (the company installing the meters).
While these issues are all serious, and certainly merit our consideration, I am writing about a far more serious issue: The smart meters represent a proven and very serious health risk.
According to independent researchers, smart meters will blanket our neighborhoods with electro-magnetic and radio frequency radiation at levels between 100 and 160 times higher than continuous cell phone use. You can see for yourself the dangerous levels of RF and EMF being emitted from these things every four to five seconds by using a high-frequency analyzer. This is being done by many different sources all with the same conclusion.
What I am urging all Whistler homeowners to do (if you don't have a smart meter yet) is send an official letter to B.C. Hydro refusing the meter on your property. You can find a template for this opt-out letter on the Whistler Watch website. It is also important to post a laminated sign next to your meter stating that they do not have your permission to install a smart meter. A template for this can be found on the Citizens For Safe Technology website.
The following are just a few of the reputable scientists and doctors publicly speaking out against "smart" meters: Dr. David Carpenter, a Harvard Medical School graduate who headed New York State Department Of Public Health for 18 years, Daniel Hirsch, senior lecturer on nuclear policy at the University Of California, Dr. Henry Lai, research professor in the Department of Bioengineering at University Of Washington, and Professor Franz Adlkofer of the Verum-Foundation in Austria.
In my townhouse there are six meters grouped together right outside my front door, and 100 units total in my concentrated neighborhood. There has been absolutely no testing on the long-term health effects of this arrangement.
This neighborhood has a lot of children that love to play outside, from the neighborhood playground, to street hockey, to skateboards and bicycles etc. These children who absorb twice as much radiation as adults I fear are at serious risk of health problems such as various types of cancers, which can take roughly 20 years to manifest as a result of chronic exposure to electro-magnetic and radio frequency radiation.
Please do not give up this fight, as I feel it is one of great importance.
Jeremy Thom
WHISTLER
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