Letter to the Editor: Not so smart

 

 

By Murdoch June 25, 2012

As reported in your newspaper, "smart meters" are coming to Saskatchewan. Your readers might be interested to know that countries world-wide are digging in their heels against this terribly dangerous and flawed technology.


At least 50 B.C. municipalities have voted various delaying tactics including outright bans. Several serious house fires, including two last Friday in Mission, B.C., have been attributed to the installation of smart meters. Over 800 smart-meter fires have been documented in California alone. In many cases, neither the utilities nor the insurance companies will accept responsibility.


France, at a cost of 75 million euros, is removing all wi-fi from its public schools. Pourquoi?


Italy has smart meters, but they are all hard-wired, using fibre optics. Now that's smart! Other nations have just banned them...period!


The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared all wireless technology a Class 2B carcinogen. That's cancer, folks.


You probably know someone who can't use a microwave or go near high-power transmission lines without getting ill. It's called hyperelectrosensitivity, it's on the rise and the WHO is taking it seriously. Stack all the cordless phones, cell phones, iPods, TV remotes, microwave ovens, baby monitors and all the other wireless devices in your life, and there is a host of them, one on top of the other and you have a life-threatening Dagwood sandwich right here in your own 'hood.


Cheaper rates - don't believe it for one minute. And I almost forgot. The smart grid can be easily hacked into and creates a huge, whole new invasion of your, yes, your privacy. Smart meters aren't very smart Ed Murdoch, Enderby, B.C.


Murdoch is a former resident of Regina.

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