My SMART METERS Letter ...and lots more
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 8:50 am
ALERT: LETTER OF NON-CONSENT FOR SMART METER
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BC Hydro Smart Meter Specialist Department Date:__January 27, 2012_________________
6911 Southpoint Drive,
Burnaby, B.C. V3N 4X8
Attention: Mr. Charles Reid, Mr. Gary Murphy, Ms. Cindy Verschoor, BC Hydro, Corix Utilities and /or assignees thereof:
Dear Messrs. Reid, Murphy, Ms. Verschoor, BC Hydro Smart Meter Team, and Corix Utilities:
Re: B.C. Hydro Account # _XXXX-4905-XXX_ Address: _XXXX Rd, Victoria BC_
I contacted B.C. Hydro to give clear notice that I am refusing to allow the installation of a Wireless "Smart Meter" on my property. I made it clear in my communication that I am refusing to have my privacy rights violated. I also made it clear that my decision to refuse a Wireless Smart Meter is also to protect my health and the health of my family.
I called Corix who said they would not cancel the installation order and I would have to call BC Hydro.
Your representative “Sam” (who returned my call and refused to further identify herself) responded on behalf of B.C. Hydro that the installation would go ahead, which serves as an acknowledgement of B.C. Hydro's receipt of my notice of refusal. I indicated I may wish to pursue a property line drop where the meter is the maximum distance from my home. This may take some time and perhaps this would not occur by the installation date planned. She then indicated she would contact the RCMP after I suggested I would respond and act against any attempt to install a smart meter against my wishes on my property. The RCMP have contacted me and left a message. I will return their call but I am unclear as to what end. I know my rights. I feel the installation of SMART meters is equivalent to threatening myself and my family and I reserve the right to defend myself and them. I have no wish to harm any installers or representatives. I have made it abundantly clear to her and now to you: THERE WILL BE NO SMART METER INSTALLED ON THIS PROPERTY. If your representatives choose to perform this installation against my wishes and perhaps during my absence you will also find that your meter will again be removed by a qualified person and a certified analog meter will be re-installed. I take no responsibility for the safety, care and functioning of your SMART meter which you may then again pick up at my location.
I am told I am given no options in this regard and I must fill out a form and meet with a B.C. Hydro representative, and if I do not, my current meter will be exchanged with a Wireless Smart Meter. Therefore, you are saying that I must comply with the conditions created in your letter before I can exercise: my right to privacy, my right to protect my health and the health of my family and my property rights.
There is no basis in law for nullifying a clear and unambiguous exercise of rights by imposing fictitious conditions that do not exist in law.
CONTRARY TO YOUR ASSERTIONS, ANY FAILURE OR REFUSAL BY ME TO ENGAGE IN CONSULTATION WITH B.C. HYDRO OR ITS AGENTS CANNOT AND WILL NOT REVOKE OR NULLIFY MY REFUSAL OF CONSENT TO THE INSTALLATION OF A WIRELESS SMART METER ON MY PROPERTY OR PREMISES.
The B.C. Hydro Smart Metering Program raise some very troubling ethical issues. Electricity is an essential service that we cannot live without. We have only one electricity provider and so are locked into this essential service. Now the sole provider is imposing, without consent, Wireless Smart Meters in our homes, workplaces and neighbourhoods. I have the following questions for B.C. Hydro:
1. Why do the residents of B.C. have no say in whether they want to protect their privacy by refusing to allow devices that disclose personal details, such as their electricity use patterns; information the police currently need a warrant to obtain?
2. We, who have written to B.C. Hydro refusing Wireless Smart Meters, are legitimately concerned about the potential health consequences of the manmade, pulsed microwave radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation emitted by these devices. Have we reached a time in B.C. when individuals, in an effort to protect their personal health and the health of their families, can no longer choose to avoid perceived dangers in their very homes?
3. Are we at a place in B.C. where we have no choice but to allow our neighbourhoods to be contaminated by manmade, pulsed microwave radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation emitting constantly at street level from multiple Wireless Smart Meters and wireless infrastructure; to have no choice but to have our children play in streets and communities where their little bodies are subjected to a soup of manmade, pulsed microwave radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation which we believe poses health risks and concerns us greatly as parents and caring people?
4. B.C. Hydro is a monopoly, owned by the public. Is it appropriate for corporations like BC Hydro to impose conditions on customers who wish to register refusal of a new Wireless Smart Meter? Is it appropriate for our utility company to intimidate customers in attempts to force them to forego their rights to health, privacy and the welfare of their families?
5. What law or regulation gives B.C. Hydro the right to place a two-way radiofrequency telecommunications device on my home without my permission?
The B.C. Clean Energy Act is being touted as a the authority for B.C. Hydro to install Smart Meters. Nowhere in that Act or the regulations is there any mandate to install Wireless Smart Meters. There is no reason that B.C. cannot provide its citizens with Wired Smart Meters, as do Idaho or Italy. The B.C. Government has not mandated Wireless Smart Meters in its legislation or in its regulations. That arbitrary decision is being forced on every B.C. household and business without authority.
I insist that B.C. Hydro reconsider its Wireless Smart Metering Program. Fair and reasonable accommodation, without undue financial costs and penalties, must be made for those who, like me, will not allow a Wireless Smart Meter to be installed. I am not willing to meet with B.C. Hydro but I wonder to what end, this letter explains my issues..
Executive members of the Coalition to Stop Smart Meters are willing to meet with B.C. Hydro on my behalf to address my concerns.
If you would like to set up an appointment to meet with these representatives, please send written notice of such request to Sharon Noble at and Una St. Clair at with a copy to me.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Markus Koloska BSc CSO CRSP
Copy (Cc) to
Corix Utilities, Liberal BC Leader Christy Clark, Minister of Energy Rich Coleman, NDP Energy Critic John Horgan, BC Chief Medical Officer Perry Kendall, NDP Deputy Health Critic Sue Hammell, Green Party Federal Leader Elizabeth May, Minister of Health, Mike de Jong, NDP Health Critic Mike Farnworth, NDP BC Leader Adrian Dix, Green Party BC Leader Jane Sterk
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Copy: Oak Bay Mayor and Council
Link to info is here: http://citizensforsafetechnology.org/sm ... ments,73,0
and
BC Hydro Smart Meter Specialist Department Date:__January 27, 2012_________________
6911 Southpoint Drive,
Burnaby, B.C. V3N 4X8
Attention: Mr. Charles Reid, Mr. Gary Murphy, Ms. Cindy Verschoor, BC Hydro, Corix Utilities and /or assignees thereof:
Dear Messrs. Reid, Murphy, Ms. Verschoor, BC Hydro Smart Meter Team, and Corix Utilities:
Re: B.C. Hydro Account # _XXXX-4905-XXX_ Address: _XXXX Rd, Victoria BC_
I contacted B.C. Hydro to give clear notice that I am refusing to allow the installation of a Wireless "Smart Meter" on my property. I made it clear in my communication that I am refusing to have my privacy rights violated. I also made it clear that my decision to refuse a Wireless Smart Meter is also to protect my health and the health of my family.
I called Corix who said they would not cancel the installation order and I would have to call BC Hydro.
Your representative “Sam” (who returned my call and refused to further identify herself) responded on behalf of B.C. Hydro that the installation would go ahead, which serves as an acknowledgement of B.C. Hydro's receipt of my notice of refusal. I indicated I may wish to pursue a property line drop where the meter is the maximum distance from my home. This may take some time and perhaps this would not occur by the installation date planned. She then indicated she would contact the RCMP after I suggested I would respond and act against any attempt to install a smart meter against my wishes on my property. The RCMP have contacted me and left a message. I will return their call but I am unclear as to what end. I know my rights. I feel the installation of SMART meters is equivalent to threatening myself and my family and I reserve the right to defend myself and them. I have no wish to harm any installers or representatives. I have made it abundantly clear to her and now to you: THERE WILL BE NO SMART METER INSTALLED ON THIS PROPERTY. If your representatives choose to perform this installation against my wishes and perhaps during my absence you will also find that your meter will again be removed by a qualified person and a certified analog meter will be re-installed. I take no responsibility for the safety, care and functioning of your SMART meter which you may then again pick up at my location.
I am told I am given no options in this regard and I must fill out a form and meet with a B.C. Hydro representative, and if I do not, my current meter will be exchanged with a Wireless Smart Meter. Therefore, you are saying that I must comply with the conditions created in your letter before I can exercise: my right to privacy, my right to protect my health and the health of my family and my property rights.
There is no basis in law for nullifying a clear and unambiguous exercise of rights by imposing fictitious conditions that do not exist in law.
CONTRARY TO YOUR ASSERTIONS, ANY FAILURE OR REFUSAL BY ME TO ENGAGE IN CONSULTATION WITH B.C. HYDRO OR ITS AGENTS CANNOT AND WILL NOT REVOKE OR NULLIFY MY REFUSAL OF CONSENT TO THE INSTALLATION OF A WIRELESS SMART METER ON MY PROPERTY OR PREMISES.
The B.C. Hydro Smart Metering Program raise some very troubling ethical issues. Electricity is an essential service that we cannot live without. We have only one electricity provider and so are locked into this essential service. Now the sole provider is imposing, without consent, Wireless Smart Meters in our homes, workplaces and neighbourhoods. I have the following questions for B.C. Hydro:
1. Why do the residents of B.C. have no say in whether they want to protect their privacy by refusing to allow devices that disclose personal details, such as their electricity use patterns; information the police currently need a warrant to obtain?
2. We, who have written to B.C. Hydro refusing Wireless Smart Meters, are legitimately concerned about the potential health consequences of the manmade, pulsed microwave radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation emitted by these devices. Have we reached a time in B.C. when individuals, in an effort to protect their personal health and the health of their families, can no longer choose to avoid perceived dangers in their very homes?
3. Are we at a place in B.C. where we have no choice but to allow our neighbourhoods to be contaminated by manmade, pulsed microwave radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation emitting constantly at street level from multiple Wireless Smart Meters and wireless infrastructure; to have no choice but to have our children play in streets and communities where their little bodies are subjected to a soup of manmade, pulsed microwave radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation which we believe poses health risks and concerns us greatly as parents and caring people?
4. B.C. Hydro is a monopoly, owned by the public. Is it appropriate for corporations like BC Hydro to impose conditions on customers who wish to register refusal of a new Wireless Smart Meter? Is it appropriate for our utility company to intimidate customers in attempts to force them to forego their rights to health, privacy and the welfare of their families?
5. What law or regulation gives B.C. Hydro the right to place a two-way radiofrequency telecommunications device on my home without my permission?
The B.C. Clean Energy Act is being touted as a the authority for B.C. Hydro to install Smart Meters. Nowhere in that Act or the regulations is there any mandate to install Wireless Smart Meters. There is no reason that B.C. cannot provide its citizens with Wired Smart Meters, as do Idaho or Italy. The B.C. Government has not mandated Wireless Smart Meters in its legislation or in its regulations. That arbitrary decision is being forced on every B.C. household and business without authority.
I insist that B.C. Hydro reconsider its Wireless Smart Metering Program. Fair and reasonable accommodation, without undue financial costs and penalties, must be made for those who, like me, will not allow a Wireless Smart Meter to be installed. I am not willing to meet with B.C. Hydro but I wonder to what end, this letter explains my issues..
Executive members of the Coalition to Stop Smart Meters are willing to meet with B.C. Hydro on my behalf to address my concerns.
If you would like to set up an appointment to meet with these representatives, please send written notice of such request to Sharon Noble at and Una St. Clair at with a copy to me.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Markus Koloska BSc CSO CRSP
Copy (Cc) to
Corix Utilities, Liberal BC Leader Christy Clark, Minister of Energy Rich Coleman, NDP Energy Critic John Horgan, BC Chief Medical Officer Perry Kendall, NDP Deputy Health Critic Sue Hammell, Green Party Federal Leader Elizabeth May, Minister of Health, Mike de Jong, NDP Health Critic Mike Farnworth, NDP BC Leader Adrian Dix, Green Party BC Leader Jane Sterk
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Copy: Oak Bay Mayor and Council
Link to info is here: http://citizensforsafetechnology.org/sm ... ments,73,0