The Coalition to Stop Smart Meters is calling upon all mayors and councils to unite around B.C. by calling for an immediate moratorium on the wireless smart meter program due to unresolved health, safety, privacy and security concerns.
So far, 31 individual municipalities have joined the Union of BC Municipalities vote asking for a halt to the forced installation of wireless meters on people’s homes without consent.
Sharon Noble, director of the coalition, points to the Jan. 24, 2012 moratorium decision of Santa Cruz County, Calif., based upon the advice of the Santa Cruz Public Health Officer, Dr. Poki Namking who stated: “The guidelines currently used by the FCC were adopted in 1996, are thermally based, and are believed to protect against injury that may be caused by acute exposures that result in tissue heating or electric shock. FCC guidelines” (which are the same as Canada’s) “ have a much lower certainty of safety than standards.
Meeting the current FCC guidelines only assures that one should not have heat damage from Smart Meter exposure. It says nothing about safety from the risk of many chronic diseases that the public is most concerned about such as cancer, miscarriage, birth defects, semen quality, autoimmune diseases, etc. Therefore, when it comes to non-thermal effects of RF, FCC guidelines are irrelevant and cannot be used for any claims of Smart Meter safety unless heat damage is involved.”
The Coalition has joined with the Citizens for Safe Technology in taking legal actions — one calling for a cease and desist order to the BC Utilities Commission and another, a Human Rights complaint, on behalf of the many people with health problems or sensitive medical devices who are at risk from forced exposure to wireless “smart meter” microwave radiofrequency emissions in their homes.
The Coalition calls upon every mayor and council to act now to protect their citizens by approving a moratorium on wireless “smart meter” installation until these serious public issues are resolved. This local government action is in accordance with bill 23-2008 of the British Columbia Public Health Act, section 83 (1), where a municipality must take action when it learns of something that could be harmful to its residents.
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