Mount Alexander Shire Stop Smart Meters Support Group

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Stop Smart Meters Australia

Mount Alexander Shire Stop Smart Meters Support Group
We’ll be at Wesley Hill Market (near Castlemaine) Saturday 14th July 8am – 1pm.
Information packs, letter writing points and $2 bumper stickers available.
Email: stopsmartmeters@skymesh.com.au
Phone: 5473 4153

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I am now getting pulsating headaches at night!

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Stop Smart Meters Australia

Sony Crystal: Well it’s official, I am now getting pulsating headaches at night, ever since these guys installed a smart meter on the wall out the front of our home, a few days ago.

My armchair is right next to the wall where the smartmeter is on the other side. I have not had one headache or migraine for nineteen years ever since I gave up having sugar in my diet.

Every night now I start to feel like I am catching the flu, and then I feel this weird pulsation on the right side of the brain which faces the wall, which results in me developing a headache. If I walk far enough away from the wall where the smart meter is, the headache starts to subside.

It really feels like there is a giant mobile phone on the other side of our wall. The guys straight out lied to my face before they very quickly installed the smart meter, telling me how safe and ok it was as far as my health was concerned.

They told me that the people on Current Affairs had just made up stories about the smart meter, that the old lady who said she could hear humming and felt really ill after her smart meter was installed, was just trying to get out of paying her bill.

They told me a whole lot more bunch of lies so in the end I trusted them, against my own better judgement. I was very against the stupid meters in the beginning, but these guys work on you so convincingly, that you begin to think that you might be worried about nothing.

I am now going to go to the local council with a letter from my doctor and I am going to get them to remove the *** stupid meter.

If you want to learn more about how other people feel about the stupid meter, here is the link: https://stopsmartmeters.com.au/

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Public Meeting Daylesford Thursday 5th July 7pm

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Stop Smart Meters Australia

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Letter of the week!

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Stop Smart Meters Australia

Stop Smart Meters Australia receives copies of numerous letters addressed to power distributors from people who are refusing installation of smart meters. We thought this letter deserves sharing…….

Powercor Smart Meter Letter.pdf

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Public Meeting Upwey Friday 29th June 7pm

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Stop Smart Meters Australia

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Action Kits

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Stop Smart Meters Australia

Victorians are being misinformed.  The so called ‘mandate that every Victorian home and small business will have a smart meter installed’, actually states:

‘Each distributor must use its best endeavours to install a remotely read interval meter’….etc (Victorian Government Gazette S200 dated 28th of August 2007, para 14.1)

It does NOT state that customers HAVE to accept them!

In doing their “best endeavours” to install smart meters the distributors are adopting bullying tactics including:

▪    Threatening to disconnect electricity

▪    Threatening to impose financial penalties

▪    Telling the customer that they have to accept installation

▪    Threatening to break any locked meter box

As mentioned earlier on this site, the Essential Services Commission “does not consider the [above] behaviour described as being consistent with “best endeavours”.

Yet, bullying of customers continue…..

As a result of growing requests for assistance in refusing the installation of smart meters or having analogue meters returned, Stop Smart Meters Australia has updated the “Actions you can take” section of the website to include two Action Kits.

There is now an array of actions and letters people can choose from to assist them.  See: Actions you can take

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Smart Meters in Colac from October | colacherald.com.au

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Stop Smart Meters Australia

ELECTRICITY distributor Powercor plans to install controversial Smart Meters in Colac homes from October.

Powercor and CitiPower communications analyst Chris Riviere visited Colac this week to explain the roll-out and address concerns about Smart Meters, as the project approached Colac.

Mr Riviere said Powercor had been installing the new meters region by region, and providing information about the meters to each area as the roll-out progressed.

“The downside is a lot of people haven’t received the information that they should have, and they have built a lot of fear about Smart Meters,” he said.

Mr Riviere said people were mainly concerned about the meters’ impact on their health and power bills………………………….

Read the rest of the article via Smart Meters in Colac from October | colacherald.com.au.

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Smart meter anger in Frankston – Frankston Weekly

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Stop Smart Meters Australia

A SMART meter protest group has been formed following a packed public meeting in Frankston.

Organisers were only expecting about 30 people to attend the meeting at the Frankston Mechanics Institute Hall, but 130 turned up to voice concerns over the state government’s smart meter roll out.

Some residents of Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula believe the devices are causing poor health including headaches and ringing in the ears, with a few sleeping in vehicles, tents and workplaces to avoid symptoms.

Frankston councillor Glenn Aitken, who has thrown his support behind protesters, said those at the meeting came from as far away as Cockatoo, Monbulk and Elsternwick.

“I’ve dealt with people issues for a long enough to know that 99 per cent of the time there is a real reason for it. These people are genuinely not well,” he said.

An action group was started and Cr Aitken shared a letter which he is encouraging concerned people to send to the government and installers.

The letter formally withdraws consent for the installation of meters and states that any health and financial losses are the responsibility of parties involved in their installation.

Protesters will write to the state government asking that the roll out be discontinued or made optional and that meters are removed from the homes of those who believe they are ill as a result.

Cr Aitken confirmed he would raise a similar item at Frankston Council and push for a Victorian class action.

Last month, Energy Safe Victoria released a draft report which found that smart meters were safe and that there was no evidence the meters were exploding or causing fires. It attributed reported meter failures to criminal damage.

A United Energy spokesman told the Weekly that having a smart meter installed was compulsory and the roll out would be completed by the end of 2013.

The company would not disconnect electricity supplies of those refusing smart meter installation or cut locks placed on meter boxes by residents. Instead, a card would be left asking the resident to contact United Energy to discuss concerns.

“We’ll move on to the next house initially but if installation is looking unlikely in 2013 we will have to talk to the state government,” he said. “There is no penalty at this stage – we haven’t discussed penalties.”

via Smart meter anger in Frankston – Local News – News – General – Frankston Weekly.

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Stop Smart Meter Australia’s submission to Energy Safe Victoria

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Stop Smart Meters Australia

Energy Safe Victoria’s draft report Safety of Advanced Metering Infrastructure in Victoria did not adequately deal with all of the key issues of concern to the Victorian community.

Subsequently, Stop Smart Meters Australia responded with the following submission.

In their final report, let us hope that Energy Safe Victoria responds to the issues outlined in our submission, especially to the numerous questions presented.

Click here to download the ESV submission

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(Another) Local Government Bans Smart Meters!

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Stop Smart Meters Australia

The City of Ojai joined other Californian local governments Santa Cruz, Marin, Lake, Mendocino, Capitola, Fairfax, Lake Port, Rio Dell, Ross, Seaside and Watsonville to adopt an ordinance officially banning smart meters within their municipalities.  Overall, more than 56 local governments in California have now officially declared their opposition to current smart grid policy, an overwhelming statement of democratic opposition to a flawed and dangerous system, including  who have banned them.

Below are excerpts from the adopted City of Ojai ordinance:

H. FCC safety standards are inadequate to address chronic long-term exposure to EMF or from multiple sources, and fail to recognize reported adverse health effects from electromagnetic pollution include sleep disorders, irritability, short term memory loss, headaches, anxiety, nausea, DNA breaks, abnormal cell growth, cancer, premature aging, etc. Because of untested technology, international scientists, environmental agencies, advocacy groups and doctors are calling for the use of caution in wireless technologies; and

I. Opt out rules belatedly approved by the CPUC are unjust, discriminatory and ineffective and should be reformed before any more SmartMeters are deployed by SCE; and

J. Because the potential risks to the health, safety and welfare of City residents are so great, the City Council wishes to adopt a moratorium on the installation of SmartMeters and related equipment within the City of Ojai. The moratorium period will allow the Council on Science and Technology and legislative process referenced above to be completed and for additional information to be collected and analyzed regarding potential problems with SmartMeters; and

K. There is a current and immediate threat to public health, safety and welfare because, without this urgency ordinance, SmartMeters or supporting equipment are being installed or constructed or modified in the City subjecting residents of Ojai to the privacy, security, health, accuracy and consumer fraud risks of the unproven SmartMeter technology; 

The full ordinance of May 29 2012 can be downloaded from Ojai’s website (pdf).

Proof democracy is still alive on a local level – at least in California!

When will Australian local governments start standing up for their residents??? 

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