From: Michele Linfante
To: City Council
Cc: Michele Linfante
Subject: Fwd: POST smart meters, reported health concerns, increased cost/ little benefit, &safety & privacy issues.
Date: Tuesday, September 06, 2022 11:32:53 AM
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From: Judy Morgan < >
Subject: Fwd: POST smart meters, reported health concerns, increased cost/ little benefit, &safety & privacy issues.
Date: September 5, 2022 at 5:19:33 PM PDT
Cc: Joanna Claire <r >
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From: Joanna C <
Date: September 5, 2022 at 1:28:44 PM PDT
To: Judy Morgan <
Subject: POST smart meters, reported health concerns, increased cost/ little benefit, &safety & privacy issues.
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Are there any problems with Smart Meters? Well, it appears that there are many problems with smart meters, and they include health concerns, increased cost for little benefit, as well as safety and privacy issues.
Are there health concerns?
Health concerns are paramount for one doctors’ organization. The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) is concerned enough about potential health hazards from smart meter emissions to issue a recommendation for “patients with a broad array of illnesses”:
The recommendation, which includes reference to 20 peer-reviewed studies showing biological harm from wireless technologies, indicates that patients with neurological, neurodegenerative diseases, genetic defects, cancer, and other conditions would benefit from avoiding pulsed RF radiation from smart meters.
The AAEM recommends: that no Smart Meters be on these patients’ homes, (and) that Smart Meters be removed within a reasonable distance of patients’ homes… The Consumers Digest report said “In helping to create the smart-meter industry, politicians from both parties have done what’s best for the industry rather than for consumers.” Here’s what the report said about potential savings: “So far, smartmeter systems have produced little energy savings except in small and carefully controlled projects in which consumers have basically been spoon-fed on how to realize the maximum benefits. These projects have included time-of-use pricing and often include home-area networks that allow participants to monitor and control electricity use.” [emphasis added]