Say no to smart meters

Smart Meters violate your freedom to manage electromagnetic pollution in your home.
Smart meters monitor, measure and communicate customers private electricity, gas and water usage data to utility providers. They operate in a wireless mesh network with your neighbours smart meters and transmit intense bursts of non-ionising, microwave radiation, every minute 24hrs/day. This radiation is the same kind emitted by mobile phone masts. More than 5000 independent studies have shown that electromagnetic radiation is harmful to humans, plants and animals.

06 May 2011. Council of Europe Report “potential dangers of Electromagnetic Fields and there effect on the environment” calls for immediate reduction in exposure to Emf (Electromagnetic Fields) by children. Advocates precautionary principles be applied to wireless emissions to prevent a public health disaster akin to tobacco, leaded petrol and asbestos.

31 May 2011. World Health Organisation Categorises Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields as a Class 2B possible carcinogen, the same as lead, DDT, chloroform & Mercury.

Actual symptoms reported from exposure to Smart Meters include
Insomnia, headaches, palpitations, seizure, fatigue, allergies,agitation, nausea, vomiting, tinnitus, dizziness, memory and concentration impairpirment.

Human, animal and cell culture studies indicate long term systematic health effects from electromagnetic radiation. These include: hormone disruption, DNA damage, leakage of blood-brain barrier, sperm count reduction & damage, sleep disorders, learning difficulties, attention deficit & hyperactivity disorders, dementia and cancer including leukaemia and brain tumours. There is concern that pregnant women & children are particularly vulnerable.

The safety standards still used by the UK government with regard to microwave radiation are based entirely on thermal effects, taking no account of biological effects at all. This approach has been voted as obsolete by the European Parliament.

Tree deaths, plant die-offs and bee colony collapse disorder cases have been reported shortly after smart meter installation.

Smart meters will also make it far easier to disconnect customers remotely- a particular concern in the light of hacking threats, especially to water meters. In practise changing energy supplier has proved problematic for customers who have installed smart meters in their homes. In the USA energy bills have on average increased by about 40% after smart meters were installed. One thing is absolutely certain, the eleven billion pounds allocated by the Government to fund their installation in every home in the country will inevitable be paid for by the consumers.