Dear Messrs. Reid, Murphy, Ms. Verschoor, BC Hydro Smart Meter Team, and Corix Utilities:

Re: B.C. Hydro Account # _________  Address: ___________________________________________

I wrote to 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. 

You wrote back on behalf of B.C. Hydro, which serves as an acknowledgement of B.C. Hydro's receipt of my notice of refusal.

In your reply you create fictitious hoops for me to jump through to exercise my rights.  You make it clear that 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 and your letter 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 fictitious 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, in part because I am worried about being intimidated and not taken seriously. 

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 dsnoble@shaw.ca and Una St. Clair at una@citizensforsfetechnology.org with a copy to me.  Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

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