Walt McGinnis gives us an update on what has been going on with the campaign to Stop Smart Meters in B.C. Discussion includes an update of Dr. Kendall's current stance on the matter.

"This video features exclusive footage of a press conference and direct action that was held at Provincial Health Officer Perry Kendall's office on May 9, 2012. Over one hundred people hand-delivered 160 scientific studies to the receptionist at Dr. Kendall's office at the Ministry of Health. 

"The program also features renowned Cellular Biophysicist Dr. Martin Blank who resoundingly and categorically informs the crowd that electro-magnetic radiation is damaging to cells and to DNA."

For more information go to:  stopsmartmeters.ca
Questions for Doctor Kendall
Letter and response from Doctor Kendall, 2011

Dear Parents and Grandparents,

On May 26, 2012, at the upcoming BCCPAC, please support Resolution #17 "Parent Choice Regarding Exposure to EMF Emissions"

(BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils) This resolution is not asking to remove Wi-Fi from all schools, but to provide wireless-free schools of choice. (Similar to French immersion, Montessori, or schools that emphasize a certain subject/sport, which are already available in B.C.)

It has taken hundreds of hours of work and debate in the BCCPAC Safety Committee to advance this resolution to the table. This is a much-needed opt-out solution for parents who want to follow the advice for precaution, as well as for children who have negative biological reaction to the pulsed microwave radiation emitted by Wi-Fi and wireless electronic devices in schools. These children are currently suffering physical symptoms while attending classes, or have to be withdrawn from schools because they are unable to take personal measures to avoid such exposure in campuses with Wi-Fi installed . . . (Resolution Book)

Votes can be cast by all Parent Advisory Councils, both PAC's and DPAC's, who are current, paid members. Votes are also possible by attending the AGM and voting by proxy.

Voting Instructions

Proxy Vote Form

Spring Conference Registration and Program

As we have witnessed, Corix and Hydro are becoming more aggressive in their attempt to fulfill the mandate to install smart meters on every home and business province wide by the end of the year.   More and more, installers are using forceful language in an effort to intimidate people to accept the Smart Meter without any more said.  Recently, some installers have even told occupants that they could/would bring police next time.

You need to know your rights, the limits of the police, and how to respond to any acts of intimidation by either the installer or the RCMP.  Attached is a letter you can use in this eventuality.  The form itself is designed to be completed by the occupant in advance, and signed by the occupant to give to the police should Corix actually call an officer for support. 
Our lawyer recommends you show it to anyone, any Corix or Hydro employee, making a threat. There is no legal justification for police involvement if you, yourself, do not make threatening gestures, (e.g. shaking a fist) or statements (e.g. I will throw you off my property.) 

Included is advice about your legal rights, the limits of police officers in a civil action, and a reminder to just keep saying "NO."  

Please make copies for your friends and neighbours, and keep a copy handy to read to any Corix installer who threatens to call the police. If you have a video camera, keep it handy.

"Corix takes the position that they can enter my property and do an installation on the basis of some lawful authority. I take the position that there is no lawful authority which entitles them to do that. There is a dispute between Corix, acting as agent for BC Hydro, and me, the property owner or occupant, as to whether Corix is within the scope of its authority to come and enter my property and install a wireless radiofrequency monitoring and metering device. In the absence of the issuance of the BC Utilities Commission of a Certificate of Convenience and Public Necessity, a civil dispute has arisen between me and Corix/BC Hydro as to whether their agency is acting within the scope of their authority.

"Pending the resolution of that civil dispute, I as legal occupant of this private property, by virtue of my ownership/tenancy to the property, hereby deny and prohibit Corix, acting as agent for BC Hydro, from entering my property for the purpose of installing a wireless radiofrequency monitoring and metering device, also known as a "Smart" meter. At the present time, I have chosen to retain the analogue meter.

"Furthermore, in the event that access to my property is being sought by any police agent, I deny such access on the basis that
a) no search warrant has been issued
b) there is no emergency at hand in which the welfare or safety of any individual is at stake and
c) the police do not take the position that they are entering for the purpose of investigating a crime in progress, or on the basis of suspected criminality in progress.  

"I request that my civil liberties, rights and freedoms are respected."

B.C. Hydro is in the process of installing wireless "smart" meters on 99% of homes and businesses in the province of British Columbia, with a target completion date of December, 2012.  They are doing so without due diligence or public education, using "implied consent" as their reason to proceed without permission of the people of B.C. 

This form letter is for those who have had a chance to learn more about the negative effects of living and/or working in the vicinity of wireless smart meters, who do not accept the risk this involves, and who wish to officially register their opposition in the form of a demand for removal of the wireless smart meter, and the re-installation of a wired, analogue meter.

NB You will need to download it in order to copy and paste it into your own email, and fill in your information before sending.

It would be a good idea to also register your situation with your mayor and council.  Address finder here.

If you do NOT already have a wireless "smart meter?"  After posting (ASAP) a sign with your address, name and date, on your meter and on your door, you can send the original Letter of Non-consent to register your wish to keep your analogue meter after posting your intention to. 

Via electronic mail to:  smartmeters@bchydro.com and info.utilities@corix.com

Also via Canada Post to:

BC Hydro,
Smart Meter Specialist Department
6911 Southpoint Drive, Burnaby BC, V3N 4X8 

Attention B.C. Hydro, Corix Utilities and agents and/or assignees thereof:

Re: DEMAND FOR REMOVAL of any wireless Smart Meter at my Residence/Workplace  AND RE-INSTALLATION of Analogue/Wired Meter

Dated: _______________, 201__      B.C. Hydro Account # on bill_____________

Address: ___________________________________________________________

Please accept this as your official notice from this date forward of my absolute demand for the removal of any wireless Smart Meter installed on my Residence / Workplace AND for the re-installation, at BC Hydro's expense, of a wired, analogue meter on my home or premises at

full address  ________________________________________________________

Take notice that B.C. Hydro, Corix Utilities and /or agents and assignees thereof did not have my authorization, permission or consent to enter my property, business or premises for the purpose of replacing my previous meter with a new wireless Smart Meter.

Your action of installing this device on my property or residence is constituted as trespass and a violation of rights afforded to me as a citizen of Canada. 

I refuse your wireless Smart Meter on the grounds that it has the capability of being a surveillance system, used by you or other parties, which could violate my right to privacy. 

Also: My fundamental democratic right to protect my health from a possible carcinogen, specifically radiofrequency electromagnetic fields emitted by your wireless Smart Meter, supersedes any right you have to install a wireless Smart Meter on my property.

You only have authorization to attend at my property for the purpose of reinstalling a non-wireless analogue meter, and reading it manually. 

Name in full ________________________________________________________________

Address: ___________________________________________________________________

Copy (Cc) to

Liberal BC Leader Christy Clark, Minister of Energy Rich Coleman, NDP Energy Critic John Horgan, BC Chief Medical Officer Perry Kendall, NDP Deputy Health Critic Sue Hammell, Green Party Federal Leader Elizabeth May, Minister of Health, Mike de Jong, NDP Health Critic Mike Farnworth,
NDP BC Leader Adrian Dix, Green Party BC Leader Jane Sterk, BCRefed Leader Ingrid Voigt  
         

premier@gov.bc.ca, rich.coleman.mla@leg.bc.ca, john.horgan.mla@leg.bc.ca, perry.kendall@gov.bc.ca, sue.hammell.mla@leg.bc.ca, elizabeth.may@greenparty.ca, mike.dejong.mla@leg.bc.ca, mike.farnworth.mla@leg.bc.ca, adrian.dix.mla@leg.bc.ca, leader@greenparty.bc.ca, ingridrefed@gmail.com 

This letter format can be accessed, downloaded, cut and pasted into your own email from:citizensforsafetechnology.org   (Smart Meter Action Kit under "REMOVAL LETTER")

This was first aired in 2010 as part of a 16x9 news item about Wi-Fi in Schools.  Concerned parents are interviewed about effects of Wi--Fi in their children's schools, and  Dr. David O. Carpenter sheds light on Health Canada's lack of diligence in addressing the problem.



Informal Video with Dr. Carpenter

"I am writing this letter to inform you of my activities to date with regard to the placement of cellular towers in Oakville.

"This issue is important because there are six cellular suppliers who want to establish a high grade of service in the GTA which will require many more cellular towers. These suppliers claim it's all about providing cellular telephone service in Oakville. It is really about building a much more comprehensive network so that consumers can watch TV shows on hand held devices, which will require broadcasting stronger radio frequency everywhere, reaching even the basements of our homes . . .

Re: Andrea Collins, the Citizens for Safe Technology Society and British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority
- Complaint under Section 47 of the Utilities Commission Act

"On behalf of Andrea Collins and the Citizens for Safe Technology Society ("the Complainants"), the following is submitted in reply to BC Hydro's submissions dated April 25, 2012, in the context of our reconsideration application with respect to the above-referenced matter.

A. Operation of the UCA by default BC Hydro asserts that the CEA exemption was meant to capture the smart meter system. We agree. This issue arises because there are two kinds of smart meter systems: hard-wired systems and wireless systems, the latter of which are accompanied by a host of health and environmental concerns.

"The Legislature and Cabinet knew, at all material times, that both these options existed. If it was intended that the exemption apply to the wireless option, why did the Legislature and Cabinet fail to make a specific reference in that regard - either by describing a system that includes a wireless component or by wireless functionality?

"The failure of the Legislature and Cabinet to bring, by explicit reference, wireless communication technology into the scope of the CEA exemption, results, by default, in the application of the UCA's CPCN requirement.  We advance this assertion based on the following reasoning . . .

"Vernon officials don't want smart meters forced on to anyone.

"Council unanimously voted Monday to urge B.C. Hydro to develop an opt-out procedure for people who don't want the remote monitoring devices.

"I believe people should be given the right to decide what goes on their houses," said Coun. Bob Spiers.

"Spiers points to Quebec where residents there can refuse meters as long as they cover the costs involved with traditional meter reading . . .

"Hopefully those in power will reflect on this and consider what the community wants," he said."

Letter from Vernon Mayor to Charles Reid

Smart Meter Moratorium Motion and / or Opt Out Tally List
Current Tally: 45
Congratulations and welcome, Squamish #44 and Vernon #45

Vernon Star Article
Vernon Council's Letter to Charles Reid

For links to help organize your own delegation request for a moratorium in your community, begin here.

A growing number of responsive and proactive B.C. Municipal and City Councils are passing motions for moratoriums on mandatory installation of B.C. Hydro's wireless "Smart" Meters as follows:

"According to Bill 23-2008 of the British Columbia Public Health Act, section 83

(1) a municipality must take action when it learns of something that could be harmful to its residents. It must notify the Minister of Health or take immediate action. At its June 27 Council meeting, the City of Colwood, B.C. passed a motion to write to the Minister of Health and, due to the potential for wireless smart meters to cause harm or to compromise security, request a moratorium on mandatory installations of wireless meters. The Council also requested that concerned residents be offered safer alternatives at no cost to them.

B.C. Councils who have considered the above request, and voted in favour of it:

1. Alert Bay
2. Burnaby 
3. Central Saanich
4. Colwood
5. Chawathil
6. Central Kootenay Regional District (RDCK / Nelson /Fortis BC)
7. District of Highlands
8. Duncan
9. Enderby
10. Gold River
11. Hagwilget Village First Nation
12. Invermere
13. Islands Trust (Bowen Island) 
14. Ladysmith
15. Lake Country / Winfield
16. Lake Cowichan
17. Langley Township
18. Maple Ridge (Moratorium declined, Opt Out Request Submitted)
19. Metchosin
20. Nanaimo
21. New Denver
22. North Cowichan
23. North Saanich
24. North Vancouver City
25. Oliver
26. Parksville
27. Powell River
28. Qualicum Beach
29. Regional District of Nanaimo
30. Richmond
31. Saanich District
32. Salmon Arm (opt out with possibility of moratorium.)
33. Sechelt
34. Sicamous
35. Silverton
36. Sooke
37. Squamish
38. Sunshine Coast Regional District
39. Surrey
40. Tofino
41. Ucluelet
42. Vancouver
43. Vernon
44. Victoria
45. White Rock
46.