This letter can be sent to Hydro and its affiliates if they say, by phone or in writing, that you must meet with them, or accept the smart meter against your request. It can be cut and pasted from this page into your own email, or from the download at the bottom.  E-mail addresses for Cc are also at the bottom of the letter.

Also available: ALERT: LETTER OF NON-CONSENT FOR HYDRO (SMART METER)

smartmeters@bchydro.com and info.utilities@corix.com

BC Hydro Smart Meter Specialist Department                                                Date:___________________

6911 Southpoint Drive,

Burnaby, B.C. V3N 4X8           

Attention: Mr. Charles Reid, Mr. Gary Murphy, Ms. Cindy Verschoor, BC Hydro, Corix Utilities and /or assignees thereof:

Copy (Cc) to

Corix Utilities, 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

info.utilities@corix.com, 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

Copy also to your local Mayor and Council

"You have a government that is micromanaging the message, obsessively. It seems to vet everything that goes out to the media" Margaret Muro, Canadian Science Journalist 

". . . It's so hard to get hold of scientists that a lot of my colleagues have given up," she explained.

"Ms Munro cited another example of research published in another leading scientific journal, Nature, that was published last October.

"An international team including several scientists from the government agency, Environment Canada, set out details of a hole that appeared in the ozone layer above the Arctic.

"Ms Munro said she had called one of the scientists involved who she had dealt with several times in the past. He agreed to speak to her, but said that he had been told that her request had to be put to government media relations officials in Ottawa.

"So I phoned up Ottawa and they just said no you can't talk to the guy. A couple of weeks later, he was available but by then the story had been done. So they take them out of the news cycle," she said.  

"Ms Munro also claims that journalists were denied access to scientists working for the government agency Health Canada last year, when there was concern about radiation levels reaching the country's western coast from Japan following the explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Ultimately, journalists obtained the information they sought from European agencies.

"The Postmedia News journalist obtained documents relating to interview requests using Canada's equivalent of the Freedom of Information Act. She said the documents show interview requests move up what she describes as an "increasingly thick layer of media managers, media strategists, deputy ministers, then go up to the Privy Council Office, which decides 'yes' or 'no'" . . .

"The government has never explained what the process is. They just imposed these changes and they expected us to sit back and take it," she explained.

"Professor Andrew Weaver believes that the media protocol is being used by the Canadian government to "instruct scientists to deliver a certain message, thereby taking the heat out of controversial topics".

He added:  "You can't have an informed discussion if the science isn't allowed to be communicated. Public relations message number one is that you have to set the conversation. You don't want to have a conversation on someone else's terms. And this is now being applied to science on discussions about oil sands, climate and salmon."

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.  Many believe and assert they have done 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")

"We will not force you to have a Smart Meter" say B.C. Hydro Reps.

1) The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom guarantees me the right to liberty to make important personal choices.

2) The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom guarantees me the right to life, liberty and security.

3) The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom guarantees me the right to security from unreasonable search and seizure.

4) The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom guarantees me the right to respect for my private life, to non-disclosure of confidential information.

5) The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees my right to well-being.

6) The Trespass Act of British Columbia - BC 462.

7) The Human Rights Code protects persons from being harassed or discriminated against, and from retaliation should they complain.

Scientific Integrity

Union of Concerned Scientists
Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions

"Federal decision makers need access to the best available science in order to craft policies that protect our health, safety, and environment.

"Unfortunately, censorship of scientists and the manipulation, distortion, and suppression of scientific information have threatened federal science in recent years.

"This problem has sparked much debate, but few have identified the key driver of political interference in federal science: the inappropriate influence of companies with a financial stake in the outcome.

"A new UCS report, Heads They Win, Tails We Lose, shows how corporations influence the use of science in federal decision making to serve their own interests . . .

"Concerns about microwave radiation related to Wi-Fi usage in schools has many parents asking questions regarding long term effects on their children's health.

"Wireless sensitivity is like a peanut allergy you can't see.

"For the people who have it, it's hell. But for everybody else, you're just ruining a really good sandwich.

"And, until 45,000 teachers brought it back to the forefront Monday, most had dismissed the effects of invisible airwaves outright.

"However, the recent outcry by the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association (OECTA) to shelve the usage of Wi-Fi in schools pending more research into wireless technology is causing headaches for many administrators. Much like the headaches, dizziness, nausea, vertigo, racing heart, memory loss and skin rash that parents of children who attend school with Wi- Fi available are claiming their children suffer.

"Parents of children at Mountainview have been very vocal about the issue, after several children exhibited similiar symptoms. However, the board has resisted calls to remove the school's Wi- Fi system.

"The Catholic teachers' call for a moratorium on wireless Internet follows a warning from the World Health Organization in May. The WHO's cancer centre called for more research into the potential dangers of Wi-Fi, noting all radiation from wireless devices could be carcinogenic . . .

Rationale for the Workplace

Smart Meter Moratorium Motion Tally List     
Current Tally: 32
   
Congratulations and welcome, Maple Ridge, #32!
news report

"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." 

   To be continued . . .  

Moratorium Request Update 

"Maple Ridge residents, along with all other British Columbians, should have a choice whether or not they want one of B.C. Hydro's smart meters installed on their homes.

"Maple Ridge council voted Tuesday to send a letter to B.C. Hydro urging the provincial power utility to respect citizens right to opt out of the controversial $900 million project to replace the province's 1.8 million power meters . . .

"There is a strong suggestion these devices are harmful," Bell said at Tuesday's council meeting.

"Some may argue that [cell phones and microwaves] are used daily and emit the same frequencies in larger doses, but I want to point out the public makes choices in regards to ... those items.

"An earlier motion by Bell to call on B.C. Hydro for a complete moratorium on smart meter installation until there is further research into the health effects of the wireless devices was voted down 6-1, with only Bell voting in favour.

"Bell added there are potential security risks from implementing a wireless network from hackers, as well. Her claims of possible health risks from the devices were largely dismissed by the other councillors.

"Coun. Cheryl Ashlie said the motion wasn't well thought out, and that if the District takes a stand on smart meters as wireless devices, it would logically have to extend that policy to ban the wireless devices it requires its own staff to use.

"We issue cell phones, we have fire and police who use [wireless radios], so we would have to extend the moratorium if we believe there are [health concerns]," Ashlie said.

"Once you open that door you have to be prepared to argue it wholly, and I don't think we want to go down that road . . .

Stop Smart Meters Press Conference at BC Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Perry Kendall's office.

Press Conference (Steve Satow) 1 of 3
Tammy Jeske (2 of 3)

Stop Smart Meters Press Conference at BC Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Perry Kendall's office.

Steve Satow (1 of 3) 
Karen Weiss (3 of 3)