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")

IMPORTANT:

RIGHT AWAY, to keep your analogue meter (if you are lucky enough to still have one . . .), even before you send the following letter, post the
NO TRESPASSING SIGN and/or COPE STOP SIGN, or other visible deterrent for Corix, Hydro's official installer.  Write your address and your name on the sign, along with the date.  Secure it beside your meter AND on your front door. A photo would also help to prove it was there . . . 

Hydro claims they will respect letters and signs for the time being, but very often the Corix installer is not doing so . . .

Also: DO NOT PHONE BC HYDRO to refuse a Smart Meter. This is no longer a wise use of your time, as Hydro simply uses it as an opportunity to promote their Smart Meter Program or convince you that you have no choice.  

You do have a choice. 

To register refusal of a B.C. Hydro wireless Smart Meter, the following letter is useful. It is not guaranteed that B.C. Hydro will not install, but it eliminates the "implied consent" argument that they are using to justify the installation of the meters without notification or permission.

It is recommended that you keep copies for your files, and perhaps post one by your meter.

send 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: Refusal of Smart Meter on my Residence / Workplace

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

Address: ___________________________________________________________

Please accept this as your official notice from this date forward of my absolute refusal to allow the installation of a wireless Smart Meter on my home or premises at

full address _______________________________________________________________

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

Any attempt to install this device on my property or residence will constitute 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 still have authorization to attend at my property for the purpose of reading the non-wireless meter 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 

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

CST's "Doctor's Information Package" is now ready to use.

Citizens for Safe Technology Society has made application to the BC Human Rights Tribunal to represent all those with medical conditions who feel disadvantaged by the forced exposure within their own home or residential complex to wireless emissions beyond their control from Smart Meters.

The following "Advice about How to Obtain a Letter from Your Medical Doctor" explains how to use the "Doctor's Information Package" most effectively. The information in the package can be used to help doctors understand the issue more fully. The resulting letter can then be used as part of CST's application to the BC Human Rights Tribunal.

Once you have received a medical letter from your doctor explaining your condition and advising that you avoid smart meter emissions, please scan and send it by e-mail to Una St.Clair, CST, at una@citizensforsafetechnology.org or fax to 1-866-824-8865. Any further queries, such as a mailing address if you wish to mail your letter, can be addressed to Una St.Clair at una@citizensforsafetechnology.org.

This two-page introduction contains the following:

• Instructions on how to use this package 
• Suggestions for wording to be used by your doctor 
• Contact information

"Dear Neighbours, 

"You have probably heard that Wireless Smart Meters are being rolled out across B.C., although you may not know this is causing serious public concern. On September 30, 2011, the Union of BC Municipalities, (all the mayors and council members of BC), voted for a complete moratorium on the rollout of wireless smart meters until questions regarding health, privacy and cost could be analysed under public scrutiny. The Liberals said they didn't care, and are ignoring all requests from the people for democratic choice. Rich Coleman and Christy Clark have both stated that if you don't want a wireless meter on your house, you will need to pay to move it elsewhere on your property, go "off grid," or leave the province . . . "

This tri-fold newsletter/brochure, one sheet back to back, is designed to print out and distribute.  It will alert friends and neighbours to the "Smart Meter" installations that are taking place in local communities throughout BC. 

In an attempt to outpace opposition, Hydro's Corix installers are working rapidly to install Smart Meters before the majority of us know what is happening. 

Then, either on the brink of installation, or after the fact, people are asking in a panic, "What can we do?" 

Regardless of whether or not we live in houses, apartments, condominiums, town homes or care facilities, there ARE things we can do, in our neighbourhoods.  Definitely, they are better done before the fact than after, but even after the fact there are things that can be done in the longer term.

Hopefully, this newsletter brochure can be a springboard to action.  It can help initiate conversation and awareness on the subject of wireless Smart Meters and answer questions that many people are beginning to have about these devices and the "Smart" grid that will follow.  If you use it as a tool, there is a space for you to write your contact information if you wish.  

First we have to learn the facts and recognize the spin that BC Hydro is using to promote this unsafe technology. Then we need to talk to each other and decide what we can do, together.

Many hands make light work, and two heads are better than one . . .

Best distributed with the No Trespassing Sign and printed, hands-on copy of Non-Consent Letter to Hydro.

"Please be advised that I am legal counsel for the Canadian office and Professional Employees' Union, local 378 (COPE 378). The Union wishes to comment with respect to this Complaint.

"Although the Clean Energy Act limits the jurisdiction of the Commission in some respects in relation to enumerated BC Hydro contracts and capital projects, the Commission's powers and responsibilities remain intact beyond the boundaries of those legislated intrusions.

"In the case of SMI, the limits imposed by the Act upon the Commission's jurisdiction are delimited by the terms of the Smart Meters and Smart Grid Regulation, B.C. Reg. 368/2010. BC Hydro does not require the Commission's approval in order to comply with the specifications set out in that Order in Council. However, if any aspect of the SMI program being implemented by BC Hydro deviates from the Regulation or extends beyond it - for example, by incorporating a feature or capability which is not specified in the Regulation - it requires regulatory approval in the normal course . . .

BCUC Complaint

"We are setting up this blog for victims who are hearing a constant noise in their homes. After reading several blogs related to this particular noise(s), we found that people, in general, are seeking answers as to what is happening to them. One blog was consistent with the descriptors of what we have been describing to the State of Massachusetts. We have confirmed it is a microwave pulsation accompanied by of "pure tones," illegal in Massachusetts and a few other States. Whether proven to be a pure tone or not; it is a nuisance and it is trespassing on and into your home and the source being the utilities. 

"The descriptions that are consistently repeated by victims across the country as well as the world are . . .

Blog includes petition to Attorney General of Massachusetts regarding Smart Meter Program "Opt Out" rights.

Select the welcome page on left to view videos and read useful information about Wi-Fi.

"Unfortunately the Edmonton Public School board along with other school districts, have mandated that Wi-Fi will be installed in 100% of their sites and have not given parents Freedom Of Choice should they not want their child/children exposed to Wi-Fi. Edmonton Public Schools is providing no options for Wi-Fi free sites. Most school sites utilize Wi-Fi that is emitting microwave pulsed radiation during the entire school day."

Access petition via website, or use this direct link to the Alberta Safe Schools Petition to speak for our right to choose a Wi-Fi free school environment for our children.

Delegation presentation given January 23, 2012 in Port Alberni, B.C.  Good model for others . . . 

"While B.C. Hydro is gleefully telling us "Smart Meters will promote conservation, reduce greenhouse gases and give us control of our electricity," what they don't say is that the "us" they are referring to is B.C. Hydro.

"Smart Meters have absolutely nothing to do with conservation, as many of us already know. If B.C. Hydro was really concerned about conservation, that 1 billion dollars of taxpayer money spent to implement the Smart Meter program could have been better spent on incentives to retrofit houses with triple pane windows, more insulation or more efficient furnaces . . .

"We have given up our rights to privacy in many aspects of our lives, but we should never give up our right to privacy in our own home. I am requesting that the City of Port Alberni send a letter on behalf of the Citizens of Port Alberni, requesting a Moratorium on any further installations of Smart Meters until the legal, ethical and health concerns are addressed with full public participation.

"I also request that B.C. Hydro offer those citizens who have health concerns, or who do not wish to have intrusive devices such as Smart Meters, the opportunity to keep their meter or have an electronic meter without a wireless transmitter, with no penalty.

"I urge all to fight this Legislated Tyranny to preserve what democracy we still have in this country."

This flyer is a canvassing tool designed to encourage sharing in B.C.neighbourhoods far and wide. As presented here, it is printable back to back on letter-sized paper. 

If needed, a "large print" version can be obtained by photocopying and enlarging onto an 11"x17" page.

Also, to keep costs low, specify black ink only.  A "bright" yellow is recommended for visibility, but white works perfectly well.

"The Present risk of electromagnetic fields, such as mobile phone radiation, is scientifically untenable. In the official assessments from the World Health Organization (WHO) of the modern, man-made electromagnetic fields' health risks, epidemiology (the study of health-event, health-characteristic, or health-determinant patterns in a society) has had a strongly dominant position.

"From the point of view of theory of science it is not justifiable to establish safety mainly on epidemiology because this is a so-called "soft" approach with significant weaknesses that prevent reliable risk assessment. There are many examples of how epidemiological methods have lead to wrong conclusions . . .