Stop Smart Meter Rollouts
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We have been informed by Alliant Energy, our Utility Company, that they intend to fill our town with smart meters for both gas and electric service. We have researched and discovered that these meters invade privacy,
(https://smartgridawareness.org/privacy-and-data-security/how-smart-meters-invade-individual-privacy/
are a security risk, emit harmful RF radiation which is damaging to human health. The WHO, World Health Organization classifies this type of radiation as a class 2B carcinogen.
Our small town in rural Iowa with 10,000 residents in Fairfield, IA, is a town largely based in holistic health practices, self improvement, development of consciousness, and organic gardening practices -- a group of people extraordinarily conscious about health and we want to opt-out and keep our Analogs.
There are hundreds of studies available showing harm to human physiology, pets, and nature. Newborn babies, unborn babies, elderly, and immune compromised individuals are at immediate risk with RF radiation. See this youtube link as an example of thousands of studies showing whats really behind all this.
Exec.pdf <http://www.rfreduce.com/robertsblog/Smart-Meter_Ltr-to-Dear-Exec.pdf>
This fight is currently happening world wide with many bills submitted and law suits in process, trying to secure a safe environment for our homes and families around the world. We will not be able to continue this fight without funding.
We have formed a group called Fairfield Safe Meters and are currently fighting on all fronts to keep our safe, Analog Meters. These meters are green, accurate, inexpensive, long lasting, with zero radiation. They also do not use power to operate.
Alliant Energy is refusing to allow us to keep our Analogs and is only offering digitals which create dirty electricity which is as dangerous as RF radiation for human health.
The funds are to pay three full-time volunteers, (an admin person will be hired as soon as there are funds for us all), attorney fees, printing, travelling to the Capitol, lobbyists, writers, all of whom will have the job of informing the population of how to support our success. So far we have sent in close to 1,000 complaint forms to the Iowa Utility Board and Certified Refusal letters to Alliant stating that we only want to keep our Analog meters. There are 3,308households in Fairfield.
Legislators are fighting back by trying to put laws in place by submitting a bill that will eliminate the controlling boards giving them even more control than their current monopoly. See link below for success with this same fight in Ontario: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/01/20/ontario-pulls-plug-on-36000-rural-smart-meters-is-big-energy-imploding/
We have discovered that this battle is a full time job for two individuals minimum to try to accomplish this before they succeed in overruling us. There is no time for our regular work.
We have been supporting this project on our personal resources over the last six months and we are tapped out and are no where near the finish line.
To name a few of FFSM’s accomplishments so far:
The Phoenix Rising meeting and over 455 Certified Refusal letters were mailed to Alliant that weekend! Another 65 or so have been sent since.
City Council meeting. Kathy Warner and a team of volunteers assembled documents for the meeting and met individually with every council person and educated them on the issues. Kathy also met with Ed Malloy many times to explain all the research and findings.
Sent out many emails to keep community informed of every step over the past several months.
Letters to the editor.
Articles in the Ledger.
Resurrected the Kurt Hansen bill with a state senator in the Republican party.
At the recent Democratic Caucuses, we got 3 district areas to submit Official Democratic Resolution Submission forms to put the safe meter issue on the legal democratic platform.
Got the moratorium in place putting a stop to stop exchanging analog meters for digitals.
Complaint forms: we designed the procedure and suggested complaint copy, spent weeks operating a table in Everybody’s and HyVee grocery stores for assisting with completing complaints and refusal letters and answering questions. This was so demanding of our limited volunteer staff time that we set up drop boxes with printed materials and instructions and are monitoring and restocking those daily. Boxes are now at 1) Frontline printing 2) HyVEE 3) Revelations, 4) Everybodys.
It was way more effective w/trained staff at those tables but without donations or enough volunteers, this became impossible (some days Janet Evertsen was there alone and there was much more help needed as Janet is coordinating many facets of this campaign already).
Attended an IUB hearing to understand protocol for future hearing possibility.
Last minute found out about the Attorney General’s Office visit to the Senior Center and prepared detailed documents (including the receipts for about 500 Certified Refusal letters, the folder of reports and studies that had been submitted to the City Council) for that and invited the public. Over 70 people attended the meeting. We sent our scientist, Robert Palma early to meet w/Attorney General’s office privately and he spoke at the meeting. We had the meeting professionally videotaped. The Attorney General’s Office did bring our documentation and videos back to the IUB and the OCA and it started the ball rolling.
Purchased state of the art equipment for measuring all RF and dirty electricity. Travelled to Wisconsin to take the measurements, videotaped, and published on youtube. Video taped live measurements from the Alliant open house and published on youtube.
Secured the contract between Alliant and the city of Fairfield. Had it reviewed by an attorney to see how binding it was and discovered it was not binding.
Secured letters from Doctors about negative health effects of this particular type of RF from their own direct experience with patients.
Sought and received legal advice and clarification from top notch attorneys both in Iowa and other parts of the United States. Measured meters, towers and power stations to discover and quantify the current EMF situation in Fairfield.
We spearheaded contact with the IUB and OCA. We were able to clarify their true roles and found that the IUB and OCA have no agenda whatsoever with the Smart Meter rollout and we discovered they are only for the purpose of customer service and rate regulations. They then explained we needed complaints to the IUB to allow them to intervene on our behalf and we informed Fairfield residents of the same and have been actively pursuing complaints since.
The support will mean that we can establish a safe meter zone for our entire town, setting an example for rest of the state, the country and the world! Even the smallest donations will make a huge difference and we will be so grateful to accomplish this and then go on to teach the rest of the world how to stand up for their rights and protect the safety of our population and planet.
Some other interesting and informative links:
http://www.smartmetereducationnetwork.com/how-to-keep-smart-meter-off-your-home.php
https://www.emfanalysis.com/what-is-dirty-electricity/
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/09/03/electromagnetic-fields-harmful-effects.aspx/ Interview with Dr. Pall, a medical expert on the harmful biochemical impact of RF radiation.
http://healthimpactnews.com/2017/smart-meters-countdown-to-a-national-crisis-of-illness-and-death/
http://healthimpactnews.com/2017/smart-meters-countdown-to-a-national-crisis-of-illness-and-death/ Good review of how S.M.R.T meter radiation effects the heart and other organs
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjCHFMByb9c&feature=youtu.be
Field measurements of Alliant Smart Meters
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/wireless-devices-potential-cancer-risk-says-world-health-organization/
http://eon3emfblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Lais-Vienna-Report-re-RF-DNA-damage.pdf DNA damage cited in a European study
http://www.smartmetereducationnetwork.com/smart-meters-what-they-are-and-what-they-do.php#2a1 Very good technical description of utilities’ claims re: transmission rates and actual findings
http://healthimpactnews.com/2017/smart-meters-countdown-to-a-national-crisis-of-illness-and-death/ Good review of how S.M.R.T meter radiation affects the heart and other organs. Experts on EMF exposure cite that FCC thresholds are too high to limit human exposure to damaging EMF and that smart meters pose a very serious health hazard due to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQJO7cCSQL0
Robert Palma’s presentation to FF city council
http://www.rfreduce.com/robertsblog/Smart-Meter_whitepaper_final.pdf Robert Palma’s white paper to FF community
Other Safety and Legal Issues:
https://smartgridawareness.org/2015/06/29/utility-industry-aware-of-issues-with-digital-meters-for-years/
Smart Meters history of catching on fire http://www.adjunct.diodon349.com/Attack_on_USA/smart_meter_fires_and_explosions.htm
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/smart-meters/smart-meter-fires-and-explosions/https://stopsmartmeters.org/2013/06/21/when-smart-meters-kill-the-story-of-larry-nikkel-details-emerge-of-vacaville-ca-smart-meter-fire-death/
Smart Meters are vulnerable to hacking https://www.technologyreview.com/s/420061/hacking-the-smart-grid/
Smart meters have a history of inaccurate measurements, causing upwards of 50% increases in utility bills:
https://www.iotforall.com/significant-inaccuracies-discovered-in-smart-meters/
Alliant’s proposed opt-out fees are excessive compared to many opt-out fees around the country:
California Judge cancels opt-out fees https://stopsmartmeters.org/2015/04/16/judge-rules-electric-utilitys-smart-meter-opt-out-fees-violate-state-law-psrec-refuses-to-reconnect/
Michigan bans opt-out fees:
http://www.annarbor.com/news/attorney-general-says-dte-energys-smart-meter-opt-out-fees-not-justified/
Vermont bans opt-out fees:
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/vermont-legislature-bans-smart-meter-opt-out-fees/
Arizona rescinds opt-out fees:
https://takebackyourpower.net/smart-meter-opt-out-fees-rescinded-in-arizona/
States with opt-out procedures, majority prohibiting fees:
http://www.electrosmogprevention.org/stop-ca-smart-meter-news/where-smart-meters-are-optional/
Analog Meters are safer and more accurate than Digital or Smart Meters http://www.smartmetereducationnetwork.com/how-to-keep-smart-meter-off-your-home.php
https://www.activistpost.com/2015/07/what-are-reasons-for-smart-meters-when.html
(https://smartgridawareness.org/privacy-and-data-security/how-smart-meters-invade-individual-privacy/
are a security risk, emit harmful RF radiation which is damaging to human health. The WHO, World Health Organization classifies this type of radiation as a class 2B carcinogen.
Our small town in rural Iowa with 10,000 residents in Fairfield, IA, is a town largely based in holistic health practices, self improvement, development of consciousness, and organic gardening practices -- a group of people extraordinarily conscious about health and we want to opt-out and keep our Analogs.
There are hundreds of studies available showing harm to human physiology, pets, and nature. Newborn babies, unborn babies, elderly, and immune compromised individuals are at immediate risk with RF radiation. See this youtube link as an example of thousands of studies showing whats really behind all this.
Exec.pdf <http://www.rfreduce.com/robertsblog/Smart-Meter_Ltr-to-Dear-Exec.pdf>
This fight is currently happening world wide with many bills submitted and law suits in process, trying to secure a safe environment for our homes and families around the world. We will not be able to continue this fight without funding.
We have formed a group called Fairfield Safe Meters and are currently fighting on all fronts to keep our safe, Analog Meters. These meters are green, accurate, inexpensive, long lasting, with zero radiation. They also do not use power to operate.
Alliant Energy is refusing to allow us to keep our Analogs and is only offering digitals which create dirty electricity which is as dangerous as RF radiation for human health.
The funds are to pay three full-time volunteers, (an admin person will be hired as soon as there are funds for us all), attorney fees, printing, travelling to the Capitol, lobbyists, writers, all of whom will have the job of informing the population of how to support our success. So far we have sent in close to 1,000 complaint forms to the Iowa Utility Board and Certified Refusal letters to Alliant stating that we only want to keep our Analog meters. There are 3,308households in Fairfield.
Legislators are fighting back by trying to put laws in place by submitting a bill that will eliminate the controlling boards giving them even more control than their current monopoly. See link below for success with this same fight in Ontario: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/01/20/ontario-pulls-plug-on-36000-rural-smart-meters-is-big-energy-imploding/
We have discovered that this battle is a full time job for two individuals minimum to try to accomplish this before they succeed in overruling us. There is no time for our regular work.
We have been supporting this project on our personal resources over the last six months and we are tapped out and are no where near the finish line.
To name a few of FFSM’s accomplishments so far:
The Phoenix Rising meeting and over 455 Certified Refusal letters were mailed to Alliant that weekend! Another 65 or so have been sent since.
City Council meeting. Kathy Warner and a team of volunteers assembled documents for the meeting and met individually with every council person and educated them on the issues. Kathy also met with Ed Malloy many times to explain all the research and findings.
Sent out many emails to keep community informed of every step over the past several months.
Letters to the editor.
Articles in the Ledger.
Resurrected the Kurt Hansen bill with a state senator in the Republican party.
At the recent Democratic Caucuses, we got 3 district areas to submit Official Democratic Resolution Submission forms to put the safe meter issue on the legal democratic platform.
Got the moratorium in place putting a stop to stop exchanging analog meters for digitals.
Complaint forms: we designed the procedure and suggested complaint copy, spent weeks operating a table in Everybody’s and HyVee grocery stores for assisting with completing complaints and refusal letters and answering questions. This was so demanding of our limited volunteer staff time that we set up drop boxes with printed materials and instructions and are monitoring and restocking those daily. Boxes are now at 1) Frontline printing 2) HyVEE 3) Revelations, 4) Everybodys.
It was way more effective w/trained staff at those tables but without donations or enough volunteers, this became impossible (some days Janet Evertsen was there alone and there was much more help needed as Janet is coordinating many facets of this campaign already).
Attended an IUB hearing to understand protocol for future hearing possibility.
Last minute found out about the Attorney General’s Office visit to the Senior Center and prepared detailed documents (including the receipts for about 500 Certified Refusal letters, the folder of reports and studies that had been submitted to the City Council) for that and invited the public. Over 70 people attended the meeting. We sent our scientist, Robert Palma early to meet w/Attorney General’s office privately and he spoke at the meeting. We had the meeting professionally videotaped. The Attorney General’s Office did bring our documentation and videos back to the IUB and the OCA and it started the ball rolling.
Purchased state of the art equipment for measuring all RF and dirty electricity. Travelled to Wisconsin to take the measurements, videotaped, and published on youtube. Video taped live measurements from the Alliant open house and published on youtube.
Secured the contract between Alliant and the city of Fairfield. Had it reviewed by an attorney to see how binding it was and discovered it was not binding.
Secured letters from Doctors about negative health effects of this particular type of RF from their own direct experience with patients.
Sought and received legal advice and clarification from top notch attorneys both in Iowa and other parts of the United States. Measured meters, towers and power stations to discover and quantify the current EMF situation in Fairfield.
We spearheaded contact with the IUB and OCA. We were able to clarify their true roles and found that the IUB and OCA have no agenda whatsoever with the Smart Meter rollout and we discovered they are only for the purpose of customer service and rate regulations. They then explained we needed complaints to the IUB to allow them to intervene on our behalf and we informed Fairfield residents of the same and have been actively pursuing complaints since.
The support will mean that we can establish a safe meter zone for our entire town, setting an example for rest of the state, the country and the world! Even the smallest donations will make a huge difference and we will be so grateful to accomplish this and then go on to teach the rest of the world how to stand up for their rights and protect the safety of our population and planet.
Some other interesting and informative links:
http://www.smartmetereducationnetwork.com/how-to-keep-smart-meter-off-your-home.php
https://www.emfanalysis.com/what-is-dirty-electricity/
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/09/03/electromagnetic-fields-harmful-effects.aspx/ Interview with Dr. Pall, a medical expert on the harmful biochemical impact of RF radiation.
http://healthimpactnews.com/2017/smart-meters-countdown-to-a-national-crisis-of-illness-and-death/
http://healthimpactnews.com/2017/smart-meters-countdown-to-a-national-crisis-of-illness-and-death/ Good review of how S.M.R.T meter radiation effects the heart and other organs
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjCHFMByb9c&feature=youtu.be
Field measurements of Alliant Smart Meters
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/wireless-devices-potential-cancer-risk-says-world-health-organization/
http://eon3emfblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Lais-Vienna-Report-re-RF-DNA-damage.pdf DNA damage cited in a European study
http://www.smartmetereducationnetwork.com/smart-meters-what-they-are-and-what-they-do.php#2a1 Very good technical description of utilities’ claims re: transmission rates and actual findings
http://healthimpactnews.com/2017/smart-meters-countdown-to-a-national-crisis-of-illness-and-death/ Good review of how S.M.R.T meter radiation affects the heart and other organs. Experts on EMF exposure cite that FCC thresholds are too high to limit human exposure to damaging EMF and that smart meters pose a very serious health hazard due to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQJO7cCSQL0
Robert Palma’s presentation to FF city council
http://www.rfreduce.com/robertsblog/Smart-Meter_whitepaper_final.pdf Robert Palma’s white paper to FF community
Other Safety and Legal Issues:
https://smartgridawareness.org/2015/06/29/utility-industry-aware-of-issues-with-digital-meters-for-years/
Smart Meters history of catching on fire http://www.adjunct.diodon349.com/Attack_on_USA/smart_meter_fires_and_explosions.htm
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/smart-meters/smart-meter-fires-and-explosions/https://stopsmartmeters.org/2013/06/21/when-smart-meters-kill-the-story-of-larry-nikkel-details-emerge-of-vacaville-ca-smart-meter-fire-death/
Smart Meters are vulnerable to hacking https://www.technologyreview.com/s/420061/hacking-the-smart-grid/
Smart meters have a history of inaccurate measurements, causing upwards of 50% increases in utility bills:
https://www.iotforall.com/significant-inaccuracies-discovered-in-smart-meters/
Alliant’s proposed opt-out fees are excessive compared to many opt-out fees around the country:
California Judge cancels opt-out fees https://stopsmartmeters.org/2015/04/16/judge-rules-electric-utilitys-smart-meter-opt-out-fees-violate-state-law-psrec-refuses-to-reconnect/
Michigan bans opt-out fees:
http://www.annarbor.com/news/attorney-general-says-dte-energys-smart-meter-opt-out-fees-not-justified/
Vermont bans opt-out fees:
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/vermont-legislature-bans-smart-meter-opt-out-fees/
Arizona rescinds opt-out fees:
https://takebackyourpower.net/smart-meter-opt-out-fees-rescinded-in-arizona/
States with opt-out procedures, majority prohibiting fees:
http://www.electrosmogprevention.org/stop-ca-smart-meter-news/where-smart-meters-are-optional/
Analog Meters are safer and more accurate than Digital or Smart Meters http://www.smartmetereducationnetwork.com/how-to-keep-smart-meter-off-your-home.php
https://www.activistpost.com/2015/07/what-are-reasons-for-smart-meters-when.html
Organizer
Emily Warwick Kelly
Organizer
Fairfield, IA