Microwave sickness is becoming more common as wireless radiation exposure increases in our environment. FCC safety guidelines are inadequate & do not protect public health. They do not consider long-term exposure to pulsed modulated non-ionizing wireless radiation at non-thermal levels. Cumulative daily radiation exposure is associated with serious health effects. This I know.
New AMR ERT public utility meters (natural gas meters) are not called "smart meters," yet they do pulse microwave radiofrequency radiation, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, non-stop, just like so-called electric and water (AMI) "smart meters." AMR meters also create what's called "electrical pollution" or "dirty electricity" that has been linked to adverse health effects.
When we asked the Regional Operation Manager of SEMCO Energy (our natural gas provider) why the new AMR meters pulsed over 600 times per hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, he did not know. When we asked him where the pulses transmit to, he did not know. And when we asked how SEMCO was getting around the State and Federal laws that prohibit a radio transmitting devise to be installed on private property without the property owner's knowledge and consent, he didn't know that either, but said he would check with their legal department and get back with us. That was several weeks ago, and we still haven't heard back from him. New AMR ERT natural gas utility meters destroyed my health, beginning with pain in my cell phone ear that I had not felt in about two years. My symptoms did not stop there. I experienced a plethora of odd and debilitating symptoms, until we shielded the meters, wrapping them in lead, and began turning off electric breakers at night, so to sleep in an environment of reduced electrical pollution. Slowly, I've been reclaiming my health. In Michigan, we are trying to get legislation passed that will give every utility customer the choice to keep safe and time-tested analog utility meters, without having to pay extra. If you live in Michigan, please contact your State Representative and ask for their support of House Bill 4916. Thank you! This video shows how aphids react to microwaves from 14 miles away:
My general public comment to the City of Battle Creek City Commissioners on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, went as follows: I met a retired police officer, now a security guard at our State Capitol in Lansing, who advised me that Chief Blocker (the Battle Creek Chief of Police) could help keep unsafe smart meters (AMI and AMR ERT meters) off our homes. I hope that is true! Battle Creek seems to be having a hard time calling new public utility meters "smart meters," as evidenced by this March story: Water Division on schedule with new device installation. Nowhere in the article is the word "smart" used. This chart (above) shows that smart meters and cell phones operate in the same range, 900MHz to 2.4GHz. Perry Hart, Director of Public Works here is Battle Creek has confirmed that the smart meters they are installing for water service operate within this frequency as well. (See page 9 here.) He also explained how the new water meters pulse 257 times per hour, non-stop. (Mr. Hart's presentation explained how the new water meters pulse every 14 seconds, which translates to 257 times per hour.) Unlike cell phones, which can be turned off, smart meters are never "off,' which is why radiation expert Daniel Hirsch says one smart meter may be like being exposed to 50 or more cell phones. We haven't heard it from the Battle Creek Enquirer, yet, but there's been lots of news stories about a new study that links cell phone use to cancer: Scientific American: Major cell phone radiation study reignites cancer questions Physics Today: Wall Street Journal trumpets "explosive finding" on cell phones and cancer TIME: Cell phone-cancer link seen in rat study WNCN in Raleigh, NC: Doctor says cell phone use linked to cancer in rats Oxford University Press: US government's premiere test program finds cancer risk from cell phone radiation: a game-changing global wake-up call
Children are more vulnerable to cell phone and smart meter radiation because their skulls are thinner and smaller, allowing the radiation to penetrate deeper into tissues. Both Commissioner Sherzer and Commissioner Gray have said to me that we need to agree to disagree on this issue. When I agree to disagree with you, my decision basically only affects me. When you (the City Commissioners of Battle Creek) agree to disagree with me, your decision affects every man, woman, and child in Battle Creek. House Bill 4916 (the Utility Meter Choice Bill in Michigan) has fourteen co-sponsors in Lansing, both Democrats and Republicans. Please support this potentially live-saving legislation.
Following is the three minute comment I gave at the December 1st Battle Creek City Commission meeting. The video of the meeting is here. "General Public Comments" begins at about 48:00 and my comment begins at about 53:40.
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I'm here to talk about the wireless technology that is being used by the Water Department, and all over. We are living in rapidly changing times. When I was growing up in Chicago, no one had a cell phone, not even the Moms.
Today, most Moms and children have cell phones.
We are now also seeing more and more schools installing WiFi for wireless laptops and tablets the students use on a daily basis.
There was no WiFi, not even in Chicago, when I was growing up.
And recently we’ve been introduced to smart meters, though not all of the new wireless utility meters are called smart meters. Some are called encoder-receiver-transmitters. But the one thing they all have in common is that they are wireless devices that communicate with cell towers or antennas by sending multiple micro-pulses of radiation throughout our homes, and our bodies, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is what is called continuous low-level exposure.
Cancer clusters have been developing in areas where people live, work, or go to school close to cell towers.
People are developing cancerous tumors in body areas where cell phones are held or stored.
Some parents have sued their child’s school, claiming the WiFi is making their children very sick. Parents are forming independent groups for safer use of technology in schools because they can see the harmful effects wireless has on their children, yet school officials aren't doing anything.
We hear small children describing “flash headaches” while walking by a smart meter, and heart palpitations when opening up wireless laptops in schools.
Current FCC guidelines are based upon the assumption that wireless signals are received from just ONE transmitting antenna at a distance. However, we are no longer exposed to just one transmitting antenna, let alone at a distance.
Within a 4 mile radius of where we are right now, you wont believe how many cell towers. Guess! Eighty-one. There are 81 cell towers and 253 antennas.
We have not gone one generation with the level of wireless technology that is commonplace today. The science is showing that it’s long-term continuous low-level exposure that leads to serious injury in health. See EMFscientist.org
If we are to error in regards to wireless technology, is it not best that we error on the side of caution?
Thank you for listening ~ May We All Truly Be Blessed!
Is it not best that we error on the side of caution?
It has been proven that when we hear something repeated so many times, we begin to believe it as the truth, whether it is true or not. Advertisers know that, and use it as a strategy. And that's what the utility companies have been doing with this whole smart meter agenda, telling the public about all the so-called benefits of this smart meter/smart home/smart grid program, yet they've done little research on the actual health impacts all this wireless technology has. Truth be told, it's really the utility companies that will benefit from these smart meters, not the consumers, as explained here. Those who are hypersensitive to electromagnetic fields, like myself, know there are issues with this new smart meter/smart home/smart grid technology because we can feel it. Our reactions are not always immediate, because there is a cumulative effect, however sometimes the "symptoms" are instantaneous. Human live blood analysis shows that our blood does react almost instantly to the pulsed radiation generated by smart meters:
The minutes to the Battle Creek City Commission meeting are available online after the meeting. Details of public comments are usually shortened down to one or two simple sentences, such as, "Jeanine Deal spoke on the Water Divisions smart meters." What City Commissioners and city employees say is sometimes recorded in much more detail. The November 10, 2015 City Commission meeting minutes give a detailed synopsis of what city employees said about the Water Department's new smart meters, and what the city is calling an "opt-out choice."
The Battle Creek City Commission minutes state (in blue):
"...smart meters have been challenged in Michigan courts and that the challenges have not been upheld."
While that statement may be true, it is not the whole truth about what is going on in regards to smart meters and litigation in Michigan. There's at least three currently open and unsettled lawsuits going on in Michigan right now involving smart meters that could be upheld. So the statement that smart meters have been challenged in Michigan courts but not upheld is actually quite premature. And just the fact that smart meters have been and are involved in litigation in Michigan, and all over the world, is a huge red flag in itself, wouldn't you say?!Would you make a large investment into something that had several open lawsuits against it? Would you continue to expose others to a product that has been and is currently being challenged in a court of law in regards to health, safety, privacy, and Constitutional Rights, among other things? Perhaps you would, if you wanted to "feed" the legal system, or had lots and lots of money (as the utility companies do) and more to gain than to loose, at least at the moment. But if you were a small business owner, you would probably drop the whole smart meter idea like a hot potato and not look back. Cut your losses, apologize to your customers, and move on. The minutes further state:
"...approximately 30% are using radio reading technology (in Michigan)..."
What that means is that for every 10% of smart meter installations in Michigan, at least one of those utility customers has taken someone to court about it.
"Mr. Hart (who is the City of Battle Creek Utility Administrator) stated the read system transmits at 902-928 mhz frequency, similar to baby monitors or garage door openers."
A utility company in Illinois did that also, compared smart meters to baby monitors. You can read about that here, and what was said about that. Perhaps all utility companies are saying that to the customers who question the amount of microwave radiation coming from smart meters. Perhaps that is part of the propaganda they were given in order to buy into this whole smart meter program. The fact is, we haven't gone one generation with baby monitors or smart meters. I don't know about baby monitors, but smart meters have not been subject to independent long-term testing for safety.
Dr. Daniel Hirsch, UCSC Senior Lecturer and radiation expert informs us in his Abstract that the radiation from one smart meter is 50 to 160 times the radiation from one cell phone. Dr. Hirsch takes into account cumulative whole-body radiation exposure, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, something no one else seems to have taken into account. When a radiation expert says that being exposed to one smart meter has the cumulative whole-body effect of being exposed to 50 or more cell phones, is that not cause for concern?
The Battle Creek Water Department has been installing Neptune R900 water meters, similar to the one in the following video. This video shows how frequently this "smart" water meter pulses microwave radiation:
And it is this pulsed radiation that is wrecking havoc with our health. It's important to note that just because you can not feel it, does not mean that it is not also affecting you. What does not affect you today, could affect you tomorrow.
"Mr. Hart confirmed the City has relied upon their vendor's research of the safety of the device..."
The City of Battle Creek has no independent proof of safety of these devices and are relying upon propaganda from the manufacturer that these devices are safe and do not harm us. The tobacco industry used to deny any harm would be caused by cigarettes also. And we all know how that ended up...
The minutes further state:
"...the American Cancer Society has also stated it has not been proven there are cancer causing carcinogens in low frequency radio waves..."
The key words here are, "it has not been proven." Just because it has not been proven harmful does not mean that it is not harmful! The American Cancer Society wasn't warning people about cigarettes at first either because it took a while for the evidence of harm to surface. And if you read the American Cancer Society's page about smart meters here, you will see that they are very vague about the whole thing. They compare smart meters with cell phones and WiFi devices, and state that radio frequency radiation is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as:
"possibly carcinogenic to humans."
"Because RF (radio frequency) radiation is a possible carcinogen,and smart meters give off RF radiation, it is possible that smart meters could increase cancer risk."
So the American Cancer Society actually states on their website that smart meters "could increase cancer risk," yet utility companies are not telling us this. Is that not grossly negligent? The Battle Creek City Commission minutes further say:
"Mr. Hart stated it is very difficult to identify the source of radio waves that may be causing health problems."
While that may be true, it is also true that many people, myself included, were perfectly healthy before a smart meter was installed. Though after installation, that changed. I explain more about my symptoms of electromagnetic hypersensitivity here, and how they were gone for about two years until SEMCO Energy, our gas company, installed two AMR ERT meters. One independent smart meter study concludes:
"...smart meters may have unique characteristics that lower people's threshold for symptom development."
Which means that some people who've never had issues with cell phones or WiFi or any other wireless devices may begin to experience symptoms after a smart meter is installed. At least one other resident in Battle Creek who was forced to take a wireless smart water meter, who did not have any sensitivity to wireless prior to the smart meter installation, does now. That story here.
"Mr. Hart also stated the World Health Organization has documentation on their website stating they have not been able to identify what is causing any perceived damage due to the numerous sources of radio waves in our environment today."
Is that still not cause for concern and caution as well, that there are already "numerous sources" of radio waves in our environment today, so much so that we can not determine what is causing adverse effects? It's kind of like driving through an area where there's already a lot of litter and thinking that it's okay to add to the litter because there's already a lot there and who would know that it was you that littered anyway! The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) since 2005. Like the American Cancer Society's page on electromagnetic hypersensitivity, the WHO's page is a little vague about the subject also, though they do state that more research is needed and:
"The symptoms are real and can vary widely in their severity."
It is very important to note that we are in changing times in regards to wireless technology, and recently there has been an Appeal sent to the World Health Organization, signed by over 200 scientist, calling for increased protection from non-ionizing electromagnetic field exposure, the same type of radiation emitted from a smart meter. This Appeal is based upon over 2,000 peer-reviewed papers on the biological or health effects of non-ionizing radiation, the type of radiation emitted by smart meters. Current standards are out-dated given "the numerous sources of (microwave radiation) radio waves in our environment today." Mr. Hart and the minutes were very unclear about the "opt-out" charges:
"Comm. Sherzer inquired as to how City staff determined the $60 fee."
So at the next city commission meeting, I clarified that it was $20 per month. The minutes further state:
"Mr. Hart stated the charge is based upon the amount of staff time needed to manually read the meters... along with staff time to estimate the read..."
A flawed argument. We weren't being charged an extra $20 per month to have actual or estimated reads on the old analog water meters in the past. Meter reading was included in the water and sewer charges already. And since water bills are not going down with smart meter installation, as confirmed by the Water Department, they will supposedly already be saving money on meter readers for those who don't "opt-out." Those who do "opt-out" just wont be saving them as much money. This is savings they already plan on pocketing, and never intended to pass those savings on to their customers. So in actuality "opt-out" fees are not covering an added expense (because it was there already). "Opt-out" fees are an attempt to recover lost savings that perhaps they were counting on in order to make this whole smart meter fiasco worth it, because smart meters cost about double that of the old analog meters, yet don't even last half as long. So their reason and logic is flawed. The bottom line is the opt-out charge means water customers will be paying more money for less service because they will only be reading the meters four times a year, yet they want to charge us $20 per month more to do that.
When you are electromagnetically hypersensitive, agreeing to pay an opt-out fee is agreeing
to pay someone to NOT harm you.
Is that an agreement you want to become involved with?
And how do you explain giving customers an "opt-out choice" when they were never given the "opt-in choice," as many of us woefully experienced, in the first place? In summary, the new "smart" water meters are:
unproven safe by independent research
showing they damage live blood cells
involved in numerous open and unsettled lawsuits
pulsing microwave radiation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
possibly carcinogenic per the American Cancer Society
If we are to error in regards to smart meters,
is it not best that we error on the side of caution?
~ Thank you for reading ~ May We All Truly Be Blessed ~
In response to my recent correspondence with them, SEMCO Energy Gas Company employees and/or representatives have shown total disregard for my health and how their new AMR (automatic read) equipment has been adversely affecting me, as evidenced by the letter we recently received from Cheryl K. Hachee in Consumer Affairs. Cheryl makes it clear that they don't use "smart meters." They are now referring to their new AMR meters as, "encoder receiver transmitters," or ERT.
The employees and representatives of SEMCO may not call their new meters smart meters, but they do pulse radiation (electromagnetic waves) 10.67 times per minute at 5.86 milliseconds per pulse. That information I received "from the horse's mouth," David Williams, Regional Operation Manager, SEMCO Energy Gas Company. The fact that we have two of their new meters installed means that we are being pulsed over 21 times per minute. Not a biggie if you're not electromagnetically hypersensitive (though electromagnetic radiation is cumulative, and adverse affects may not manifest immediately). However, if you are electromagnetically hypersensitive, as I explained to David Williams on September 9, 2015, (the same email that Chery K. Hachee is now "in receipt of"), life can become extremely uncomfortable. It appears that they don't care. These new SEMCO AMR ERT meters were installed under false pretenses. We were told by the installers basically the same thing that Cheryl states, that the new meters only "wake-up once a month." Maybe they only "wake-up" once a month, but they also pulse 10.67 times per minute, and Cheryl did not deny this, nor any of the other things I stated in my September 9, 2015 email. Cheryl explains how this ERT (radiation pulsing technology) is "integral" to their metering and billing system, and is "required" to receive gas service. And I say, Bullshit. There are old 100% analog gas meters all throughout the city, and those customers are still receiving gas service. Cheryl does not mention in her letter other comments I made in my September 9, 2015 email to David Williams, that she is in receipt of, regarding safety and health affects of their new meters:
And regarding the information
from the manufacturer that you sent. It holds no weight, because it's from the
manufacturer.
The fact is that there are no
independent, third-party, long-term tests done on these automated devices that
PROVE they are safe, while more and more people, every day, are beginning to
experience adverse effects from them, and more and more scientists and medical
doctors are attesting to the ADVERSE biological and health effects from wireless
devices such as the new utility meters.
The fact is that there is an
appeal in front of the World Health Organization, signed by over 200 scientists,
based upon over 2,000 peer-reviewed and published studies. The Appeal asks the
WHO to reevaluate the guidelines based upon the over 2,000 studies that show
adverse biological and health effects. https://www.emfscientist.org/
There's also the BioInitiative
2012 Report, published by 29 authors, MDs, PhDs, and other professionals, that
conclude that "bioeffects are clearly established." http://www.bioinitiative.org/
I'm sure there are more studies
and reports out there about the adverse health effects wireless devices like
your new meters have on the human body, not to mention other animals, the birds,
and the bees, if you want to keep digging. There's several interesting talks
Dr. George L. Carlo gives about the studies he was head of, that clearly proved
adverse health effects from wireless devices, and what happened to him after he
started reporting these findings. The wireless industry has tried to discredit
him for obvious reasons.
Plus the fact that the new
chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, has been active in the wireless industry since
the 1970's, and now he's in a position to regulate the very industry that has
been his bread and butter for over 40 years, explains why the FCC refuses to
reevaluate their standards and guidelines. That's what's called the fox
guarding the hen house. Good for the fox. Not so good for the
hens.
When the only documentation that all of these utility companies have to share, when questioned about the safety of their new equipment, is propaganda from the manufacturer, in other words, from those who stand to profit from the sale of the new meters, is that not cause for concern? In the meantime, we are looking into converting at least one of the buildings here into either 100% electric, or electric and propane, so that we can start with removing one of the AMR ERT 10.67 pulses per minute meters. I did call the Michigan Public Service Commission today (1-800-292-9555), and complained to Ryan there of the adverse effects I am getting from SEMCO Energy's AMR ERT meters. Ryan said that he would have to check with his boss because currently SEMCO doesn't offer an opt-out program. All the more reason for Michigan to pass the Analog Choice Bill, that will allow all utility customers an analog meter (absolutely nothing wireless/radiation/pulsing about it) choice. Here is a video of the kind of gas meters that are installed here, and it shows just how they pulse:
