Friday, May 27, 2011

The secret life of Michael Peevey

California's top energy regulator rolls with power company executives behind the scenes
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Michael Peevey, California's top utility regulator, attended several trips last year with utility executives.
GUARDIAN PHOTO BY LUKE THOMAS

Inside a legislative hearing room at the state capitol, things were beginning to get uncomfortable. Roughly five weeks had passed since a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. pipeline explosion killed eight and leveled an entire San Bruno neighborhood, and this California Senate committee hearing was an early attempt to get answers.
San Bruno residents who lost loved ones in the deadly explosion huddled in the front row, their eyes fixed on company representatives and agency bureaucrats as they spoke. At the back of the room, a band of immaculately dressed PG&E executives and utility lawyers sat clustered together.
Richard Clark, director of the consumer protection and safety division of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), fielded questions from visibly frustrated state legislators. Sen. Dean Florez (D-Shafter) wanted know why the CPUC hadn't done anything when PG&E ignored an impaired section of the ruptured pipeline even after it was granted $5 million to fix it.
"Did the PUC do any accounting when you gave them $5 million?" Florez demanded. "Do we just give them money and cross our fingers and hope they fix it? Is that what we do? Until some terrible tragedy occurs?"

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

SMART METER ALERT



SMART METER ALERT
CALL
877-743-7378
Ask to keep your Analog Meter
Delay installation of the Smart Meter

PG&E now allows customers to do this until the CPUC votes on the OPT OUT
proposal which will not happen until October 1 at the earliest.  This gives us 6 months to stop the rollout of the Smart Meter

Smart Meters cause inaccurate billing, security and safety concerns and short and long term negative health effects.

For more info see
http://nosmartmeters.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/NOSMARTMETERSSF

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Public Health Physician Warns of Smart Meter Dangers, Stresses Need for Analog Option



Dr. Carpenter states, We have evidence…that exposure to radiofrequency radiation…increases the risk of cancer, increases damage to the nervous system, causes electrosensitivity, has adverse reproductive effects and a variety of other effects on different organ systems.  There is no justification for the statement that Smart Meters have no adverse health effects. “
Dr. Carpenter further advises, “An informed person should demand that they be allowed to keep their analog meter” 
(For those of you already Smart Metered,  demand to have the analog meter restored, call your your utility and your state public utility commission)
BIG THANKS to Dr. Carpenter and to Maine’s Smart Meter Safety Coalition  who “recently caught up with Dr. David Carpenter, a Harvard Medical School-trained physician who headed up the New York State Dept. of Public Health for 18 years before becoming Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Albany, where he currently directs the Institute for Health and the Environment” (www.smartmetersafety.com)


from Emf Safety Network
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?p=3946