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In the News are several recent achievements</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that I believe may be noteworthy.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kindly send us any comments, suggestions or questions you may have concerning the issues</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">addressed in this edition.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yours sincerely,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Michael Payton</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Senior Partner</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Clyde & Co</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">London, England</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">October 2011</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cancer Risk from Cell Phone Usage: As Scientific Knowledge</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Advances, Will Coverage Follow?</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Over 302 million Americans, greater than 96% of the population, use cell phones.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov. Most of us, as well as our children, use our cell phones every day,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">some for hours each day.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Overview</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Concerns have arisen about carcinogenicity of long-term exposure to radio-frequency</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">electromagnetic fields (EMF) emitted by cell phones. When a cell phone is turned on, it</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">searches for a base station, or cell tower, within range to communicate with and connect with</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">other telecommunication devices. Id. Cell phones “emit a low level of radio frequency</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">radiation, a form of electromagnetic energy, from their antenna when they communicate with</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">base stations.” Id. “[T]he FCC has promulgated rules that limit the amount of RF radiation that</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">FCC-regulated [cell phones] . . . may emit.” [Pinney v. Nokia, 402 F.3d 430, 439 (4th Cir. 2005)</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(citing In re Guidelines for Evaluating the Environmental Effects of Radiofrequency Radiation,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">11 FCC Rcd. 15123, 15125 (1996)).]</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Exposure to cell phone radio-frequency radiation is measured by specific absorption rate</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(SAR), which measures the amount of radiation the body absorbs when a cell phone is used.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Holding a mobile phone to the ear to make a voice call can result in high . . . SAR values in</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the brain, depending on the design and position of the phone and its antenna in relation to the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">head, how the phone is held, the anatomy of the head, and the quality of the link between the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">base station and the phone.” [Robert Baan, et al., <i>Carcinogenicity of radiofrequency</i></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>electromagnetic fields</i>, The Lancet Oncology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 624 (July 2011).]</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Recent studies, like their predecessors, have yielded contradictory results and conflicting</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">conclusions. Additional studies are proceeding and there is no doubt that the debate will</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">continue for the foreseeable future.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">While scientists debate the risk, cell phone users have sued manufacturers and suppliers,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">alleging that long-term exposure to cell phone EMF emissions has caused injury. These</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">claimants, however, have faced at least two obstacles. First, most courts have held that their</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">claims are pre-empted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (“TCA”), which granted the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) exclusive authority to regulate human exposure</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to cell phone EMF emissions. Second, claimants who have cleared the pre-emption hurdle</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">have been barred from presenting expert proof on causation pursuant to the strictures of</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharm., Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993) (“Daubert”).</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Manufacturers and suppliers seeking insurance coverage for a defense against these claims</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">notwithstanding the prevailing obstacles to judgment have to date been generally successful,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">as most courts have found that the claims allege “bodily injury”, thereby triggering a duty to</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">defend.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here we present a report on the current state of the scientific debate, a discussion of the preemption</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and Daubert issues and a summary of the duty to defend decisions.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Recent Studies and Reports Continue the Carcinogenicity Debate</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On June 22, 2011, the World Health Organization (“WHO”) released the report of its International</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Agency for Research on Cancer (“IARC”) Working Group, concluding that cell phone EMF</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">emissions should be classified as Group 2B human carcinogens, which are those agents that are</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“possibly carcinogenic to humans.” [Robert Baan, et al., <i>supra</i>, p. 624 (July 2011).]</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The IARC Working Group is comprised of 30 preeminent scientists from 14 countries. Their</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">conclusions were based on their analysis of previously-published reports and studies not</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">additional, original research. Nevertheless, the WHO report does present the consensus view</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of an esteemed body of experts in the field of oncology.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.clydeco.com</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Among the studies considered by the IARC Working Group, and discussed in the WHO report,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">are (1) two brain cancer studies, one published in the Journal of the American Medical</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Association (“JAMA”) and a second published in the New England Journal of Medicine; (2) a</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">study focused on tissue-specific risks to young cell phone users; (3) a nationwide Danish</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">cohort study; and (4) two Interphone group studies.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The brain cancer study reported in JAMA was a case-control study limited to 469 men and</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">women, aged 18 to 80, with primary brain cancer and 422 matched controls without brain</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">cancer. [Joshua E. Muscat, et al., <i>Handheld Cellular Telephone Use and Risk of Brain Cancer,</i></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">JAMA, Volume 284, No. 23, p. 3001 (December 20, 2000).] Reflecting the cell phone usage</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">trends in 2000, only 14% of the cases and 18% of the controls reported using hand-held cell</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">phones. [Id. at p. 3003.] The study concluded that “[t]he use of handheld cellular telephones</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">was unrelated to the risk of brain cancer.” [Id. at p. 3005.]</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The brain cancer study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine was also a casecontrol</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">study, limited to 782 men and women aged 18 and older with intracranial tumors of the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">nervous system, and 789 matched controls with no malignancies. [Peter D. Inskip, et al.,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Cellular Telephone Use and Brian Tumors. </i>344 N. Engl. J. Med., 79 (2001).] Similar to the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">earlier study, 24.8% of the patients and 29% of the controls reported cell phone usage.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[Id. at p. 81.] The study concluded:</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Our results do not substantiate the concern that some brain tumors diagnosed in the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">United States during the mid-1990s were caused by the use of handheld cellular</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">telephones. There was little to no indication of an increased risk of glioma,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">meningioma, or acoustic neuroma associated with any use, cumulative use, or the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">laterality of use of these telephones.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[Id. at p. 83.]</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The study on young cell phone users assessed the potential increased risk to children</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">based on dose and sensitivity, in particular to developing brains. [Andreas Christ, et al.,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Age-dependent tissue-specific exposure of cell phone users</i>, 55 Physics in Medicine and</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Biology 1767 (2010).] This study concluded that (1) exposure of regions inside the brains of</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">young children can be higher by 2-5 decibels (dB) in comparison to adults; (2) exposure to</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">bone marrow of children can exceed that of adults by a factor of 10; (3) brain regions close to</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the surface of the ear showed peak spatial average SAR more than 4 dB higher in children</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">than adults. [Id. at p. 1780.] Thus, in general, children suffer a higher exposure of RF radiation</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">than adults due to dose affected by anatomical proportions. Id.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The nationwide Danish cohort study investigated cancer risk among 420,095 persons whose</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">first cell phone usage was between 1982 and 1995 and were followed through 2002 for cancer</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">incidence. [Joachim Schuz, et al., <i>Cellular Telephone Use and Cancer Risk: Update for</i></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Nationwide Danish Cohort, </i>98 Journal of The National Cancer Instiute 1707 (2006).]</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">While 14,249 cancers were observed in the population, cell phone use was not associated</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with increased risk of brain tumors, acoustic neuromas, salivary grand tumors, eye tumors or</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">leukemias. [Id.] Among long-term users of 10 years or more, there similarly was no increased</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">risk for brain tumors. [Id.]</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The IARC Working Group discounted the Danish cohort and the two case-control studies,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">concluding that they were “less informative” because they “encompassed a period when</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">mobile phone use was low, users typically had low cumulative exposures, time since first use</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of a mobile phone was used was short, and effect estimates were generally imprecise.”</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">[Robert Baan, et al., <i>Carcinogenicity of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields</i>, THE LANCET</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ONCOLOGY, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 624 (July 2011).]</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The IARC Working Group was heavily influenced by the Interphone group studies published in</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010 and 2011. Id. The first Interphone study, published in 2010, was a case-control study of</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2,708 glioma and 2,409 meningioma cases and matched controls. [Elisabeth Cardis, et al.,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Brain tumour risk in relation to mobile telephone use: results of the Interphone international</span></i></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>case-control study, </i>International Journal of Epidemiology 1 (2010).]</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.clydeco.com</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The study concluded that while there was “no increase in risk of either glioma or meningioma .</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. . in association with the use of mobile phones . . ., [t]here were suggestions of an increased</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">risk of glioma . . . , at the highest exposure levels, for . . . tumors in the temporal lobe.” [Id. at</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">p. 14.]</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The second Interphone study, published in 2011, was a case-control study of 553 glioma and</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">676 meningioma cases, and matched controls. [Elisabeth Cardis, et al., <i>Risk to brain tumors in</i></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">relation to estimated RF dose from mobile phones: results from five Interphone countries,</span></i></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Occupational Environmental Medicine 1 (2011).] The study concluded that “there is an</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">increase in glioma risk with high levels of RF dose in people whose brain has absorbed high</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">levels of RF energy from mobile phone use and . . . this risk may only be evident in people</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">who began mobile phone use 7-10 years or more before diagnosis. There is a possibility also</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of similar, but apparently much smaller, increases in meningioma risk.” [Id. at p. 7.]</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Overall, the IARC Working Group concluded that there is “limited evidence in humans for the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">carcinogenicity of RF-EMF, based on positive associations between glioma and acoustic</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">neuroma and exposure of RF-EMF from wireless phones.” [Robert Baan, et al., <i>supra</i>, p. 625.]</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This study supports the theory that long-term, persistent exposure to cell phone EMF</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">emissions may have a link to certain cancers.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Additional studies are underway. In 2009, the FDA nominated cell phone EMF emissions to</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the National Toxicology Program for toxicology and carcinogenicity testing. [<i>Statement for the</i></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, </i>United States Senate, September 14,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2009.] The NTP is conducting such studies on laboratory animals currently, with completion</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">expected in 2014. [<i>Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation Studies</i>, National Toxicology</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Program June 2011.] Other studies are in progress at the NTP, with a similar expected</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">completion date. Id. It is anticipated that these studies will allow the federal government to</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">make future decisions about EMF emission-related health issues, id., and the possibility of</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">more stringent standards exists.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Federal Pre-emption of Cell Phone EMF Emission Injury Claims</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cell phone manufacturers and suppliers facing injury claims in Federal Court have asserted</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that the claims are pre-empted by the TCA.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Pre-emption arises under the Supremacy Clause, U.S. CONST. VI, cl.2, which invalidates</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">state laws that “interfere with, or are contrary to” federal law. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">211, 6 L.Ed. 23 (1824). The Supreme Court has identified three forms of federal pre-emption.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Express” pre-emption arises when Congress expressly states its intent to pre-empt state law.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">See Hillsborough County v. Automated Medical Labs, Inc., 471 U.S. 707, 713, 105 S.Ct. 2371,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">85 L.Ed.2d 714 (1985). “Field” pre-emption arises when “Congress' intent to pre-empt all state</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">law in a particular area may be inferred . . . [because] the scheme of federal regulation is</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">sufficiently comprehensive” or “'the federal interest is so dominant that the federal system will</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">be assumed to preclude enforcement of state laws on the same subject.'” [Id. (quoting Rice v.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sante Fe Elevator Corp., 331 U.S. 218, 230, 67 S.Ct. 1146, 91 L.Ed. 1447 (1947)).] “Conflict”</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">pre-emption arises when state law conflicts with federal law and, although Congress has not</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">displaced state regulation in a given area, “compliance with both federal and state regulations</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">is a physical impossibility”, Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul, 373 U.S. 132, 142-</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">3, 83 S.Ct. 1210, 1217-18, 10 L.Ed.2d 248 (1963), or when state law “stands as an obstacle to</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress.” Hines v.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Davidowitz, 312 U.S. 52, 67, 61 S.Ct. 399, 404, 85 L.Ed. 581 (1941).</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The first case to address federal pre-emption of state law cell phone EMF emission injury</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">claims was Pinney v. Nokia, Inc., 402 F.3d 430 (4th Cir. 2005). The claimants alleged that</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Nokia negligently and fraudulently marketed wireless telephones that emit unsafe levels of</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">EMF radiation without providing headsets. The claimants sought compensatory damages</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">measured by the cost to buy a headset for each claimant and punitive damages. Id. at 440-1.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The court considered whether the claimants' state law claims were pre-empted by the TCA.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.clydeco.com</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The court first decided that the TCA did not expressly pre-empt the state law claims. Id. at</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">456. Rather, the two TCA provisions Nokia relied upon for its express pre-emption argument</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">were limited to the placement of cell phone towers and the “entry of or the rates charged by”</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">providers of cell phone services. Id. at 455.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Next, the court held that the state law claims were “not preempted under the doctrines of</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">conflict preemption and field preemption.” Id. at 456-7. The court “determined that the TCA</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">provides no evidence of a congressional objective to ensure preemptive national RF radiation</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">standards for wireless telephones.” Id. at 458. Further, the court concluded that the relief</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">sought by the claimants would not “stand as an obstacle to Congress' actual goal of</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">establishing a nationwide network of wireless telephone service coverage.” Id. Consequently,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">there was no “conflict” pre-emption. With respect to field pre-emption, the court found “no</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">evidence that Congress intended that state law claims . . . [of the nature presented by these</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">claimants] be swept aside.” Id. at 459. The pre-emption defense was therefore rejected by the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Pinney court.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In Bennett v. T-Mobile USA, Inc., 597 F. Supp. 2d 1050 (C.D. CA. 2008), the claimant</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">purchased several cell phones over the course of three years from a service provider, TMobile.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Plaintiff claimed that cell phone use caused him to suffer “sudden hearing loss in his</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">right ear, vertigo, loss of equilibrium, and other personal injuries.” Id. at 1051. T-Mobile argued</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that the state law claims alleging negligence, strict liability, breach of warranty and false</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">advertising were pre-empted. Declining to follow Pinney, the court held that the doctrine of</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">conflict pre-emption applied to bar the claims.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To allow state claims such as these asserted by Plaintiff to proceed would be to</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">question the judgment of the FCC on the issue of RF emissions standards. Because</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the FCC has determined the optimal level of safe RF emissions and licenses phones</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and service providers based on these levels, a jury verdict declaring these phones</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">unsafe “unquestionably trample[s] upon the FCC's authority to determine the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">maximum standard for RF emissions”.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Id. at 1053 (quoting Farina v. Nokia, 578 F. Supp. 2d 740, 769 (E.D. Pa. 2008)).</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Bennett court did not address whether the claims at issue were also barred by the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">doctrines of express or field pre-emption.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The next case to address the pre-emption question was Murray v. Motorola, Inc., 2009 D.C.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">App. LEXIS 652 (D.C. App. Ct. Appeals Oct. 29, 2009).</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Murray and other claimants asserted a series of state law claims premised on the allegation</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that they developed illness and injury as a result of using cell phones produced, sold or</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">marketed by various cell phone industry defendants, including Motorola.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The court concluded that the state law claims were not precluded under the doctrines of</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">express or field pre-emption, id., slip op. at p. 25, 68 but were precluded under the doctrine of</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">conflict pre-emption. Id., slip op. at p. 38. The court, however, distinguished claims alleging</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">injury caused by cell phones acquired prior to August 1, 1996, holding that such claims were</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">not precluded under the doctrine of conflict pre-emption. Id., slip op. at p. 47-8.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In reaching its decision that the state law claims were subject to conflict pre-emption, the court</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">was significantly influenced by the applicable FCC regulations which require cell phones to be</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">authorized for sale in the United States by the FCC upon certification by the applicant that the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">cell phone will not “cause human exposure to levels of radiofrequency radiation in excess of”</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the limits specified in the applicable FCC regulations. Id., slip op. at p. 28 (citing 47 C.F.R.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">§1.1307(b)(2008); 47 C.F.R. §2.1093 (2008)). In its rulemaking notice, the FCC explained that</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">its RF radiation limits were adopted to “provide a proper balance between the need to protect</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the public and workers from exposure to excessive RF electromagnetic fields and the need to</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">allow communications services to readily address growing marketplace demands.” Id., slip op.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">at p. 29 (quoting 12 F.C.C.R. at 13497, p. 5).</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.clydeco.com</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Murray court also found “persuasive the FCC's argument in [its] amicus brief that verdicts</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that would hold defendants liable for bodily injury caused by cell phones that met the FCC RF</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">radiation limit 'would necessarily upset [the] balance [the agency struck] and . . . contravene</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the policy judgments of the FCC regarding how safely and efficiently to promote wireless</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">communications.'” Id., slip op. at p. 32.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As noted above, however, the court distinguished claims alleging injury caused by cell phones</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">acquired prior to August 1, 1996. Id., slip op. at p. 47-8. “This is so because we read the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Complaints as alleging, in part, that plaintiffs' injuries were caused by cell phones that plaintiffs</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">acquired prior to August 1, 1996 (when the FCC adopted its current regulation . . .)” setting cell</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">phone safety standards. Id., slip op. at 47-48.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The most recent case to address the pre-emption question is Farina v. Nokia, Inc., 625 F.3d</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">97 (3d Cir. 2010). The court agreed with the Pinney court that the relevant TCA provisions did</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">not support express pre-emption. Id. at 120. The court agreed with the other courts that the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">claims were not precluded by field pre-emption.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The court, however, disagreed with the Pinney court and concluded that the claims were</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">precluded by the doctrine of conflict preemption. The court reasoned as follows:</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Farina's claims rest on the allegation that defendants warranted that their cell</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">phones were safe to operate, but that these phones were, in fact, unsafe to operate</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">without headsets because of their emission of RF radiation – despite the fact that their</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">emission levels were in compliance with FCC standards. In order for Farina to succeed,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">he necessarily must establish that cell phones abiding by the FCC's SAR guidelines are</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">unsafe to operate without a headset.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Allowing juries to impose liability on cell phone companies for claims like Farina's would</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">conflict with the FCC's regulations. A jury determination that cell phones in compliance</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with the FCC's SAR guidelines were still unreasonably dangerous would, in essence,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">permit a jury to second guess the FCC's conclusion on how to balance its objectives.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Accordingly, we conclude that Farina's claims are preempted by the FCC's RF</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">regulations. The inexorable effect of allowing suits like Farina's to continue is to permit</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">juries to second-guess the FCC's balance of its competing objectives. The FCC is in a</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">better position to monitor and assess the science behind RF radiation than juries in</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">individual cases.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Id. at 122, 125, 133-4.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Since the Farina and Pinney decisions present a conflict among Circuit Courts of Appeal on</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the pre-emption issue, the Farina claimants have petitioned the United States Supreme Court</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">for certiorari. That Petition remains pending at present. If granted, we could have the final</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">word on the pre-emption defense during the Court's Fall 2011 Term.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Daubert Preclusion of Causation Evidence, and the Affect on Class</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Action Certification</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In order to establish that long-term exposure to cell phone EMF emissions causes “bodily injury”,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">claimants will have to present expert testimony. When expert testimony is offered to support a</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">party's claim in Federal Court, the trial judge is obliged to ensure, under Fed.R.Evid. 702, that</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">such testimony is “not only relevant, but reliable.” Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharm., Inc., 509 U.S.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">579, 589 (1993). In Daubert, the Supreme Court identified a non-exclusive checklist of factors for</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">a trial judge to consider to determine admissibility of expert testimony.These factors include: (1)</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“whether a theory or technique . . . can be (and has been) tested”; (2) “whether the theory or</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">technique has been subjected to peer review and publication”; (3) whether the technique has a</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">high “known or potential rate of error”; and (4) whether the theory or technique enjoys “general</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">acceptance” in “a relevant scientific community.” Id. at 593-4.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.clydeco.com</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In Newman v. Motorola, Inc., 218 F. Supp. 2d 769 (D. Md. 2002), aff'd 78 Fed. Appx. 292 (4th</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cir. 2003), the court relied on Daubert to exclude expert testimony offered by plaintiff to prove</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that use of cell phones causes brain cancer. The court noted a number of concerns. First, the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">literature demonstrated no general acceptance of a relationship between cell phone use and</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">brain cancer. Second, plaintiff's main expert, Dr. Lennart Hartell, relied on his own</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">epidemiological research, but that research did not support an increased risk of brain tumors</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">located on the same side of the head as the cell phone use (ipsilateral), which was the main</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">point of his expert opinion. Third, Dr. Hartell's reports were not peer reviewed. Therefore, the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">court concluded that the plaintiff's expert's opinions on causation failed the Daubert test.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Based on the current lack of consensus in the scientific community, we doubt opinions of cell</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">phone emission EMF carcinogenicity will meet Daubert challenges, at least until a consensus</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">view emerges.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In the class action context, claimants may need to satisfy Daubert before class certification. In</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">American Honda Motor Co. v. Allen, 600 F.3d 813, 815-6 (4th Cir. 2010) the court held “when</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">an expert's report or testimony is critical to class certification…a district court must</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">conclusively rule on any challenge to the expert's qualifications or submissions prior to ruling</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">on a class certification motion. That is, the district court must perform a full Daubert analysis</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">before certifying a class if the situation warrants.” Id. The Supreme Court appears to agree</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with the Fourth Circuit on this point. See Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, 131 S. Ct. 2541,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2553-4 (2011) (noting “[t]he District Court concluded that Daubert did not apply to expert</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">testimony at the certification stage of class action proceedings…We doubt that is so…”). This</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">presents another hurdle to cell phone class action claimants that will be very difficult to</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">overcome given the state of the scientific debate.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Duty to Defend Cell Phone EMF Claims</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In a series of cases, courts have addressed the duty to defend cell phone EMF class actions,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">like Pinney and Farina, in which claimants alleged exposure to radio frequency radiation and</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">sought to require the cell phone manufacturers to supply headsets.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In New York, the court determined there was no duty to defend, because the claims did not</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">seek “damages because of bodily injury,” but, instead, sought “only economic damages</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">measured by the cost of headphones that allegedly would block the allegedly dangerous</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">radiation emitted by cellphones, and, while alleging the risk of physical harm, specifically</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">disclaim seeking anything but the cost of the headphones.” Zurich-American Ins. Co. v.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Audiovox Corp., 294 A.D.2d 194, 741 N.Y.S.2d 692 (N.Y. App. Div. 2002).</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Courts in Louisiana and Texas, as well as the Fourth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">however, have reached the opposite conclusion. Motorola, Inc. v. Associated Indem. Corp.,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">878 So.2d 824 (La. App. Ct. 2004); Trinity Universal Ins. Co. v. Cellular One Group, 2007 WL</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">49667 (Tex. App. Ct. 2007); Ericsson, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 423 F. Supp. 2d</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">587 (N.D. Tex. 2006); Samsung Elec. America, Inc. v. Federal Ins. Co., 202 S.W. 3d 372 (Tex.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">App. Ct. 2006); Zurich American Ins. Co. v. Nokia, Inc., 2008 WL 3991183 (Tex. 2008);</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Northern Ins. Co. of New York v. Baltimore Business Communications, Inc., 2003 WL</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">21404703 (4th Cir. 2003); Voicestream Wireless Corp. v. Federal Ins. Co., 2004 WL 2285720</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(9th Cir. 2004).</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In each of these cases, the courts determined that the claimants alleged present bodily injury,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">or the complaints were ambiguous in this respect, and therefore there was a duty to defend.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In Motorola, the court relied on allegations that class members “are exposed to [radio frequency</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">radiation] which causes physical effects,” to hold that the claimants alleged “bodily injury.”</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Motorola, 878 So.2d at 831, n. 5. In Trinity, the court relied on the allegations that “exposure to</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">radio frequency radiation caused 'an adverse cellular reaction or cellular dysfunction.'” Trinity,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2007 WL 49667, slip op. at p. 3. In Samsung, the court was persuaded by allegations that</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“plaintiffs suffered an 'adverse cellular reaction' or 'cellular dysfunction,' also referred to as</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">'biological injury.'” Samsung, 202 S.W.3d at 377.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.clydeco.com</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Nokia court was influenced by the same allegations, and concluded that “bodily injury”</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">included “biological injury” incurred by the claimants. Nokia, 2008 WL 3991183, slip op. at p. 5-6.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Fourth and Ninth Circuits reached the same conclusion as the Nokia court, premised on the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">same allegations of incurred “biological injury” and “adverse cellular reaction.” Baltimore Business,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2003 WL 21404703, slip op. at p. 6-7; Voicestream, 2004 WL 2285720, slip op. at p. 3.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In Ericsson, the court determined that the underlying complaints were “ambiguous as to</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">whether the class action plaintiffs suffer currently from adverse health effects or injury, or</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">merely have an increased risk of future injury.” Ericsson, 423 F. Supp. 2d at 592. However,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">since “Texas law require[d] the Court to resolve any doubt regarding the duty to defend in</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">favor of the duty to defend, . . . the Court conclude[d] that the underlying complaints allege a</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">present injury of biological and/or cellular effects.” Id. at 592-3. Clearly, the trend favors the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">manufacturers and suppliers on this issue in finding a present duty to defend insureds in cell</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">phone injury claims.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Conclusions and Observations</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Notwithstanding the recent WHO report, the science remains uncertain on cell phone EMF</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">emission carcinogenicity. While the Supreme Court may decide shortly whether these claims</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">are pre-empted under the TCA, should pre-emption fail, Daubert remains a difficult hurdle for</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">claimants, particularly in the class action context. Still, based on the allegations made by the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">claimants, most courts have held that the claims do give rise to a duty to defend. With our</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">culture's dependency on cell phones, more claims are certain to come.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Clyde & Co Worldwide Office Highlight – Dubai</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We have been in the Middle East for over 20 years. Our Dubai office is one of four Clyde & Co</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">offices in the region. The others are in Abu Dhabi, Doha and Riyadh. These offices work</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">together as one unit, ensuring comprehensive regional coverage for our clients. We have 48</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">attorneys and over 150 legal staff in the region and, with a network of correspondents, we</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">service the Middle East, Gulf States and the Indian subcontinent.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Together with Clyde & Co’s global strengths in the areas of aviation, insurance and reinsurance,</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">marine and shipping and dispute resolution, our areas of expertise in the region include:</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">• Banking and finance (including Islamic Finance)</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">• Corporate and commercial</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">• Information and communications technology</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">• Intellectual property</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">• Property and construction</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">• Regulatory</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">These services are underpinned by our outstanding in-house translation and government</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">liaison services.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We act for corporations and multinationals, government bodies, banks and financial</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">institutions, insurers, and oil, gas and power multinationals. Our expertise stretches beyond</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the firm’s core sectors of insurance, marine and transportation, aviation and international trade</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">into infrastructure, hotels and beyond. We also regularly advise clients seeking to establish</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">operations in the region on procedures for registering in Free Zones and offshore centers.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For more information concerning our Dubai and other Middle East Regional offices, please</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">contact Jonathan Silver, Managing Partner in Dubai, at jonathan.silver@clydeco.ae.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">PLC Which Lawyer?</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Middle East firm of the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">year 2010</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Asian – MENA Counsel</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Firm of the year 2010</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and 2011</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.clydeco.com</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Clyde & Co "In The News"</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Clyde & Co named Insurance Law Firm of the Year</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">International law firm Clyde & Co has been named “Insurance Law Firm of the Year” at the annual</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Reactions London Market Awards in July 2011 in recognition of the firm's performance and</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">innovation within the industry.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Clyde & Co senior partner Michael Payton said: "It is a particular satisfaction to have been judged</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and recognised by the insurance market as worthy of this nomination. It was wonderful to be</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">amongst so many well-known insurance practitioners at the awards</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ceremony - a great fillip and encouragement."</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Clyde & Co and Barlow Lyde & Gilbert sign Heads of Agreement</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Further to the commitment to merge shown by the partnership votes at Clyde & Co and Barlow</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lyde & Gilbert on 28 and 29 July 2011, the two firms signed heads of terms on</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">26 August 2011 and will move forward to sign a formal merger agreement. The intention is to</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">complete the merger of the two firms on 1 November 2011 and the name of the combined firm will</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">be Clyde & Co. This merger will make Clyde & Co the UK’s 2nd largest litigation firm.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The combined firm will have 270 partners, over 1,250 fee earners and around 2,250 total staff</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">operating from 27 offices. It will provide clients in the insurance sector with both the broadest</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">business line and geographical coverage and the highest concentration of leading practitioners of</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">any insurance law firm</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Clyde & Co launches in Canada</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Clyde & Co and prominent Canadian insurance firm Nicholl Paskell-Mede announced a formal</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">merger of the two firms. From the 1 September 2011 the Montreal and Toronto offices of Nicholl</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Paskell-Mede began trading under the Clyde & Co banner. The new Canadian offices will benefit</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">from Clyde & Co's strength in the London and global insurance markets while allowing the firm to</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">engage with the significant insurance market in Canada.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">300 attend Clyde & Co and Lloyd’s energy disaster scenario seminar</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Around 300 professionals attended the Offshore Energy Insurance Conference held by</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Clyde & Co and Lloyds in London on 15th September 2011. The event focused on the global</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">challenges for the London insurance market and oil contractors and operators responding to a major</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">offshore energy disaster, in what proved to be a valuable educational exercise for both the London</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">energy market and the oil & gas sector.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Experts from Clyde & Co's offices around the globe analysed a hypothetical scenario set in five</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">different jurisdictions, highlighting the issues and considerations in each case with New York's John</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wood analysing the US/Gulf of Mexico. The timing of the event coincided with the publication the</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">day before of the U.S report regarding the causes of the April 20, 2010 Macondo well blowout being</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">published by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Clyde & Co partners Diane Westwood Wilson and Julio Costa speak at ALTA’s Aviation Law</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Americas</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Leading Clyde & Co aviation partners Diane Westwood Wilson and Julio Costa took to the stage at</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ALTA's Aviation Law Americas, the region's leading legal aviation conference on September 14 – 16</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2011 in Cartagena, Columbia.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Diane participated in a panel discussion on consumer rights, specifically examining the US</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Department of Transportation's (DOT) far-reaching new passenger rights rules whilst Julio Costa, one</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">of the Brazil's leading aviation lawyers, spoke on the subject of mergers and acqusitions in Brazil.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Further information</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If you would like further information</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">on any issue raised in this update</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">please contact:</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kevin M. 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</div>No Smart Meters SFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09479204124007563213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684093513462475974.post-69443572005407156112011-07-04T15:39:00.000-07:002011-07-04T15:49:23.063-07:00'Smart' Meters-A little too 'Smart'?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2QRQ6niCN_kExVvaarhgd5-PUL_XpkzgAR1z3wzV-mjvf54aW9JMVtVBewt06Odu23wlVODxKAvUqaB-KL7nLhSC7SUWw4lgNRmr2SpU08efeyORm3_zXqJPWdPtN6te9vCWyn4ewhfc/s1600/Picture+7.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2QRQ6niCN_kExVvaarhgd5-PUL_XpkzgAR1z3wzV-mjvf54aW9JMVtVBewt06Odu23wlVODxKAvUqaB-KL7nLhSC7SUWw4lgNRmr2SpU08efeyORm3_zXqJPWdPtN6te9vCWyn4ewhfc/s400/Picture+7.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JNFr_j6kdI&feature=player_embedded#at=51"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">WATCH ON YOUTUBE</span></a></div>No Smart Meters SFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09479204124007563213noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684093513462475974.post-8344909755296996212011-06-26T13:48:00.000-07:002011-06-26T13:48:46.852-07:00AN ALERT FROM STOP SMART METERS! PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY<div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn31TCb_FwBm9fG8sKSeWMQ9gmXM_iuiWY0dy0h5_e2wiQGWIKSsk6Yb4Zk7ppu5Jq9jgI_8eHnzTm_pILuAxyE5YXzJQeNubipQxreZ4-cVILkXp3EXR3TO7CmMlpw9wbGMMd9Sf1jVU/s1600/how-smart-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn31TCb_FwBm9fG8sKSeWMQ9gmXM_iuiWY0dy0h5_e2wiQGWIKSsk6Yb4Zk7ppu5Jq9jgI_8eHnzTm_pILuAxyE5YXzJQeNubipQxreZ4-cVILkXp3EXR3TO7CmMlpw9wbGMMd9Sf1jVU/s400/how-smart-.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PG&E has threatened to widely and quickly install 'smart' meters in Santa Cruz County starting TOMORROW (Monday) morning, in violation of local laws, and a consensus amongst all 5 elected local governments that the wireless "smart" meter mesh network is not safe, violates your privacy, threatens your health and is not welcome in our community. Santa Cruz County is one of the few remaining locations in the state without widespread 'smart' meter deployments and thus- one of the only places left for electrically injured people to go. </span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Carpools are being organized from elsewhere in the state to come to Santa Cruz and help support a blockade of the illegal Wellington Energy/ PG&E yard in Pleasure Point, close to the beautiful Monterey Bay. if you need a ride, or can offer one, or if you can offer a place to stay in the County, please contact us at </span><a href="mailto:info@stopsmartmeters.org"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">info@stopsmartmeters.org</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It's possible that demonstrations will be continuing all week. If you can join these or support them in any way, you'd be welcome.</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">WHAT YOU CAN DO</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. Come to 38th Ave. and Portola near 41st Ave. in Capitola. TOMORROW morning at 7am, ready to demand that PG&E and their contractors respect local laws. Bring signs, noisemakers, etc.</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. If you can't come, CALL others who may live closer to show up.</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. Facebook, tweet, e-mail your friends, neighbors--knock on doors- you can link to our site or send them the attached flyer</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. Support the efforts of Stop Smart Meters! with whatever you can afford- our legal, copying, printing and outreach budget is getting stretched these days!! Hundreds of small donations are what keep us going! See: </span><a href="http://stopsmartmeters.org/donate/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://stopsmartmeters.org/donate/</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. Send a letter to your local media, and let them know what's going on. Ask why World Health Organization cancer warnings aren't halting the 'smart' meter program.</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Full details and photos of trucks ready to deploy tomorrow morning: </span><a href="http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/06/25/emergency-mass-protest-called-for-monday-morning-in-santa-cruz/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/06/25/emergency-mass-protest-called-for-monday-morning-in-santa-cruz/</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PRESS RELEASE:</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">BREAKING NEWS SATURDAY MORNING JUNE 25TH:</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Capitola- Despite virtual unanimity amongst all local governments in Santa Cruz County, ordinances in Capitola, Watsonville and the unincorporated parts of the County, a groundswell of popular opposition, a growing commitment to civil disobedience to stop the rollout of “smart” meters, and a threat from the County Counsel that the Sheriff is poised to enforce the law, PG&E and their contractors Wellington Energy have moved back into Santa Cruz, readying dozens of trucks to roll out first thing Monday morning, bringing to a head months of debate and a growing alarm about the number of reports of health problems following installations elsewhere.</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">According to sources inside PG&E, the company has “shock and awe” plans to deploy in Santa Cruz in “blitzkrieg” style, forcing hundreds of installation trucks throughout the community to complete installation within weeks.</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Activists in Santa Cruz have called for an emergency community protest and blockade Monday morning June 27th 7am at the corner of 38th Ave and Portola in Capitola.</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> They are encouraging people to spread the word widely, to bring signs, leaflets, noisemakers, and your anger at PG&E for forcing a dangerous device onto people and wildlife of California. Smart meters emit radiation that has been linked by the World Health Organization to cancer. They allow unprecedented privacy violations within the home. They have also been linked with a number of </span><a href="http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?page_id=1280"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">fires and explosions</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. And that’s </span><a href="http://stopsmartmeters.org/why-stop-smart-meters/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">just the beginning</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">….</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Stop Smart Meters! made the following statement this morning:</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Communities as a whole- not just individuals- have the right to decide for themselves whether to take the risk of accepting 22,000 radiation spikes per day from every meter in our neighborhoods- radiation that is far stronger that common household devices like cell phones according to </span><a href="http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/04/20/daniel-hirsch-on-ccsts-fuzzy-math/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">independent experts</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. We don’t recognize the authority of PG&E and the CPUC to force ‘smart’ meters (what even the World Health Organization has now accepted as a cancer risk) on the community against our will, and against the will of our elected officials. If PG&E is unwilling to accept the will of the community, then the community will give them a fight if that’s what they want. The people will do what it takes to keep ‘smart’ meters out of the County. “</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thanks and See you in Pleasure Point tomorrow bright and early</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Josh</span></div><div style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(Iif you do not wish to receive these occasional alerts, please reply with "unsubscribe please" -- if you know others who would want to receive these notifications, have them e-mail</span><a href="mailto:info@stopsmartmeters.org"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">info@stopsmartmeters.org</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. thank you)</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Badhouse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span>No Smart Meters SFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09479204124007563213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684093513462475974.post-52449190068513097802011-06-22T22:18:00.000-07:002011-06-22T22:20:22.605-07:00Stop Smart Meters! Director Arrested in Capitola Today<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyJKBkV4K5btx1pCa_kxpsK_-TAyPz_RL2ELqJqpMSd6nLRfaVqO8a3j-ZPVJ4-v6OhuKABDoHYtmtBxQdKnquSiYBtFvfubE3G0tuhiTlHLqFotoLL_bcfa5i-NsYKtZ146x1u0Unruc/s1600/Picture-4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyJKBkV4K5btx1pCa_kxpsK_-TAyPz_RL2ELqJqpMSd6nLRfaVqO8a3j-ZPVJ4-v6OhuKABDoHYtmtBxQdKnquSiYBtFvfubE3G0tuhiTlHLqFotoLL_bcfa5i-NsYKtZ146x1u0Unruc/s400/Picture-4.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsiTahuKoNI&feature=player_embedded#at=94">CLICK FOR MOVIE</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PG&E Threatens Installation in Santa Cruz County, as Showdown with Local Governments Looms</span></b></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Capitola, CA—Joshua Hart, Director of Stop Smart Meters! was arrested this afternoon after blocking the entrance to the Capitola PG&E payment center in protest of PG&E’s illegal “smart” meter installations in the County. The County of Santa Cruz, as well as the Cities of Capitola, and Watsonville have adopted urgency ordinances prohibiting the installation of wireless “smart” meters within their jurisdictions. Forty-three local governments throughout the state have formally demanded a halt to the program because of concerns about health, privacy, accuracy, and fire safety. Contrary to what PG&E and the CA Public Utilities Commission claim, local governments have broad rights granted to them under the California Constitution- including banning installation of wireless “smart” meters, deemed by many experts to be a serious health threat. A showdown is looming between PG&E- who says they plan to disregard local government laws and force smart meters onto people’s homes, and local elected officials who are intent upon upholding the law and protecting the public.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hart’s arrest follows another arrest on Saturday of San Francisco resident Amy O’Hair for blocking Wellington Energy installation trucks in her Glen Park neighborhood. The controversy over the “smart” meter program has heated up since May 31</span><sup style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">st</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, when the World Health Organization identified non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation (from “smart” meters, cell phones, and wifi networks) as being “possibly carcinogenic”- in the same category as DDT, leaded gasoline, and chloroform.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“Communities have a right to reject a technology that even the WHO has identified as possibly being linked to cancer- we have a right to be safe in our homes and in our communities. If we have to risk arrest to protect that inalienable right, then that’s a sad comment on the state of our democracy,” said Joshua Hart as he was being led away in handcuffs earlier today.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There have now been more than a half dozen arrests of “smart” meter protesters in California over the past year, numerous acts of civil disobedience, and more than 2000 written complaints of health damage from the wireless meter program. Yet the CPUC and PG&E continue to force the meters down the throats of the public.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hart was charged with disrupting a business and then released, with a promise to appear in court on July 28</span><sup style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 10px; height: 0px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Members of Stop Smart Meters! a grassroots activist group deeply opposed to the “smart” meter program, have vowed to use civil disobedience to halt any further installations in Santa Cruz County. This may not be necessary however, as a recent letter from Dana McRae the Santa Cruz County Counsel to Wellington Energy, the company contracted by PG&E to install “smart” meters, states:</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“…the installation of SmartMeters in unincorporated areas of Santa Cruz County will be in violation of the County’s ordinance, and any person found violating the ordinance will be subject to citation by law enforcement personnel.”</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PG&E has been under fire in recent days for threatening customers in Oakland with disconnection unless they allow the dangerous meters on their homes. “Though the company claims that the threats are isolated to a few renegade employees, there is growing evidence that this is part of a corporate strategy to isolate and intimidate people into accepting the increasingly unpopular DumbMeters.” says Joshua Hart, Director of Stop Smart Meters! “PG&E seems to be claiming that they are more of an expert than the World Health Organization when it comes to deciding what is and what isn’t harmful to human health. Thousands of people have reported serious health damage in California alone. Enough is enough.”<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE8yDpJbGJo&feature=player_embedded#at=118">Youtube</a></div>No Smart Meters SFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09479204124007563213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684093513462475974.post-76325626847614833412011-05-27T17:43:00.000-07:002011-05-27T17:43:15.269-07:00The secret life of Michael Peevey<div id="content-header" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">California's top energy regulator rolls with power company executives behind the scenes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="submitted"><span class="timestamp">05.24.11 - 3:25 pm</span> | <span class="authors"><a href="http://www.sfbayguardian.com/category/author/rebecca-bowe" style="color: #555555; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium; text-decoration: none;">Rebecca Bowe</a></span></span> |</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="mailto:rebeccab@sfbg.com" style="color: #4a9be0; outline-style: none; outline-width: medium; text-decoration: underline;">rebeccab@sfbg.com</a></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><h1 class="title" style="color: black; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><div class="aef-image-infos-title" style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Peevey, California's top utility regulator, attended several trips last year with utility executives.</div><span class="aef-image-infos-credits" style="font-size: 10px;">GUARDIAN PHOTO BY LUKE THOMAS</span></span></span></span></span></h1></div><div class="node node-type-article" id="node-21369" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><div class="node-inner clear-block" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; display: block; margin-bottom: 25px; padding-bottom: 15px;"><div class="content" style="color: #222222; font: normal normal normal 1.05em/normal Arial, sans-serif;"><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">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.</span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">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.</span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">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.</span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"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?"</span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sfbayguardian.com/2011/05/24/secret-life-michael-peevey?page=0,0">Full story at SFBG</a></span></div></div></div></div>No Smart Meters SFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09479204124007563213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684093513462475974.post-21405647481977624952011-05-04T22:54:00.000-07:002011-05-05T22:10:29.654-07:00SMART METER ALERT<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">PG&E now allows customers to do this until the CPUC votes on the OPT OUT</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">proposal which will not happen until October 1 at the earliest. This gives us 6 months to stop the rollout of the Smart Meter</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">Smart Meters cause inaccurate billing, security and safety concerns and short and long term negative health effects.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">For more info see</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">http://nosmartmeters.blogspot.com/</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;">http://www.facebook.com/NOSMARTMETERSSF</div>No Smart Meters SFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09479204124007563213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684093513462475974.post-10628566975679574142011-05-01T12:36:00.000-07:002011-05-01T12:36:52.966-07:00Public Health Physician Warns of Smart Meter Dangers, Stresses Need for Analog Option<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTwiwUeo92CwpK1lNq9GGqzwQwV16q6zEmtsO4yqm4I2Ip1ug4FzBCMZdl5EYh9t85m45oaucEW-7NEzKdg4rFLXeBGaBXq46upLQopj1V7Er1_EikEWGfcrudi4gSozVGBSsdkoMZmz0/s1600/Picture+18.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTwiwUeo92CwpK1lNq9GGqzwQwV16q6zEmtsO4yqm4I2Ip1ug4FzBCMZdl5EYh9t85m45oaucEW-7NEzKdg4rFLXeBGaBXq46upLQopj1V7Er1_EikEWGfcrudi4gSozVGBSsdkoMZmz0/s400/Picture+18.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dr. Carpenter states,</span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></strong><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“</span></strong><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">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. “</span></strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dr. Carpenter further advises, </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“An informed person should demand that they be allowed to keep their analog meter” </span></strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(For those of you already Smart Metered, demand to have the analog meter restored, call your your utility and your state public utility commission)</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><em><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">BIG THANKS</span></strong></em><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> 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”</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(www.smartmetersafety.com)</span></em></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">from Emf Safety Network</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?p=3946</div>No Smart Meters SFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09479204124007563213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684093513462475974.post-32802971293357927242011-04-30T20:59:00.000-07:002011-04-30T21:01:18.719-07:00Smart Meter readings Naperville, IL!:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSC-5y3Zj1A2OI9CK28tz64RLB8rQSZDMGvg3Kut8CCALis5_t9wvvfaIyfzLjxB78u9TFyAOriUrz9YADW_4mXFK_2M8NWeXFT_Oc_slEyqLXVObzKQTvmyj2-GYHvJj0YrE7AhmKCes/s1600/Picture+19.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSC-5y3Zj1A2OI9CK28tz64RLB8rQSZDMGvg3Kut8CCALis5_t9wvvfaIyfzLjxB78u9TFyAOriUrz9YADW_4mXFK_2M8NWeXFT_Oc_slEyqLXVObzKQTvmyj2-GYHvJj0YrE7AhmKCes/s320/Picture+19.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xiv8RVNkZk">Click for Video</a></div>No Smart Meters SFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09479204124007563213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684093513462475974.post-46628902097750794082011-04-20T18:14:00.000-07:002011-04-20T18:14:41.907-07:00Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer’s Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ05sF4bxc0ADR8XUEAFrDD1ieXeOfmhUHdvbi_Pe2A8cj58nW-jNTm8qBo7PBmtrNeF7uRtlCold78AU5dd7SqSIRc1LxMrulLQKMZ4oOAvt7d0DWGVbmtQhbqM7Dn64O54at0RchCa0/s400/Cover_photo-210.jpg" width="264" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blakelevitt.com/_br_electromagnetic_fields__a_consumer_s_guide_to_the_issues_and_how_to_protect__28526.htm">B. Blake Levitt</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a class="QuickLink" href="http://http://www.amazon.com/Electromagnetic-Fields-Consumers-Protect-Ourselves/dp/0595476074/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1199916859&sr=11-1" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Electromagnetic Fields, A Consumer's Guide... is considered the classic in the genre, covering everything from the earth's natural EMF background to all of our man-made artifacts today.</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Excerpt edited by author:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Based on superficial media reports a few years back, many people think that the issue of safety regarding exposures to electromagnetic fields has been settled in favor of EMFs and that we have nothing to worry about. But nothing could be farther from the truth. Researchers in bioelectromagnetics and biophysics have continued to observe alarming studies across a range of frequency exposures that are common in our everyday lives, especially with wireless products such as cell phones, cell towers and wireless laptop computers. The American press is largely unaware of this new body of research, coming primarily from European countries.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The human race has never before in its evolutionary history been exposed to such fields on a continuous basis, and there are serious mounting concerns about the effects not just on individuals but on our entire ecosystem. Since the turn of the last century and increasingly since the early 1940’s with the development of radar during World War II, the rapid growth of radio, TV broadcasting, and especially the new wireless infrastructure needed to support all manner of wireless devices, has surrounded us in a veritable sea of artificially produced electromagnetic fields all with a presumption of safety that many now think should never have been made. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the light spectrum alone, there is so much artificially generated light on earth today that a person can literally read outside at night in almost any major city. By anyone’s reckoning, that’s an altered environment and a nascent area of study has developed to look at the effects of light-at-night not just on humans but to other species as well, many of which are exquisitely sensitive to low-level electromagnetic fields. Many people who are born and raised in urban areas never get a real glimpse of natural starlight or experience the backlit silver luminescence of the winter landscape when there is snow on the ground and a full moon in a clear night sky. Instead, whole generations now experience night light as the grotesque red-orange glow of sodium-vapor street lights, the same color that used to alert distant neighbors that a huge fire had broken out.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A mere fifty years ago, none of this was so. The earth today is literally blanketed with a range of artificially generated frequencies throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. The radio/microwave frequencies have proliferated at an alarming rate and continue to do so, unchallenged by our regulatory agencies. And most environmentalists do not understand this for the serious, complex pollutant that it surely is.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For a look at how the meter installers are trained and descriptions of these dangers, such as arcing, visit: Stop Smart Meters! Exclusive: Interview with the Wellington Energy Whistleblower </span><a href="http://ansible.causes.com/external/redirect/eyJzaGFyZF9pZCI6NDg3LCJyZWRpcmVjdCI6Imh0dHA6Ly9zdG9wc21hcnRtZXRlcnMud29yZHByZXNzLmNvbS8iLCJyZWNpcGllbnRfaWQiOjg3NjYwMDB9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://stopsmartmeters.wordpress.com/</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you want to protest smart meters, and live near San Bruno, CA arrive early to connect with others coming for the same reason. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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On March 10, the PUC directed PGE to develop an alternative to Smartmeter installation, in response to the massive upheaval and objection against the Smartmeters that has emerged throughout California (over 35 local governments, including Berkeley, have banned or called for the banning of these Smartmeters, pending further study). PGE came up with a plan last Thursday (March 24). But in their plan, they have ignored what people have been calling for, that is, a non-installation that would leave in place the old analogue meter. Instead, PGE has proposed a modified form of Smartmeter installation. In place of an opt-out plan, it proposes a minor modification of the original plan. But as a minor modification (rather than a non-procedure), it will be associated with major charges to customers. And therein lies a serious element of extortion. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's how it would work. There would be a fee schedule attached to the Smartmeter. Those who do not want a Smartmeter would have to pay a fee up front to have the Smartmeter's radio function deactivated, then submit to having a monthly fee added to their bills (of somewhere between $20 to $50), and finally pay an "exit fee" when and if they move out of the residence to have the Smartmeter's radio function reactivated. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The primary complaint about these Smartmeters is that they are unhealthy, and there are hundreds of stories of ailments now on record, along with accumulating experimental evidence concerning this fact (see Cindy Sage's "Sage Report"). They also create domestic insecurity because they are hackable from outside, and constitute an invasion of privacy, by collectiing data about one's personal life and movement as represented in one's electricity usage. To that extent, the proposed fees for deactivation of the Smartmeter constitute a "protection racket." PGE is saying to people, "we plan to install something in your house that is possibly injurious to your health, to your domestic security, and to the sanctity of your privacy, and if you do not want us to do that, you will have to pay us money." That is an extortion scam, under the laws of any state in this union. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PGE doesn't seem to know how to stop scamming the people of California. It has scammed us with Prop 16, with its claim to a mandate for the installation of Smartmeters, with its claim that gas pipeline records are missing, and now, with its proposal for a bogus Smartmeter opt-out option. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Prop 16 was a scam insofar as it was presented as a democratizing regulation. PGE claimed that the proposition would give people a vote on whether to have public power rather than PGE. But we already had such a vote. What the proposition would have done was effectively take it away by requiring a two thirds vote on whether to replace PGE or not. In other words, it would have fairly assured PGE of monopoly control of our electricity. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Smartmeters are not mandatory according to federal law. The Energy Act of 2005, which initiated the installation of Smartmeters, only requires that they be made available to those customers who might want them. But PGE has said, up until this week, that they are mandatory, and must be put in place to complete the power grid they are building. Now they are willing to have people opt-out of the grid, but still must take the Smartmeter, albeit unactivated. If they are willing to live with unactivated Smartmeters, then they should also be willing to live with unreplaced analogue meters. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In San Bruno, before the explosion, there were phone calls by people who smelled gas in the air. PGE did nothing, having put its money into trying to pass Prop 16. Now 8 people are dead, and PGE is complaining that it has no records of the pipelines, let alone the complaints or the gas leak reports. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Finally, PGE has come out with this bogus opt-out plan. What the anti-Smartmeter movement has been demanding is that a Smartmeter not be installed at all if the customer does not want it. On top of the complaints that Smartmeter microwave emissions are unhealthy, invasive and hackable, what has enraged most people is PGE's autocratic attitude, its anti-democratic stance that everyone must take a Smartmeter and like it, regardless of the electro-smog that Smartmeters create for every urban environment. Deactivating the Smartmeter would obviate the health and hacking problems associated with them. But then, one would have to trust PGE's word on deactivation. And few people in the anti-Smartmeter movement would council one to trust a corporation as deadset on scamming as PGE. But at this juncture, whether people trust PGE or not has become a seconary issue, an academic point. What is primary is the "protection racket" character of PGE's bogus opt-out proposal. If racketeering was not their thing, they could just leave the analogue meters in place, at no extra charge. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is not, of course, their only example of felonious behavior. To the extent PGE refused to properly maintain its gas pipelines in San Bruno, or respond to residents' reports of gas leaks, as required by state law and regulations, it is guilty of negligent homicide with respect to the eight people who died in the explosion. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The PUC has to pass on PGE's proposal, so we have some time to present opposition to it. But perhaps this is also the time for us to seriously consider shifting to public power, with local elected boards and an elected directorship that would represent and listen to the people with respect to the people's health, safety, and privacy. Neither PGE nor the PUC seem to be capable of doing these things.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div>No Smart Meters SFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09479204124007563213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684093513462475974.post-82123796658673489872011-03-28T17:59:00.000-07:002011-03-28T17:59:52.304-07:00The Problems With Smart Grids: Dumb and Dangerous<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td align="left" colspan="2" valign="top" width="70%"><span class="small"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">by B. Blake Levitt and Chellis Glendinning </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="createdate" colspan="2" valign="top"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">22 March 2011</span></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Culture Change note: </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As if you weren’t getting enough radiation: now comes really bad news in the form of smart grids. GE -- the designer of Fukushima nukes and 23 nukes in the U.S. like Fukushima's -- is the largest manufacturer of Smart Meters in the world. The con job continues. The System is out to get us. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- JL</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">How is it that so many intelligent, inside-the-beltway environmentalists are buying into an eco-health-safety-finance debacle with the potential to increase energy consumption, endanger the environment, harm public health, diminish privacy, make the national utility grid more insecure, cause job losses, and make energy markets more speculative?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Answer: by not doing their homework.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Welcome to the Smart Grid -- a government-funded money machine capable of intruding into every aspect of our lives. Smart Grid technologies -- initially funded to the tune of $3.4 billion through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and slated to cost $11 billion through 2011 -- are enough to make even die-hard liberals demand a claw back of misspent tax dollars.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On the surface, Smart Grids </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sound</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> ‘green’ -- with promises of saving energy, creating new power-line corridors run on wind and solar, way-stations to power-up electric vehicles, energy-efficient upgrades to an aging power infrastructure, and real-time customer knowledge of electricity use.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And there’s the enticing communications factor: a nationwide high-speed broadband information technology barreling down high-tension electric corridors called Broadband-Over-Power-Lines (BPL). What could be more perfect for communicating facts about the planet, funding enviro-candidates, pushing legislation, and organizing Earth Days?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But few who actually study how these new systems function want anything to do with them. Other than those who stand to make enormous profits and the physicists or engineers who dream up such stuff, Smart Grids are giving knowledgeable people the willies. </span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> a Smart Grid?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These days the word “smart” is attached to anything even marginally digital -- and indeed it’s an effective marketing tool because who wants anything dumb?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But is the Smart Grid really </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">smart</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The problem: smart metering will turn every single appliance into the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">equivalent of a transmitting cell phone</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, and this at a time when public concern about the safety of exposure to the radiofrequency radiation (RF) of wireless technologies is on the rise. Heads up: that’s every dishwasher, microwave oven, stove, washing machine, clothes dryer, air conditioner, furnace, refrigerator, freezer, coffee maker, TV, computer, printer, and fax machine.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The average U.S. home has over 15 such appliances, each of which would be equipped with a transmitting antenna. While older models can be retrofitted, General Electric (GE) and other appliance manufacturers are already putting transmitters into their latest designs, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is already giving out tax credits.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Meanwhile, people who don’t want to use such appliances won't be able to deactivate the wireless component without disabling it and voiding warranties. Citing “electricity theft,” it could also be illegal to do so.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yet, not one safety concern regarding the cumulative effects of 24/7 exposure to RF radiation seems to have occurred to the backers of Smart Grids. And this is despite the fact that all appliances will transmit wireless data with peak power bursts far above current safety standards - at frequencies between 917 MHz and 3.65 GHz in the ultra-high frequency/microwave ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, several times a minute.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And that’s just the indoor part. All transmitters inside your home or office will communicate with a Smart Meter attached to the outside of each building. [1] That meter, in turn, will transmit at an even higher frequency to a central hub installed in local neighborhoods. In what are called “mesh networks,” signals can also be bounced from house-meter to house-meter before reaching the final hub. So exposures will not just be from your own meter, but accumulating from possibly 100-to-500 of your neighbors’ as well.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That’s a hefty barrage of radiation.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Some gas, water, and electric utilities are now using such smart networks, each with its own metering system and separate exposures -- creating a multi-frequency wall of radiation that, in the history of living creatures, is unheard of.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In addition, the meters and the antennas will act as transceivers, allowing both you via mobile phone or computer -- and take note: your utility company -- to remotely control your appliances. According to Jenny Anderson and Julie Creswell writing in the New York Times, one such system in the Midwest already allows the utility to cycle furnaces and air conditioners on and off every 15 minutes, with the stated purpose to reduce peak-loads on electric grids.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On closer scrutiny, Smart Grids look like another Build-It-Now-Deal-With-The-Consequences-Later fiasco. At a time when health concerns about the safety of cell phones, antennas, and Wi-Fi hotspots are mounting around the globe, Smart Grids will require literally billions of new transmitters, each pumping “electrosmog” into the environment -- for which there will be no mitigation, no conscientious objection, and no escape. </span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We Already Know a Lot about RF and the Environment</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Living creatures are fantastically sensitive to low-level, non-ionizing radiation that includes everything from visible light to the earth’s natural electromagnetic fields. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Birds, butterflies, fish, marine mammals, bees, and other insects are particularly sensitive to the earth’s natural electromagnetic background, using it to guide their migrations, sense of direction, circadian rhythms, food-finding, and reproductive activities. Soil bacteria are also tuned to the natural currents of the planet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But human-made radiation creates different exposures -- with unusual signaling characteristics like digital pulsing, phased array and saw-tooth waveforms, and at much higher power intensities than anything found in nature. RF is actually a form of energetic air pollution -- and if air were legally considered “habitat” like water and land, RF might be regulated differently.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Studies show that myriad wildlife abandons terrain when cell towers are installed. Cows have increased cancers, lower milk production, agitation [see </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595476074/counterpunchmaga"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Electromagnetic Fields</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">], immune system disorders, more mastitis, miscarriages, and birth defects in offspring near cell towers. Birds with nests near antennas display lower reproductive rates, and chicks are born with birth defects. In simulations of whole colony collapse disorder, bees have disappeared entirely when transmitting cell phones were placed next to their hives. It is thought that RF interferes with their navigational abilities by coupling with a natural magnetic material called magnetite in bee abdomens.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Meanwhile, hundreds of studies done with laboratory animals found numerous cancers, immune disorders, and increased mortality from chronic, low-level exposures. This body of work should make us ponder the accuracy of the data -- and humaneness -- when biologists attach RF transmitters to elk, marine mammals, big cats, and other species to study them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Trees also endure die-back near towers. Whole forests near broadcast antennas in Europe have suffered. Military-weapons designers have long used treetops with high moisture content as waveguides for missiles.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Some of this work goes back six decades in bioelectromagnetics and biophysics journals -- and is available for any curious environmentalist to see.</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">… and We Know about RF and Humans</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Research on RF and human health dates to the 1940s when World War II’s radar revealed infertility and cataracts in military personnel.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">David O. Carpenter, MD, MPH, is the director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the State University of New York at Albany, School of Public Health. Along with EMF/RF consultant Cindy Sage in California, he co-edited the 2007 BioInitiative Report, which calls for significantly more stringent RF exposure standards than now exist.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Environmentalists may know Dr. Carpenter, who blew the whistle on PCB contamination in farm-raised salmon. He is also an expert on the biological effects of electromagnetic fields. To him, the decade-long, 13-country World Health Organization’s 2010 Interphone Study confirms what previous reports and many experts have been saying all along: RF exposures at current levels are </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">already </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">unsafe.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">According to Interphone, talking on a cell phone for 1,640 hours over a 10-year period -- the equivalent of 30 minutes a day -- increases an adult’s risk of malignant glioma brain cancer by 40%. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">“While this [Interphone] study is not perfect,” Dr. Carpenter said, “it should serve as a warning to governments that the deployment of new wireless technologies may bring risks to the public that are widespread, involuntary, and increase long-term health care costs.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">His assessment </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ipso facto </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">includes Smart Grids.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Over 70 studies have found effects at frequencies with very low-power intensity, many with implications for human health. Fifteen studies report effects among people living 50-to-1500 feet from a cell tower -- including cancers, immune system effects, fertility problems, heart arrhythmias, miscarriages, sleeplessness, dizziness, concentration difficulties, memory loss, headaches, skin rashes, lowered libido, fatigue, and malaise.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And many of these symptoms mirror what some people are reporting within days of Smart Meters installed at their homes.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In addition, several studies report increases in the permeability of the blood-brain barrier, which protects brain tissue from bacteria, viruses, and toxins. One study found increases in stress markers in human saliva near cell towers. Also reported are calcium ion changes in cells -- with implications for the ability to metabolize. Other studies link exposures to Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig Disease, and Parkinson’s.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In fact, every system of the body appears to be sensitive to low-level electromagnetic fields -- and why not? Living cells are electromagnetic systems. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Research by Magda Havas, Ph.D., of Trent University in Canada, and U.S. epidemiologist Samuel Milham, M.D., links something called “dirty electricity” with diabetes, malignant melanoma, and cancers of the breast, thyroid, uterus and lung. Dirty electricity is an industry term that describes a multi-frequency exposure when higher frequencies like RF couple with the lower frequencies running along power lines. BPL (Broadband-Over-Power-Lines) is 100% dirty electricity -- that’s how it functions -- and people barraged by it can now measure RF radiation </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">emanating from their light sockets. </span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Of special concern are people with implanted medical devices like deep-brain stimulators for Parkinson’s, some pacemakers, insulin pumps, and in-home hospital equipment. The radiofrequency interference (RFI) inherent to Smart Grids can cause such equipment to go haywire, or even to stop. And RFI from ambient exposures has caused wheelchairs to go off peers or into traffic; automatic ignition switches in cars refuse to start until cars are towed to RF-free blocks; and surgical beds have jumped during operations.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">RFI is also suspected in sudden acceleration of automobiles. </span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Low I.Q. for Smart Grids and Government</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Think of the static on your radio. Now imagine Smart Grid’s multiple frequencies overlapping with animate objects … like your brain. The UHF used in Smart Grids couples best with brain tissue.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Several federal agencies actually do have a stake in RF safety, but the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) standards are the only ones in effect in the U.S. A major problem is that the FCC regulates only short-term, acute, high-intensity, thermal effects in humans, while no criteria exist to protect wildlife.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And there’s more. FCC standards only regulate for whole-body exposure, not for specific organs -- like brain tissue which absorbs energy differently. Plus, FCC allowances are averaged over 30 minutes. With Smart Grids such time-averaging makes the peak pulses that blast for a fraction of a second when first activated vanish on paper.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These are holes through which the Queen Mary could sail.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">According to Richard Tell, an electrical engineer formerly with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- in a 2008 report on Smart Grids for Hydro One Networks, Inc./Toronto -- antennas on appliances may transmit at a density of .18watts, each at ballpark 4.5 seconds per hour. But external meters on houses transmit at around 1 watt at less than 2 minutes per hour.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Such figures may sound low -- until the use of many appliances at the same time and exposures from the neighbors’ meters is lumped in. Nowhere in utility estimates are such peak pulses factored -- which, Tell has said, can be 20 times higher or more.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Still, he notes, the radiation from Smart Meters is 15,000 times </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">lower</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> than what FCC standards allow.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Too, the industry claims that meters transmit every four hours -- but engineers like Stephen Scott of EMF Services/California measure spikes every few seconds, especially from banks of meters attached to housing and office complexes, while others have measured firing between 9-and-15 times a minute.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Utilities don’t release numbers for peak pulses, but one estimate by Southern California Edison -- since voided for P.R. reasons -- puts peak pulses at 229,000 microwatts per square centimeter at eight inches from the transmitter. That means if you sleep next to a wall with a smart appliance on the other side, strong UHF signals could be spiking several times a minute all night long -- </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">right into your brain.</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Compare that to cell phones that emit approximately 250-to-300 microwatts per square centimeter when placed directly against the head.</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vampires and Cyber Attackers Make the Honor Roll</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For decades, knowledgeable environmentalists have advised people with remote-control appliances to unplug them because of “vampire” energy. Plugged-in remotes are never completely “OFF”; otherwise they wouldn’t be able to receive the signal to turn back “ON.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So what will happen to our aggregate energy use when </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">all </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">appliances become smart vampires? No proponents thought to ask that question.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Though supposedly “secure,” Smart Grids can be penetrated by both wired and wireless networks. In August of 2009, hackers robbed 179,000 Toronto Hydro customers’ names, addresses, and billing information from their e-billing accounts. Security consultant Mike Davis of IOActive, Inc/Seattle has shown how easy it is to install computer worms that can take over the whole grid, and such worms can be programmed to alter billing information, gather information on electricity use for sale to third parties, or shut down hundreds of thousands of households.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ross Anderson and Shailendra Fuloria at Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory note that hostile government agencies or terrorist organizations could bring whole countries to their knees by interrupting electrical generation. More so than traditional grids, they stress that Smart Grids create a new strategic vulnerability as the cyber equivalent of a nuclear attack. Smart Grids are also easy to sabotage with simple jamming devices.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And if the problems aren’t human-created, nature could step in. The sun’s normal 11-year sunspot cycle -- ramping up right now, promising to pump sporadic blasts of electromagnetic energy toward earth -- could wreak chaos upon Smart Grids.</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dumb: Privacy Gone, Liability Shifted, Billing Errors Galore</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Privacy is an issue as well. When the utility company records home energy use in real time -- with data held at a central hub, potentially accessible from a hacker’s laptop –- the knowledge that you are not home becomes available.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Plus, do you really </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">want</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> the utilities remotely controlling your appliances?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And what about liability? Although grid engineers claim the systems are encrypted, encryption often fails. Imagine the utility -- or even a passing cell-phone user -- inadvertently turning on your oven when you’re on vacation. Or shutting off the furnace on a subzero night. For insurance purposes, who is liable? What about civil rights violations? Or the legal ramifications of a utility partnering with the police? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the purest sense, Smart Grids offer new opportunities for electronic trespass. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then there are the billing errors. Some customers in California have seen their bills triple -- from $200/month to $600 -- when Smart Meters were installed. After a class action suit was filed against Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), that utility admitted that 23,000 of their Smart Meters “might” be defective, though they denied they were responsible for the billing errors. </span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dumb is as Dumb Does</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Smart systems can wreak havoc with electronics too. People are complaining of ceiling fans turning on in the middle of the night, speeds spontaneously changing, paddles reversing direction, and circuit boards burning up. A few meters have exploded. Others have fried electronics. Fires have started. In New Zealand firefighters report 422 fires in 2010 involved with Smart Meters.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oddly, given such dire safety issues, neither U.S. utilities nor their experts seem capable of answering simple questions. At a public forum in Sebastopol in 2010, PG&E pulled its speakers when they didn’t get the format they wanted -- all questions in writing and in advance. Then, at a subsequent gathering, PG&E sent two experts -- Michael Herz and Leeka Kheifets -- neither of whom knew how often meters send or repeat RF signals, called the “duty cycle.” The two could not answer what the exposure would be for an apartment complex with banks of multiple meters, nor answer technical questions about peak-signal strength. And they didn't know the make or model of the meters so that people in the audience could look up the information. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One Sebastopol activist, Sandi Maurer, said in frustration: “How can we trust a company to deploy such a massive RF installation on every home, if they can’t even answer basic safety questions?”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But not all utilities are rushing forward. In 2010 Dominion Virginia Power delayed a $600-million program because Virginia’s State Corporation Commission questioned its economic wisdom, noting that the savings to ratepayers would be less than the rate increases needed to pay for the build-out. Hydro One/Canada came to the same conclusion in 2007, and last year lawmakers in the Netherlands struck down a bill that would have made Smart Meters mandatory. The U.K. is reconsidering a smart metering system as well, and in 2009 the European Parliament ordered member states to study the economic feasibility of Smart Grids.</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Electricity = Big Bucks</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All the while private, largely unregulated hedge funds have been entering energy markets, betting on the potential financial bonanza. It’s the big players who stand to profit, of course -- with your tax dollars going to the likes of GE, IBM, Siemens, Intel, Texas Instruments, AT&T, Verizon, Motorola, and other behemoths.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">GE is the largest manufacturer of Smart Meters in the world. It has signed contracts with CenterPoint Energy and Grid Net to deploy WiMax-enabled radios for use in Smart Meters. WiMax is the fourth generation network that was earmarked by the FCC and the Obama administration to bring wireless Internet to rural areas -- so clearly the technologies are moveable pieces, depending on who owns the chessboard.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But it’s the taxpayer-customer who gets the double whammy: underwriting the infrastructure via tax dollars; enduring rate hikes and medical bills -- and then there’s the burden of having to buy new appliances.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Plus, for citizens, real-time metering reveals when you wake up, go to work, make dinner, do the laundry, use the computer, go on vacation. While proponents see real-time knowledge in the hands of consumers as a form of empowerment, they ignore the gorilla-in-the-room: tiered pricing. Today, many utilities set flat, state-regulated rates for kilowatt hours, but tiered pricing will change that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Critics say that tiered pricing penalizes the elderly, self-employed, unemployed, homemakers, and those with small children -- all of whom use more energy during the day. But a darker possibility exists: a utility could create special billing tiers </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">just for you.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> In other words, if you work the evening shift and cook dinner at midnight, your rate could be highest when everyone else’s is lowest.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then there’s mandatory shut-offs for people who don’t pay their utility bills -- after which the unfortunate customer will have to buy a prepaid wireless-enacted electric meter like a prepaid phone card. Fantasy? Such a system was enacted in South Africa in the 1990s.</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Inside-the-Beltway Enviros</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Before the Obama administration even took office, their pre-transition coordinator for climate and energy policy, Carol Browner, met with IBM CEO Sam Palmisano.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Browner was the director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Clinton and is now Obama’s coordinator for climate and energy policy, while IBM has worked with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation think-tank in DC to develop three focus areas: increased broadband access, digitized medical records, and Smart Grids.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">According to </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Wall Street Journal,</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Palmisano told Browner that a $10 billion investment was needed to jumpstart Smart Grids. Palmisano also claimed that Smart Grids would create 239,000 new jobs -- with half of those resulting from start-up businesses. But his promise was not computed against the jobs lost, such as hundreds of thousands of unemployed meter readers. Nor did he consider the fact that new information technologies are typically seen as a way to consolidate through </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">fewer </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">employees.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Other former Clinton Administration officials on board for Smart Grids include Al Gore -- because of supposed lower carbon emissions -- and Reed Hundt, chairman of the FCC in the 1990s when that agency championed massive auctions of the public airwaves for cell-phone technology.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hundt went on to become co-founder of Frontline Wireless and Sigma Networks. Sitting on several corporate communications company boards, including Intel and China Telecom, he is also co-chairman of the Coalition for the Green Bank, a capital-raising nonprofit that is lobbying Congress for more Smart Grid money -- </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">through environment committees</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> in Congress.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Food and Drug Administration and FCC have a stake in Smart Grids, as do the EPA and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). But neither EPA nor FWS has the funding or manpower to address the RF effects of Smart Grids or consider the effects of a new infusion of radiation into the environment. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has oversight over FWS. Salazar was a U.S. Senator (D-CO, 2005-to-2009) before he left to join Obama. He was also Colorado’s Attorney General from 1999 to 2005 and gets low grades from environmentalists as one of a handful of Democrats to vote against setting limits on offshore drilling and global warming.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And he is no stranger to RF politics. A go-around on RF’s health and environmental effects raged from 2000 to 2006 in Colorado. At issue was a high-definition TV tower to be erected on Lookout Mountain near Denver, overlooking a community already burdened by one of the country’s largest antenna farms. After rancorous public hearings, the county board voted against the new tower. But Salazar attached a midnight rider to another bill right before Christmas recess pre-empting local decision makers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Steven Chu is Obama’s Secretary of Energy -- the agency from which Smart Grids originate. He is former director of the DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and professor of Physics and Molecular Cell Biology at the University of California. He has also held positions at Stanford University and AT&T Bell Laboratories -- all of which develop/deploy RF technologies. He is now Obama’s Secretary of Energy, and in 2009 Chu issued a statement telling the states to take the federal stimulus money and not stand in the way of Smart Grids.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But perhaps the biggest lack of intelligence lies in the energy and environment committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Smart Grid legislation first passed in 2007 as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act under the Bush administration. Additional legislation was contained in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 at the House Committee on Energy & Environment, formerly chaired by Henry Waxman (D-CA). A companion bill was in the Senate., while in 2010 twelve bills were considered, some of which were revived in 2011. Everyone, including the Committee of Environment and Public Works -- formerly chaired by Barbara Boxer (D-CA) with a grid-related subcommittee chaired by Bernard Sanders (I-VT) -– has had a hand in Smart Grids.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now some Republicans, especially Tea Party activists who view Smart Grids as massive big government intrusion, may be fighting Smart Grid proposals -– a situation that is creating an odd alliance between the extreme right and left-leaning activists who find themselves on the same side.</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Smart Grids -- Boondoggle or Economic Stimulus?</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2010’s federal appropriations for Smart Grids was $11 billion. But some financial analysts say it will take over $900 billion over the next two decades to upgrade high-tension lines, meters, central control facilities, and substations. In addition, they say to truly digitize and digitalize grids, it will cost hundreds of billions more, into 2030, because every utility’s computer network will need to be upgraded, new renewable-energy sources will be needed to plug into new access points, and recharging stations and power lines will need to be built. Proponents brag that the construction will be a bonanza.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But Smart Grids may be little more than a Trojan Horse donned in a “green” hat. After all the government mandates and stimulus money for Smart Grids, a veritable gold rush ensued -- with utility companies, hedge funds, meter vendors, patent owners, and colossi like Google and Verizon vying for taxpayer bucks.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In fact, few jobs were created.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ironically, environmentalists are also pushing for Smart Grids without studying the environmental/health impacts or even calculating if such systems will save energy. Plus, provisions in the stimulus package exempt Smart Grids from National Environmental Policy Act review and allow federal preemption for siting new high-tension corridors through environmentally sensitive areas. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But the biggest enviro-irony is that most Smart Meter models don’t “run backwards”; if you install solar panels or other renewable-energy sources and want to sell energy back to the grid, without very expensive additional equipment the new metering makes that impossible.</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">People Are Getting Smart</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Connecticut Light and Power is currently petitioning the Department of Public Utility Control to allow Smart Meters to be placed on 1.2 million homes, over the objections of the state’s Attorney General George Jepsen. A pilot program of 10,000 such meters found no energy savings in 2009, he said, but would cost ratepayers $500 million.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maine has begun a statewide Smart Grid project -- over citizen opposition. Smart Grids already exist in parts of Virginia, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, and the Midwest, while PG&E in California has installed several million meters on homes and businesses; 73% of buildings in Alameda County already have them. As of June 1, 2010, the California Public Utilities Commission reports 2,000 health-related and 1,500 non-health-related complaints. The PG&E executive in charge of the Smart Meter program, William Devereaux, was discovered infiltrating activist groups opposed to Smart Grids. He was fired, and the utility admitted to monitoring online groups to track their strategies.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">California customers continue to sign petitions, organize calling campaigns, form neighborhood groups, hold forums, throw protests, get arrested for blocking utility trucks from neighborhoods, petition legislators, sue the state, and threaten to go off the grid. Many communities have called for ‘opt-out’ campaigns, insisting that PG&E allow old meters to remain or be wired to phone lines thereby avoiding the RF component. Over 30 communities, including several large counties have now passed either resolutions or actual ordinances banning Smart Meters and the number grows daily.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In 2010 Assemblyman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) requested that the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) evaluate health effects. CCST issued a report in January, 2011, giving an “all-clear” that ignited more citizen anger. Experts who had been asked to contribute to the report later said that the report’s conclusions were not supported by the evidence presented and that their input was ignored. Marin County Supervisor Charles McGlashan has called for state hearings -- with his county board declaring that the state should shut down all Smart Meters until billing, health, and safety issues are resolved. It was recently discovered that Smart Meters aren’t even Underwriters Laboratory (UL) certified -- something required under most state codes.</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">High I.Q.’s in Europe</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In 2007, Germany's Environment Ministry issued a warning to German citizens to avoid wireless technology when possible and return to cabled means of communication. The French national library banned Wi-Fi in libraries when librarians became ill. And the European Environmental Agency called for action to reduce public exposure to radiation from mobile phones, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, and other antennas.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In 2008 the European Parliament proposed publicly displayed maps of RF-contaminated areas so people could avoid them, while the U.K.’s Association of Teachers and Lecturers came out against Wi-Fi in classrooms.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sweden has declared some beaches and public buildings RF-free areas where cell phones and wireless computers cannot be used so that people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity -- a form of environmental allergy that Sweden classifies as a functional disability -- can take a breather from contamination.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Individuals have also rallied. Spanish activists hold an annual International Day Against Electromagnetic Pollution. British and Irish citizens have taken to civil disobedience, bulldozing down cell towers. And Israelis have torn down cell towers with their bare hands and chased landlords who lease rooftops to tower companies through the streets.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All the while, a truly intelligent way to help an aging infrastructure </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">does</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> exist. Using closed cables, fiber optic boasts no environmental RF exposures, no dirty electricity, is resistant to sabotage and weather disruptions, and provides TV and high-speed Internet. For $11 billion, the U.S. could bring fiber optic to every home just as Japan has done.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And some towns aren’t waiting. Chattanooga, Tennessee already has a municipally owned fiber optic network. The community of Dunnellon, Florida is proposing a fiber-optic system for every home and business -- without increasing taxes. Meanwhile, Google is seeking prototype communities for a fiber-optic system that could possibly be licensed for utility metering. Unfortunately, Google has also wandered into wireless smart metering too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The fact is: Smart Grids are dumb. Given known biological effects of RF -- together with the use of financial resources better spent on true sustainability -- this new roll-out adds yet another threat to the planet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But, in this current stampede toward everything “green,” many environmentalists are flunking the I.Q. test. We all need to smarten up.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>No Smart Meters SFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09479204124007563213noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684093513462475974.post-54573109021924085352011-03-22T20:48:00.000-07:002011-03-22T20:48:35.999-07:00CPUC MEETING IN SF THURSDAY<div class="MsoBodyText2" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ALERT--THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER!! *****CPUC MEETING IN SF THURSDAY*****</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">CALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY! INVITE YOUR CITY COUNCILMEMBERS AND COUNTY SUPERVISORS!</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Individuals and organizations opposing the rollout of ‘Smart’ Meters in San Francisco and elsewhere in California will be gathering at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) meeting at 505 Van Ness Avenue (at McAllister, near City Hall) in San Francisco </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">this Thursday, March 24</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> at 9am</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> to testify at their morning meeting. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now is the perfect time to encourage your local elected officials to attend the CPUC meeting to demand that the Commission immediately halt further installations in the state and hold public hearings on health impacts of smart meters- OPT OUT IS SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH!</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Governor must also remove Michael Peevey from the Commission immediately.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Peevey is a former utility executive with Southern California Edison -- the classic fox watching the hen house, a man who has made the CPUC into a laughing stock and a lapdog to the industry.<b></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText2" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So CA Edison</span></span></b></div><div style="font: 27.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"the project will literally provide a living laboratory"</span></span></i></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The following shows the governmental attitude toward the public re: the smart grid - and they are up front about admitting they are experimenting on us.</span></span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: #64f925; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">VERY IMPORTANT: US Dept of Energy allots Recovery Funds to Southern CA Edison to use Irvine, CA as a LIVING LABORATORY FOR SMART GRID EXPERIMENTATION. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE AND IS THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG. I SUFFER DAILY AND AM BEING USED AS A LAB RAT FOR THE SMART GRID PROJECT IN CALIFORNIA.</span></span></b></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Amount of Award $39,621,208</span></span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THIS STORY IS HUGE AND WOULD WIN A PULITZER PRIZE IF DONE WELL ... SMART METERS ARE UNSAFE, EXPERIMENTAL, AS IS THE SMART GRID. WE DO NOT APPRECIATE BEING EXPERIMENTED ON, ON OUR OWN PROPERTY, WITH TERRIBLE HEALTH EFFECTS THAT CAN BE LETHAL, DAILY. EVERYONE NEEDS TO LEARN ABOUT THIS AND DEMAND A SAFE ANALOGUE SYSTEM THAT WILL NOT CAUSE HARM.</span></span></div><div style="color: #274faa; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/RecipientReportedData/pages/RecipientProjectSummary508.aspx?AwardIdSur=99423&AwardType=Grants"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/RecipientReportedData/pages/RecipientProjectSummary508.aspx?AwardIdSur=99423&AwardType=Grants</span></span></a></span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 19.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY</span></span></b></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Southern California Edison Company (SCE) is proposing to conduct an end-to-end demonstration of a grouping of advanced Smart Grid technologies we believe will be needed to meet state and federal policy goals for the year 2020. What sets this particular project apart is SCE’s experience with advanced Smart Grid technologies gained through the DOE-co-funded Avanti distribution circuit, synchrophasor development and Edison SmartConnectTM smart meter program. Rather than just a “shallow” demonstration and examination of a few technologies, the ISGD will be a “deep vertical dive” that will more closely replicate and test all of the interlocking pieces of the end-to-end Smart Grid. This proposed demonstration will take place on a section of SCE’s grid from transmission through distribution to customer premise devices. </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thus, </span></span></b><span style="font: normal normal normal 22px/normal Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the project will literally provide </span></span></b></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 22px/normal Arial; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">a living laboratory</span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> for accurately assessing the interoperability of, and interaction between, all of these various Smart Grid technologies and systems working at the same time. The ISGD will be deployed in the City of Irvine, an ideal demonstration site typical of most heavily populated areas of Southern California in climate, topography, environmental concerns and public policy issues.</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> This demonstration is “shovel ready” in that it will utilize existing distribution facilities and all required state matching has already been approved in previous SCE proceedings for General Rate Case, Energy Efficiency, Demand Response and Edison SmartConnectTM. Project Objectives First, the ISGD project will allow SCE, its partners and the DOE to verify the viability of Smart Grid energy technologies and cyber security when deployed in an integrated framework. Second, it will provide a means to quantify the costs and benefits of Smart Grid technologies in terms of overall energy consumption, operational efficiencies, and societal/environmental benefits. Finally, the ISGD project will allow SCE, its partners and the DOE to test and validate the scaleability of the several Smart Grid elements tested into other regions of the country. Project Description and Participants SCE’s ISGD project is a comprehensive demonstration starting with CAISO operator deep distribution situational awareness using phasor measurement and then extends beyond the substation to evaluate the latest generation of distribution automation including universal remote circuit interrupters (URCI), looped 12 kV distribution circuit topology, and advanced voltage control sensing and self-healing technologies. This ISGD scope continues into the home, by demonstrating the integration, monitoring, control and efficacy of the home area network (HAN) and consumer devices such as smart appliances, electric vehicles, energy storage and photovoltaic solar generation. Tying all this together is the Secure Energy Network (SENet) which will enable end-to-end interoperability and cyber-security, both of which are essential to Smart Grid development and adoption across the region. SCE’s project team is a combination of industry leaders each providing essential expertise. The team includes: Boeing, General Electric, SunPower Corporation, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), ITRON, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, and University of California Irvine. Expected Results This project will demonstrate a scalable model of a Smart Grid System that can be used to validate the interoperability of emerging NIST and NERC standards for future Smart Grid systems and applications, including standards for implementation, integration, communications, cyber-security and interoperability. This project will also produce measured results on all benefits as outlined by the DOE in Appendix A of the FOA, and will help provide a blueprint to build the Smart Grid workforce of the future. </span></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfT2nfIn8uo&feature=player_embedded#at=64">Click here for Clip.</a></div>No Smart Meters SFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09479204124007563213noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684093513462475974.post-50542866788989347842011-03-11T11:06:00.000-08:002011-03-11T11:33:16.736-08:00Options for Opting Out!<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">If you do not want PG&E to replace your analog utility meters with wireless Smart Meters, or if you have heard about Smart Meter problems yet are uncertain whether you want a Smart Meter, but you</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">want the CPUC to provide you with </span></span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">real choices </span></span></i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">then </span></span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">CALL</span></span></i></b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Badhouse Light; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION </span></span></b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tell the CPUC Commissioners that you want the choice to </span></span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">keep </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Arial Rounded MT Bold; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the existing Analog meters or</span></span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Sans'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">FIBER OPTICS</span></span></i></span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, (the healthier alternative</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">to wireless meters).</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Contact:</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">CPUC PRESIDENT MICHAEL PEEVEY</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Chief of Staff, Carole Brown</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in office (415) 703-2971</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">COMMISSIONER MIKE FLORIO</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ernie Menendez, Administrative Assistant</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in office (415) 703-1840</span></span></span></div>No Smart Meters SFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09479204124007563213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684093513462475974.post-34278655308617778512011-03-07T23:03:00.000-08:002011-03-09T11:00:48.333-08:00Demand an Immediate Moratorium.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe-SYCzYB65MrjUEBFGInxdCOrPiZJIdNGVJFgxcDiRY8M48vDeFvw9TC6yLBku1D5E5RmL_TXalnVf-6tMbeHm3qKQmbXh9EWYWIRB9126T-tAjzlzg3-SYvgdoQ-z9d8cUn0H-5sU3A/s1600/the-scream.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe-SYCzYB65MrjUEBFGInxdCOrPiZJIdNGVJFgxcDiRY8M48vDeFvw9TC6yLBku1D5E5RmL_TXalnVf-6tMbeHm3qKQmbXh9EWYWIRB9126T-tAjzlzg3-SYvgdoQ-z9d8cUn0H-5sU3A/s640/the-scream.jpeg" width="426" /></span></a></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Smart Meters are...</span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">promoted as benefiting mankind</span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but are actually instruments of torture</span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">said to be a helpful technology </span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but are actually weapons </span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that are used everyday on us</span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">supposed to help with global warming</span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but are actually harming and </span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ending the lives of humans</span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">provided by our tax dollars</span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but steal all quality of life</span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">said to benefit the planet</span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but really harm all life </span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">supposed to be safe</span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but are actually an experiment on us all, </span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with a dangerous technology</span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that they knew scientists warned about, </span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">researchers showed to be unsafe, and others </span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">complained about, all over the world</span></div><div style="font: 20.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">they did it anyway</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">costing our government 3.5 billions dollars of wasted money that will bring only illness and need replacement</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">mandatory - even if we are sick from them or at risk - if we are elderly, pregnant, a child, a diabetic, have a pacemaker, are environmentally ill, we must have one. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We don't matter anymore.</span></b></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the worst expression of the fall of our country's integrity, the end of compassion, the evidence of the stupidity and lack of concern of those who make decisions at the highest governmental levels.</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the evidence that our country is no better than the ones we have criticized in the past ... how are we different than Saddam Hussein, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Joseph Mengela...? When we cause deliberate, immediate harm to our most vulnerable citizens, how is this different? When we place everyone, all living beings at grave risk, and harm millions now, what does that show?</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">How did we come to this point where we no longer care and would harm "the least of these", making them die a slow, torturous death.</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When did we think it was ok to destroy all quality of life in this nation - is it only greed and stupidity that drives us now?</span></div><div style="font: 22.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We were promised help, and instead, we received death in a new little package on the walls of our home.</span></b></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I never thought my country would come to this. It has.</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I never thought that I could be tortured in my own home by the utility company with the government helping. I am.</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">CPUC:</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING. THINK. STOP THE DEPLOYMENTS. THE EVIDENCE IS THAT YOU </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ARE</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> HARMING PEOPLE. I AM ONE OF THEM. I CANNOT STAND LIVING WITH ONE OF THESE SMART METERS ON MY HOME, IT IS TOO PAINFUL, YET YOU TELL ME I MUST HAVE IT? THAT IT WILL BE TURNED UP WITH 8 TIMES HIGHER EMISSIONS SOON - THAT THE RADIATION MUST COME INTO MY HOME, IT IS DESIGNED FOR THAT? THAT MY DOCTOR IS WRONG? THAT I CANNOT BE SICK? THAT YOU HAVE NOT MADE THE BIGGEST ERROR IN THE HISTORY OF OUR NATION? THINK. STOP KILLING US. WE WANT OUR HUMAN RIGHTS BACK. I WANT THE SMART METER OFF MY WALL, WITH CPUC ORDERS TO DO SO, THIS WEEK. THINK. ACT.</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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