10th December, 2010
California’s Bellwether ‘Smart Meter’ Fight
Heats Up
The message?
A Wireless Grid Ain’t ‘Smart.’
For a Wise Grid, Put it in the Wires!
Three determined women – two young mothers and an ecofeminist author – risk arrest demanding a moratorium on installation of smart meters and essential technical information describing exactly what the emissions are composed of that are making people sick. But PG&E refused to have police make arrests, people theorized, in order to prevent more publicity about the widely criticized meters and the health problems increasingly associated with them. Many PG&E customers are reporting headaches, dizziness, nausea, tinnitus and heart palpitations that began when the new wireless meters were installed. About thirty demonstrators from throughout the Bay area participated.
In These New Times 