If you live in British Columbia and you do NOT want a smart meter attached to your home, then you need to physically lock down your existing analogue meter to prevent the Corix installers from switching it over to a smart meter when they come to your neighbourhood. (Just make sure the meter reader can still read the dials on your old meter.)
A posted sign may NOT be sufficient protection. Corix installers have been disregarding posted signs and contravening direct verbal instructions from residents all over Vancouver Island.
Read my earlier posting for more details on this issue.
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COLLAR THIS! For those with very little time to wait or no skills to build, if you can act quick enough then call Pat at 1-250-335-2528. http://www.smartmeterlock.com
Leave an order for a hardened steel plain grey painted analog meter collar.
Don’t worry if you don’t reach him. He is busy welding. Just leave your name, number and your shipping address and ask him to expedite if Corix is due very soon in your area. (The installers know what they are doing is wrong so they are being secretive and no one knows really when they street or road is due for mass install)
Order as many welded hardened steel plain ordinary meter collars as you and your neighbourhood and family may need for all residences.
He ships them and if you pay more he can make it faster delivery.
Why not get a family pack or a neighbourhood watch pack?! He is a welder. He goes on trust. I know a woman who has a vacation home in the area he lives in. He went and installed it for her for $30 and she paid him later. But remember, she DID pay him – by cheque. He probably needs that form of payment not credit card.
PLEASE Don’t break the trust chain.
Whatever you do just be sure to pay him the $25 or $30+shipping.
It makes sense to share the cost of a multiple order of collars among friends, relatives, neighbours .
Your health, your children, your pets, all pollinators, all the birds bees butterflied bats and your life are all worth it.
He donates all cash above costs to the preschool where he lives.
There is even a 2nd welder there also named Pat who also makes them but details are not as clear for this option.
As for installing the collar?
You use one directional screws to install.
If needed it also helps to get a person who knows how to do it for you. Easy application.
Bear in mind you are a majority shareholder in BC Hydro. The analog meter is YOURS. Some people even have receipts for purchase still in their files.
So securing the analog meter is the same as theft prevention by using a tamper proofing tool.
Take back your power and hang on to your meter.
This collar will also buy you time to plan for whatever next steps. Security stops anxious worry and gets rid of feelings of vulnerability/ It also gives you the way to plan for a more aesthetic solution such as to enclose the entire meter except the face of it and to design a meter “birdbox” style with a small opening around the collared meter once the meter itself is secured, maybe with some house co-ordinated appealing looking enclosure box. Just leave the face visible to read the meter.
So far it is still against the law for a monopoly electrical supplier to cut off the electricity for anyone who has proof of payment that their energy bills are up to date. You are not stealing electricity. There is no mandate for WIRELESS METERS in the BC CLEAN ENERGY ACT. Don’t forget to secure you gas and water meters as well. Those too are slated for smart meters. Be smarter than all of this. Act now.
The B C Supreme Court ruled against the police being able to act as judge and jury regarding road side suspensions.
Part of suspension law struck down
Judge rules review process for suspended drivers inadequate, unconstitutional
Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Part+suspension+struck+down/5794275/story.html#ixzz1fIimNxTNde suspensions for impaired driving .
Perhaps this can relate to the BC Government Bullies forcing Smart Meters on our homes?
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Doing this is illegal to do to your meter. Read the energy tariff, BC Hydro needs to have access to its equipment at all times. Also if there is a safety issue such as a fire, locking down the meter as is shown in the pictures above, will prevent the firefighters form being able to do their jobs due to safety issues. Contrary to the above statement that the meter is “yours”, it is in fact the property of BC Hydro, customers only own from the meter base back to the house. There are a lot of misleading facts out in cyberspace right now about the whole Smart Meter issue. Being played up is the “major health risks” that are linked to the meters. Here is some facts that are over looked, Smart meters only relay their information for a total of 1 minute a day out of 24 hours, the amount of wifi exposure that one would come into contact with from the meter is about 0.1 cm/ 10 square meters. This is compared to wifi from a cell phone which is between 50-500, and that of wifi from cafes or fast food chains that offer the services for free which can exceed over 1000 cm/ 10 square meters. The total exposure for the meters entire life span of about 20 years is equivalent to a 30 minute cell phone call. Smart meters are in use and have been in use in many countries around the world, including the UK which is light years a head of North America for clean/ green energy. A huge thing about smart meters is their ability to detect power outages the moment it happens. As it is now BC Hydro has to wait for customers to call in to report the outages. For those that were affected by the outages from the massive storms in the lower main land would have greatly benefited from this technology as the crews could have been dispatched as soon as the meters reported the outage, not at 8 am when the first calls started to come in about the outages. People have to do solid research into issues like this, and not just jumping on the band wagon of every nut out there that can post what they want to on line and claim it for fact. In talking with friends and neighbors, I have been unable to find the exact articles that are saying that the meters are spontaneously exploding, or cause tumors and birth defects. The same accusations have been made about microwave ovens, cell phones, even eggs and milk have all been said to cause said health complications. The only way to move forward to better our lives is to embrace change . The only way to move forward to a better future is to change what we are currently doing, greener ways to produce power for our consumption needs to start some where. Smart meters are an effective way to start to change an old failing infrastructure that we currently are using. Short of us all giving up all our electronic devices and going back to living off the land (which wouldn’t be too bad) we need to start thinking about making major changes, not just living with the status quo , and then complain when things aren’t changing. Change is good, not changing will eventually bring us to our end, not just with smart meters but with our total thinking about everything we do be it clean energy, heath care, or economy. Changes need to be made to grow.
There are a lot of lower level BC Hydro managers, foremen/women, and employees that have been with BC Hydro for 20 plus years refusing smart meters because of health, safety, privacy, etc. The smart meter may let Hydro know when the power goes out, but it will not get the power on any sooner. With the cap on overtime there may not be any extra staff to go out and repair the outages as soon as they have in the past. They will pay OT for contractors at 10 dollars more an hour but will not pay OT for their own staff. Alot of the contractors have an OT cap also. As for the meter barricade and firefighters, they are not qualified to touch the meter, and have to call Hydro to disconnect the power. Hydro can take care of that with no problem.
Thank you, Lyla, for making these points. All very valid and important for people to know!
I agree with “smrtsnotallbad”.
If you read the Hydro Tariff – hydro employee, including Corix and Accenture are required to have access to the Meter on the side of our house.
And that the Meter is the proprerty the BC Hydro and not the Home owner.
As far as all of you bleeding Hearts out there thinking that all that the big bad hydro wants to do is &*^% you.
Get over yourselves.
If you don’t want a smart Meter that’s fine, try living without power for a couple days and see what you say then.
Smart Meter are the Future stop kicking and screaming into the 21st Centry
The notion that a citizen’s only two choices in a free and democratic society are: 1) accept a corporation strapping a cancer-causing surveillance device onto your house against your will, or 2) live without electricity, that is ludicrous in the extreme, John. Surely you have heard of this thing called civil liberties…?
If you think a smart meter causes cancer than you better not ever use a cell phone. Hey you better not even use your cordless home phone, seeing that they use more radio waves than the smart meters.
And I’m sorry to say but you don’t have a choice. Everybody is getting a smart meter , like it or not.
Maybe you should have made more of a stink years ago when SMI hadn’t been approved yet.
I don’t use cell phones or cordless phones. Or microwave ovens. Or wifi internet. Or wireless mouse/keyboard. Or any of that crap. Nor do I have any of that crap anywhere on my property. And some corporation is not going to change that. If they do, I will remove their device. Here is the video showing everyone how to do it (best to hire an electrician to do the actual deed, of course): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ8YR7Kzj_M
And you sir, are a victim of BC Hydro advertising! O, and lack of energy to do the research on these meters!
kinda obvious who you work for, ever thought that you get bombarded by every smart meter you happen to be near all frikin day and night so a little here a little there all day long get it mr smarty pants da!! it’s not just mine but everybodies
Well I could take issue with just about everything you’ve written, but it would take too long. I’m thinking you either work/subcontract with/for BC Hydro and/or the BCLibs! Or you’ve listened to way too many ads ($5.5 mil of our TAX $) to try to foist this onto the public. You need to do research (easily found thru Google), about the $ ties to this project – Corix, BCLibs …. now those are facts you can believe – not the hogwash you’re spouting! To anyone reading this, I say: PROTECT YOUR HEALTH, YOUR ANALOG METER, YOUR PRIVACY, AND YOUR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS! Lock up your meter and be sure to take pictures (dated) of it (for court if/when they damage your property).
Smart Meters – something to be afraid of? http://www.squidoo.com/beware-of-smart-meters
Every single person out there can choose to believe any lie or truth they want just like all human beings we have a choice in everything. The day we have no chioce in if we want to have anything attached to our house, be it cancer causing or not, is the day we are no longer human. I don’t believe that anyone can say that we have NO chioce, that we are going to get a smart meter if we like it or not. Stand up for what you believe in, Decisions are made by those who show up.
Exactly!!
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I’m sorry you’ve been brainwashed Kim, the fact is the world is changing and we will leave you behind. It’s sad to see that you sit in your house 24/7 and you still get bombarded with wireless waves. Clearly you don’t use a cellphone/cordless phone/microwave, and I hope you have never used an AM/RM radio, rabbit ears, CRT television.
When you move/are born into a country you agree to abide by that countries laws, if you don’t abide by them you face consequences. Just like the law, BC Hydro has given you rules to follow if you want to use there services. If you don’t want to follow their rules you don’t have to use there service, go and generate your own power. Don’t con all these people into losing power because of your made up facts that have no support.
It’s time to grow up and embrace the change, it took change to light up your home and I won’t have people like you who are afraid of change ruining life for those who have a little common sense.
Like it or not, James, BC Hydro is still a Publicly-Owned corporation; we paid for all the dams and infrastructure with our taxes and Hydro bills; we paid for “our” Hydro analogue meters, too.
Common sense means checking the unbiased science not paid by Big Telecom, and following the money trail before you call anyone “afraid of change.” How is it that turn-coat politicians, aka Liberal supporters, and Hydro directors, aka friends of Liberal supporters, received an $80m contract to install smart meters across BC?
How is it that WHO/IARC deemed radiation from one cell phone held against one user’s head to be a Class 2B carcinogen, but didn’t mention the massive increase in radiation from cell networks, smart grids, home and public WiFi, cordless phones, baby monitors as damaging to DNA, calcium metabolism, and heart rhythm? Or the environmental effects of all that radiation on eg. migrating creatures, throwing them off-course by interfering with their magnetite homing devices? Or the DNA damage to eggs and sperm caused by using a laptop or texting with the device held near your gonads? Could it be the at least three Big Telecom representatives on the IARC panel skewed the results of the so-called “unbiased” committee?
Could Hydro’s talking heads really not know that humans (and all living creatures) are electrical beings, and that manmade electromagnetic microwave radiation directly interferes with that natural living wavelength? Haven’t they ever had an ECG to measure electrical impulses of the heart, or an EEG for electrical impulses of the brain? Or do they not have hearts or brains? Common sense, James, just common sense.
To refuse to have a smart meter installed because it emits radio frequency waves is ludicrous. There is not one place on earth that radio waves do not reach, there is no escape from it. These meters emit a power of 1 watt for an approximate total of 1 minute throughout the day. The average FM radio or television station transmits at about 50,000 watts of power 24/7. Besides the millions of cell phones and cell phone towers there are also the VHF/UHF radios used by police and fire departments, taxi cabs and many other businesses and industries. What about the radios and radars used in the marine and aircraft industries. What these meters emit is a drop in the ocean compared to all the other RF sources out there. Think about that!
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