California PUC Stonewalls on Smart Meter Health Damage; Attempts to Cover Up Testimony Demanding Health Hearings

In California, the second phase of the smart meter ‘opt out’ proceeding took place at the California Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco on May 16th, overseen by Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Amy Yip Kikugawa. This is the same judge who nearly cleared the room after we asked questions about the peak pulse of radiation from smart meters on September 15th of last year.  After Sue Brinchman of the San Diego based Center for Electrosmog Prevention posted the transcript of the recent public proceeding on her website, the CPUC  wrote to her by e-mail and asked her to remove it- that the transcript was not allowed to be posted online:

“…it has come to our attention that you have posted transcripts on your web site. Please do not post any transcripts on your web site or any web site.”

Why would the CPUC want to suppress the transcript of a public, judicial proceeding paid for by the taxpayer and critical to the outcome of how the smart meter ‘opt out’ is paid for, who pays, and how it is structured?

Well it’s pretty clear from reading the transcript why they don’t want the public to know what’s going on in these proceedings. Again and again, parties in the proceeding raise the health issue (more than 14 times according to our count) and each time Judge Amy dismisses it.  It’s fairly obvious she has her marching orders; she has shown herself to be a reliable ally of corporate stooge and president of the Commission Michael Peevey.

Imagine (just for arguments sake) that someone ends up in court after murdering someone.  The district attorney and a long string of witnesses all tell the judge that the perpetrator must be charged with murder and a trial must be held.  The evidence is strong and compelling, and each witness can testify to the crime from different angles.  Yet the judge refuses to acknowledge the evidence, insisting on reviewing the perpetrator’s parking tickets, and telling the DA and the crowd of witnesses that they should seek a separate trial for the murder case.

“But we have, your honor!” they exclaim. “No one else has agreed to hear the case- we’ve been turned back every time.” The Judge nods, and proceeds to discuss the “critical” issue of how much the accused will have to pay for illegally parking his gold Mercedes while he committed the murder.

The analogy is not exact, but the level of corruption, injustice, and betrayal of public service is even worse in this case.  PG&E and the other utilities are responsible for a quiet public health catastrophe, and the CPUC- fuelled by our tax dollars- is looking the other way, betraying their responsibility to protect public health and safety .  Fines that sound large to the public are levied for violations that led to the San Bruno explosion, but these amounts pale in comparison to the huge profits energy companies are making off our backs. Executives who place profit over people’s lives one day are on to their next position making millions the next.

These psychopathic individuals should be criminally prosecuted and sent to jail for a long time.  That’s the only thing that might make future execs think twice before gambling with public health and safety.  Instead, ordinary people taking peaceful action to defend themselves against microwave violence end up in jail.

The Orwellian doublethink evident in this proceeding would be comical if it wasn’t so tragic.  When you see the system so broken that it won’t even admit to a blatant crime in progress, the public is left no other option than to take matters into their own hands.

Any opt out program that ignores its own raison d’etre is destined to be discriminatory, illegal and ineffective.

Above is the video of the proceeding courtesy of EON.  Below are edited sections of the transcript from this proceeding.  In defiance of the CPUC’s attempt to quash public access to this document, we have posted the full version here in the public interest.

Thank you to the brave, eloquent intervenors in this case.  We admire their patience and keen sense of justice.  May the people prevail against the technocratic smart grid.  As Steve Martinot says, “people are more important than technology.”

We’re not so sure that the system agrees.

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Second Phase Opt Out Proceeding CPUC– Excerpts from Transcript

DAVID WILNER: Once again, we are thankful that the Commission has approved a SmartMeter opt-out option for utility customers in California.  However…it’s important to note that the Commission (has) a duty to determine whether SmartMeters are actually safe.  And we do not believe that under any circumstances customers should be required to pay any cost for opting out of the SmartMeter program. The second phase to this proceeding should focus on that very important issue.  There is no question that some people become ill when a SmartMeter is installed on their home….. We also believe there must be hearings rather than a workshop in this proceeding or possibly both so parties can present their evidence and cross-examine evidence presented by others.

MARTIN HOMEC: …the Public Utilities Commission doesn’t consider the health and safety aspects of the SmartMeter wireless emissions…And so we would like a review of the state and federal laws that are the reason, the rationale for the Public Utilities Commission not to consider the health issues because we believe the state and federal laws do give the Public Utilities Commission the authority to oversee this.

JUDGE YIP-KIKUGAWA:  Sorry.  As you discuss…expanding the scope of this proceeding, this proceeding really is… about opt-out, an opt-out option.  The issues concerning health, the issues concerning review of deployment, why should we be expanding it in this proceeding and why should it not be the subject of a separate proceeding?

MARTIN HOMEC:  Because people are suffering right now, as Mr. Wilner mentioned.  There are people who have anxiety attacks, who are feeling nauseous or some other ill effects which they attribute to SmartMeters. And if they are wrong, then perhaps there’s something else.  But if there’s a health impact, the Commission should…for the public good investigate it so that people can be at rest as to what they believe is affecting them so they can be treated if they have some other ill effects.  Or if the SmartMeter is causing the illness, we will know it immediately instead of delaying this…… So it’s been six years and nothing has happened.  Nobody has evaluated the wireless emissions health impacts.

JUDGE YIP-KIKUGAWA: ….Anecdotal, the anecdotes of what’s occurring, you can’t say that they’re not occurring.  I can’t say that they are occurring.  But is it the SmartMeter, is it as you said cell phones or what is the cause? And that is where my concern is, is that we are trying to shoe-horn an issue into this proceeding and I don’t think it’s appropriate to do that.

SANDI MAURER, EMF SAFETY NETWORK:  Thank you…There have been studies, and these studies do show that people have EHS, and that’s very valid.  So I don’t think we need more studies at this point.  We have studies.  We need an opportunity to be heard on the studies that are already there.  And we did include that request for …health hearings on health impacts from SmartMeters. We are also asking for hearings on safety impacts, including impacts of smart meters that have caused burned out appliances, that have exploded and have caused fires, because this is an issue that the utilities have denied, and this Commission has never taken it up.  The EMF Safety Network had a filing.  It was dismissed in December of 2010.  We are waiting for our rehearing request to be acted upon. So I think that considering the amount of people that are suffering from the smart meters and the amount of backlash this Commission has seen, that it would be prudent to take the time now to open this discussion up… The basic reason — there has been no stated reason that this opt-out proceeding was initiated.  The only reason stated is that any customers for any reason can opt out; if they didn’t want one, they didn’t have to have one.  But there was never a stated reason…Is an opt-out provision an appropriate substitute for having the Commission exercise its statutorily presented responsibilities and authority to make the decisions about health and safety. And I want to give that to you because I think it’s a really important question.

STEVE MARTINOT:  Thank you. Prior to my statement about how I think this proceeding should be — the scope should be expanded, let me simply mention that the Application that I mentioned earlier does call for hearings on the health issue throughout California as provided by law.

MARY BETH BRANGAN, EON: …the reason that I’m concerned is the wireless mesh network, in addition to the individual meter.  So this is why it’s so necessary for us to expand the scope here, because it’s not an issue of a single home.

And the ramifications, the implications of this technology and this planned system infrastructure all have impacts.  So if you as an individual opt out, you are you’re still impacted by the infrastructure next to your house, by all your neighbors, by the infiltration into the wiring that this pulsed radiation emits.  It is a total picture that we have to look at. And that’s why it’s so necessary for us to expand the hearing to include why people are suffering.

JAMES WEIL: There seems to me to be a live issue of whether or not charging customers for opt-out is legal considering that opt-out decisions can be driven for medical reasons.  I’m not a lawyer.  It is hard for me to vet all of that.  But I do see a very clear connection between medical conditions and the possibility of discrimination when it’s pretty clear to me at least that the customers who are choosing to opt out are doing so based on medical grounds. The Commission seems to be hiding its head in the sand about some of that stuff, but I do hope the Commission will entertain the issue of discrimination associated with medical conditions…….. When I think about participant costs and whether or not the Commission should be allocating costs to only participants or to the ratepayers as a whole, I keep coming back to the notion that participant costs include pain.  They include the medical costs that they might incur.  They include personal discomfort. For those reasons I think the Commission should keep its eyes and ears open to the possibility of considering health impacts as part of the universe of customer costs.

DAVID WILNER: The smart meters are attached to our homes.  They are attached to the wiring in our homes.  And they are a permanent fixture.  And clearly they are harmful to some people.  Cell phones, computers and other devices are optional.  If you are concerned about your cell phone being dangerous, get rid of it.  If you are concerned about your computer or something else that’s in question, again, you can dispose of it.  But you can’t dispose of your electricity.  You can’t dispose of your electric meter.

I’m very troubled that the Commission would consider throwing out our complaint on the grounds that —

ALJ YIP-KIKUGAWA:  Mr. Wilner, concerning your complaint, that is really outside the scope of this proceeding.  I don’t know where you are on that, if that is something that is a proposed Decision that’s been issued or if you are at a point where you can actually appeal the proposed Decision.  And that is where you should be making your arguments, not here.

JEROMY JOHNSON:  Your Honor, I guess I want to respond to your question about whether the scope of this should relate to health effects……. I just want to say that that’s why many of us are here. The health issue is probably the most important thing.  Going forward I think it will be the most important thing.

DAVID BRAWNER: My wife and I own several multifamily dwellings in Marin County where all the electrical and gas meters are in every case located on one wall of the building near living spaces.  In one case there are nine electrical meters attached to one wall.

Many of us may remember when it was possible to go into a restaurant and be greeted by a host or hostess who asked smoking or nonsmoking.  If you chose nonsmoking, the result was often not good because you are exposed to secondhand smoke anyway.  There are smokers close by and the effect of the nonsmoking section was basically negated.

Similarly, if one person in an apartment complex chooses a smart meter when the majority choose analog, everyone is exposed to the mesh network of pulse radiation, just as we are exposed to secondhand smoke in a nonsmoking section.

Therefore, we’re asking that multi family dwellings be classified as communities and accorded the right to choose to be smart meter free.  We would like our buildings to provide living accommodations that are safe and free of the mesh network of pulse radiation emitted by smart meters. I feel like it’s a disclosure issue in a way just like lead free paint disclosures and mold disclosures. I feel I need to inform my tenants that this is something that is hazardous to their health.

JIM TOBIN: ….. when you hear local government officials testify here, they will tell you that one of the things they are responding to is health concerns of their citizens.

—At this point, Marcel Hawiger with The Utility Reform Network (TURN) indicates in a roundabout way that he does not want costs associated with the opt out program added to everyone’s bills- presumably TURN wants those suffering from medical problems with the smart meter to bear the cost of the opt out—-

SANDI MAURER:  Some additional thoughts, your Honor. It almost seems like this proceeding is putting the cart before the horse because we’re talking about an opt-out and the communities may be even having to pay for an opt-out.  But the Commission has never made a determination on the problems that are occurring– and why the communities are having a problem with the opt-out. Do you see what I’m saying? The Commission has never investigated the problems with SmartMeters. They’ve never made a determination on the safety of the SmartMeters.  So they are not addressing the main reason that these communities and individual want to opt-out. So that gives more weight of adding that as a point of view to give more weight to the inclusion of the problems with SmartMeters as part of the scope of this proceeding. Otherwise, we’re putting an opt-out for communities but you’re not saying why.

The Commission is not determining the reason.  You’re saying for any reason, but then you have to pay.  That’s another penalty for a community because they’re not participating.  But the Commission is not saying why these communities are not participating.  And I believe that all communities should have the right to understand why a community opt-out would even be proposed.  There are communities that are not informed.  They don’t know what happens in this proceeding.  They should have a right to be informed, not just those counties and cities that already have been informed by their citizenry.

STEVE MARTINOT: With respect to the aggregate staying within FCC guidelines, as Mr. Wilner has pointed out, it doesn’t, and with respect to the cumulative effect of these meters on individuals under the principle that people really are more important than technology.

MR. WARNER, PG&E:  We need to make a showing of incremental costs.  We need to provide a reasonable estimate.  We do look forward to working with some of the intervenors who really do focus on (cost) issues like TURN, DRA, Mr. Weil.

JUDGE YIP-KIKUGAWA:  Okay.  Then the last question that I have is does anyone see the need for public participation hearings?  And if so, how many and where?  Any thoughts? Mr. Martinot.

MR. MARTINOT:  I assume by public participation you mean testimony about, for instance, health effects?

JUDGE YIP-KIKUGAWA:  No.  We are talking about setting up a time where the public would be able to come in and speak before me and possibly Commissioner Peevey.

JUDGE YIP-KIKUGAWA:  Otherwise, I think I would like to move over into the schedule.  And I think that may address some of the issues of how we attack the two big issues identified. (ed: cost and community wide opt out NOT health) And if there are other issues that are ultimately determined to be within the scope of this proceeding, we can put those in.

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16 Responses to California PUC Stonewalls on Smart Meter Health Damage; Attempts to Cover Up Testimony Demanding Health Hearings

  1. Sandi says:

    “The Judge nods, and proceeds to discuss the “critical” issue of how much the victim will have to pay for illegally parking his car while he committed the murder.”

    Thanks for posting this write up. Brilliant work as always.

  2. S Brinchman says:

    Regarding the posting of transcripts: these transcripts were mailed out to ALL parties to the proceedings without any special instructions. They were for a proceeding that the public could sit in on – ie., a public proceeding, by a state agency that is called California Public Utilities Commission. In the interest of transparency, which the Obama administration has supported strongly, in the interest of the public knowing just how much the issue of health and smart meters was brought up during that meeting by every Intervenor (Party to the opt-out proceedings) who was not a utility representative, the transcript was published. This is not the Soviet Union, this is supposed to be America (though it is hardly recognizable as such, lately)…and people have the right to the information about exactly what was said in this opt-out meeting at the CPUC – and not paid for by the page! So get with transparency, CPUC. Any union contract that is based on restricting information from the public and not publishing it on the web needs to be reworked. I do not believe that is the reason, I think, along with Stop Smart Meters, that the CPUC is trying to sweep their culpability for ignoring the health impacts of smart meters under the rug … and they trumped this excuse up to take down the transcript. Even when hell freezes over the transcript stays.

    • Paul H says:

      I agree! This used to be America but is now run by foreign ideas and morals. To discuss cost over health is something they would do overseas where humanity means nothing and the government is everything. This Judge acts like she is in China or Indonesia where there is little concern for human life. Health is sacrificed for cost? She has ignored the evidence and should be held accountable for her actions. The lawyers and judges that keep ignoring our health concerns should be held in a Nurenberg style trial after the truth prevails and we get a President that turns things around. It’s plain to see
      that these are crimes committed against humanity. Then look at who is behind
      carbon credits and taxes. Wake up people! Global warming is a lie and this is an excuse to rip us off! Even if it were a little warmer, who cares? The plants love warm weather and they love carbon too.

  3. Josh says:

    It’s a good strategy on the part of the utility and their lapdogs/regulators at the CPUC. If they can keep the focus off the real issue, then they can keep the public from getting too riled up. A widespread and inescapable agent that causes sickness is alarming and might require action; if the issue is just about allocations of costs for a program “designed to promote customer choice,” the public will just file the whole problem under “bureaucratic issues not worth worrying about.”

    The question is how to counter this strategy. The health issue should be the focus, but the movement needs to get past the caricature of the guy wearing a tinfoil hat and ranting about being fried by the invisible waves, a caricature which is still very much in the mind of most of the public when this issue comes up.

    To thank end, I think it’s important to work on getting the words of experts who are concerned about public microwave exposure as widely publicized as possible. The experts need to credible people with impressive CVs, and they need to be able to speak eloquently about the issue. Perhaps SSM should consider partnering with members of the ICEMS (http://www.icems.eu/resolution.htm), the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, or the Bioinitiative Working Group on a public education campaign; these people have the CVs and the credibility, and SSM has the grassroots energy to get the message out. If video ads or a movie were to be part of the campaign, there is at least one person with media and production experience who might be willing to help: Talal Jabari, who produced the movie Full Signal (fullsignalmovie.com). Musical talent sympathetic to the cause could come from Trillion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WJCKgknZoE) or DJ Steve Miller aka Afterlife, who is wireless-ES (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NILNEmTdhoA).

    However it’s done, I think it’s important to find experts who are willing to speak on this issue and publicize what they have to say as widely as possible, both through grassroots efforts and through conventional media channels. We’ve got to bring together the grassroots organizations like SSM with experts and media people. That’s the only way I can see the health issue being taken up by the mainstream in a way that’s likely to promote really addressing the issue.

    Keep up the good work.

    • Redi Kilowatt says:

      Josh,
      Not once in all of the transcripts was the term “microwave” mentioned.
      We all have many valid reasons for opposing the SmartMeter project, but to throw in false information doesn’t help our cause.
      This opt out fee is one hot potatoe.
      I never opted in, never got a SmartMeter so I never had to opt out. As of yet, no socialized charge of $$75 has shown up on my bill yet.
      Here is a tip, after PG&E making mistakes in their meter reads at my house, I now use the plastic card of dials and read my own meter (I have been for years).
      All PG&E customers can request a plastic card and read their own meter, there is no such law that states otherwise. It’s very simple, takes about 2 minutes per month. All one has to do is place the card at a visible location on the street, and what I do is have the meter reader flip the card so I know that the meter has been read. Also, you can phone in your monthly read directly to : Pricilla @ PG&E’s
      billing dept. The phone number is 209-476-4157. This is a toll call to Stockton.

  4. S Brinchman says:

    The rf radiation and health effects referred to was about microwave radiation, and everyone there knew it, as the frequencies used in the smart meters are in the microwave range. So there is no “false information”.
    I like the ideas you gave, Redi, for calling in the monthly read. Everyone should start doing that! At the meeting the PG&E atty (I believe it was) responded that if a self-read card was used the meter reader still has to go out to collect it and thus, the charge. Well, how about mailing it in? Or phoning it in? Good job on that portion of the comment. But boooo on the false info part.

    • Redi Kilowatt says:

      All RF radiation is not microwave radiation, and all scientists and engineers know that. The UHF band that the SmartMeters use has very little microwave use, much more of a percentage of microwave uses the SHF, (super high frequency which is 3 to 30 GHZ, the EHF (Extremely High Frequency) which is 30 to 300 GHz, and the THF (Tremendously or Terahertz High Frequency) which is 300 to 3,000 GHz. SmartMeters and mobile phones do not use microwave.
      As for the plastic cards, yes, the meter readers are still needed to read them, but they are also needed to read the meters of the customers who have solar systems that are grid tied. PG&E will never be able to eliminate the meter reading department, just downsize it by about 50 percent.
      With the new trends being promoted like decentralized generation (DG), micro power grids, the use of renewable sources and alternate energy systems, the meter readers are here to stay. Don’t fall for PG&E’s propaganda, or some activists propaganda either.
      Parroting other’s propaganda and pseudoscience will not help the fight against SmartMeters, only the true facts should be used, and there are plenty. There is no “microwave range” like you say.

  5. Paul H says:

    SLEEP is the issue Josh! It’s effecting their sleep and seems to be the common denominater.

    I could have used a tinfoil hat after video taping a local High School campus today. The school has 5 towers and wifi in the classroom. They had hazmat crews testing the ground for chemicals but no one to investigate the obvious problem. Needless to say my ears are still ringing from that little escapade. There are a ton of people getting sick and can’t figure out why. They go to the doctor for medication and never find the source. I’m sick of being asked for donations for all the illness caused by wireless. Most doctors never ask if the patient sleeps with a cordless base station, wifi, or cell phone next to their bed.

    The woman located to the left of the judge looks like she is suffering from lack of sleep. It looks like she is already a victim of the smart meter and probably doesn’t realize it.

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  7. J. Petard says:

    If I may, I will share my letter of today to a specific state government agency:
    ___________________,
    I am writing to alert you to an unauthorized and unacknowledged experiment being conducted on non-consenting human subjects in California. The experiment consists of setting up experimental environments as de facto laboratories consisting of 24/7 wifi EMF radiation from non-thermal pulsed ELF RF radiation augmented by intermittent other wifi EMF devices and appliances.
    The non-consenting uninformed human subjects are to be exposed to these laboratory EMF environments for at least as much time as they spend in their homes each day. Some will have much greater exposure than others. The duration of the experiment is open-ended, indefinite and presumably will continue until something such as manifestations of mass morbidity or death associated with the experiment causes it to be concluded.
    The sample population is divided into Biobanks of living human subjects demarcated by the territorial boundaries of the various privately owned legal monopoly utility companies operating in California.
    The machinery of the experiment is being provided in the form of
    wifi “smart meter” devices newly deployed to homes and schools etc. The
    dwellings will likely be the chief source of exposure of the human subjects once they are transformed into 24/7 laboratory experimental environments of pulsed ELF RF emissions with augmented EMF radiation form optional wifi devices such as telephones and computers, and eventually with two-way wifi devices in all electrical appliances which will be in regular contact with the core wifi utility meter device when the laboratory experimental environment is fully in place.
    It can be expected that few will perceive any effects from the novel experimental EMF environment but some may experience a variety of negative symptoms which they may or may not associate as originating with the deployment of new utility meters.
    The current FCC Regulations were written in 1992 at a time when it was believed that there were no harmful effects from non-thermal ELF RF radiation. However, during the subsequent twenty years, published scientific research has produced evidence that this radiation is harmful, with long term exposure; and that the harmful effects are cumulative. Because of this emerging evidence of harm, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine has adopted a strong position urging precaution in the matter of the wifi smart meters and sent the CPUC commissioners a letter urging them to stop deployment of the devices and remove those already deployed to homes and schools, as they are dangerous. “Chronic exposure to wireless radiofrequency radiation is a preventable environmental hazard that is sufficiently well documented to warrant immediate preventative public health action.”[*1]
    The CPUC commissioners ignored the AAEM as it had ignored the expert Sage Report which indicated that the wifi smart meter device/grid technology is likely to be harmful and should not be deployed without further independent testing to prove the devices are safe. The commissioners have acted with evident determination to facilitate a rapid deployment of the devices revealing an agenda that disregards concern for legitimate negative health effects that may reasonably be expected to result. The CPUC commissioners and the utility executives are united in implementing this experimental EMF environment utilizing private dwellings as laboratories for the EMF experimentation on the inhabitants.
    There has been very little, minimal mass media coverage of the issue of ill health effects from the ELF RF radiation associated with the wifi smart meter devices/grid and none exposing the fact that the captive utility customers of the private utility cartel will have their home environments transformed into alien man made 24/7 EMF experimental environments
    such as life on this planet has never been exposed to before; and the results
    will be scientifically valuable in the fullness of time. What is known of the
    morbidity that may be expected is that it will be such as results from cumulative molecular level cell damage, breakage of DNA; damage to the Blood-Brain Barrier inducing increased permeability; reduced male fertility.
    The human subjects are unaware, for the most part, of what they are
    being subjected to. They are told that the new meter devices are safe. The
    CPUC, created to regulate the private utility companies in California for the public interest and safety and to protect the captive utility customers from dangerous infrastructure machinery embraced a report produced by the California Council on Science and Technology [CCST], composed by sometime associates of the commissioners, which concluded that the devices are safe and the FCC Regulations adequate for evaluating the technology.
    In the CCST Report universe, ELF RF radiation is safe and addressed thermal RF issues not relevant to the health issues raised by the new wifi meter technology. A perplexing report that ought to have been met with rejection and scorn by the commissioners but was instead used as if it impeached evidence of harm. This facilitated the CPUC commissioners to approve the deployment of the dangerous devices to homes and schools; and they were deployed with undue haste from the standpoint of public health safety; but with timely diligence for the illicit implementation of the EMF experiment on uninformed, un-witting, non-consenting human subjects.
    I have only addressed the matter of human subjects, but it will be an experiment on all living organisms within the boundaries of the man made EMF radiation environment.
    I submit this to you with the request that you fairly evaluate this
    matter and act to intervene on the part of the many non-consenting human subjects who will be at risk for serious morbidity although it occur gradually over an extended period, unless this illicit experiment is terminated promptly.
    The Nuremberg ten Point Code was created to clarify what is ethically acceptable in using human subjects for experimentation; it was incorporated into California law according to Wikipedia. Now is a time to invoke it.
    Sincerely yours,

    *1. http://electromagnetichealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/AAEM-Resolution.pdf

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