>> “… lead paint is in the same category as what the smart meter emits.”

And it’s in there for the same reason: lack of evidence.

Saying it’s in the same category as lead pain just scares people, because most people think: lead paint=neurotoxin and developmental disorders, a link which is well understood.

But any link to cancer is, as yet, unsubstantiated…Hence the Group 2B classification for lead and (just as well, and just as unsubstantiated) radio frequency radiation.

Keep us posted on any new studies 🙂

SAFETY FIRST!
PG$E spokeswoman Brittany McKannay said “It is a safety concern . . .”

That was the same claim and excuse made by a PG$E representative speaking before the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors last December when being grilled to defend cutting the power from several women’s houses in the area after the women had replaced Smart Meters with their own analog meters. The women, some with children, were left in the dark and cold, but not to worry, the downgrade was safe.

Same hypocrisy this time. Instead of communication and cooperation, PG$E used “grinders and sawzalls to complete the job.” Grinders notoriously generate a lot of sparks–while working on a whole bank of gas meters?!!! Because there were no leaky gas lines or explosions this time, we can rest assured the operation was safe.

In San Bruno they are intimately familiar with PG$E safety. Just ask Jacqueline Greig who lived there and worked for the CPUC’s Division of Ratepayer Advocates as the head of the natural gas section of analysts. In a morbid twist of irony, the statutory mission of the DRA is to minimize costs to ratepayers consistent with good safety and consumer protection. Grieg spent her last summer analyzing PG$E’s request for a $4.2 billion rate increase.
In a very effective analysis, the DRA under Greig’s direction pointed to so many unsubstantiated cost allegations, including inexplicable doubling of estimates after previously adjusting for wage inflation, that the DRA countered with a $1 billion over three years counter-proposal. The budgeting difference gave PG$E approximately 3.2 billion reasons not to like Jacqueline Greig.
Jacqueline Greig and her 13-year-old daughter Janessa both died in the notorious San Bruno gas explosion.

“She lived right at the spot where it blew,” commission President Michael Peevey told the Los Angeles Times. “She and a younger daughter were in the house. Her husband and the older daughter were at the daughter’s school.”
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/09/11/mother-daughter-among-the-dead-in-california-blast/

“The irony is that she worked in the gas section” (of the DRA) Peevey said.

Indeed, what an irony.

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To simplify things even more, lead paint is in the same category as what the smart meter emits. To say their are no studies showing harm may not be an accurate statement. Here are 2,308 studies from the Naval Medical Research Institute backing my statement.
http://www.justproveit.net/content/studies

“Class 2b” does not identify carcinogens. It identifies materials or environments for which a cancer risk is unknown. Not known to be safe, nor known to be dangerous. Why you people keep calling EMF a carcinogen, when no study has ever shown a general link, let alone specific links (different frequencies and power levels have different properties) above statistical background let alone known dangers such as sunshine or air travel is evidence of your desire to embrace rhetoric that unsubstantially supports your desire to see a risk.