Audios & Events & Letters & Video & Webinar - December 01 & 02, 2013 (audio 30:00) CFAX 1070 - Ian Jessop - John Horgan, Juan de Fuca NDP MLA and Energy Critic - 1:00pm to 1:30pm - December 02, 2013: - cfax1070/Media/CFAX-Podcasts/Ian-Jessop/December-2-2013-1pm (John Horgan talks to Ian about the financial state of BC Hydro #cfaxtalk 2503861161) TBYP [West Auckland, New Zealand] WEA Waitakere, 9 Henderson Valley Rd, Henderson, West Auckland - Thursday, December 05, 2013 @ 7:30PM: - stopsmartmeters.org.nz/uncategorized/december-5-take-back-your-power-west-auckland/ [EHS - EMF - Health] Webinar - A Step By Step Guide To Ultimate EMF Protection - Live Event OnLine by Lloyd Burrell - ElectricSense: - electricsense/7274/a-step-by-step-guide-to-ultimate-emf-protection/ (Thursday, 5 December, 2013 - 1:00 p.m. EST or 10 a.m. PST or 6 p.m. GMT & Thursday, 9 January, 2014 - 1:00 p.m. EST or 10 a.m. PST or 6 p.m. GMT & Thursday, 16 January, 2014 - 1:00 p.m. EST or 10 a.m. PST or 6 p.m. GMT & Thursday, 23 January, 2014 - 1:00 p.m. EST or 10 a.m. PST or 6 p.m. GMT & If you register and you cant attend at these times youll still receive the webinar recording and the printouts.) The British Columbia Resolution on the Proliferation of Electromagnetic Radiation Petition by Ron Gordon - To be delivered to the BC Provincial Health Office: - petitions.moveon.org/sign/the-british-columbia-1.fb40?source=s.fb.ty&r_by=6988532 (video 02:01) Join thousands of Canadians in a movement to guarantee the right to a healthy environment - David Suzuki Foundation: - action2.davidsuzuki.org/healthy_environment_petition/?utm_campaign=R2HE&utm_medium=email&utm_source=EM1-Winner&utm_content=Link_WatchTheVideo&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokua3NZKXonjHpfsX56eQlUKa0lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DScJgI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFS7jNMbZkz7gOXRE%3D & A plan to enshrine the environment into Canadas constitution - CBC Radio - November 29, 2013: - cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2013/11/29/a-plan-to-enshrine-the-environment-into-canadas-constitution/?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokua3NZKXonjHpfsX56eQlUKa0lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DScJgI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFS7jNMbZkz7gOXRE%3D & (audio 23:57) - cbc.ca/thecurrent/popupaudio.html?clipIds=2421260710 [Bills] E-Street Question: What you think of B.C. Hydro’s plan to increase rates? - The Province - December 02, 2013: - theprovince/business/Street+Question+What+think+Hydro+plan+increase+rates/9237444/story.html [Comox Valley, BC] Smart meter opt-out fee must go by Roberta Meilleur - Comox Valley Record - December 02, 2013: - comoxvalleyrecord/opinion/letters/234127681.html (Please Comment & - comoxvalleyrecord/contact_us/?curSection=%2F&curSection=%2F&curTitle=Contact+Us&curTitle=Contact%2BUs&c=y&c=y) Dear editor, I am writing to ask that the BC Utilities Commission not approve BC Hydros opt-out fee for those of us choosing to keep our analog hydro meters. I am frustrated and angry over BC Hydros coercive, threatening and punitive tactics regarding my choice to keep my meter as Hydros actions go against my human rights and my right to choose. Maintaining my health is my top priority so I choose to minimize my exposure to electrical radiation as much as possible. At the same time, I live simply. My income is low so I am unable to pay the exorbitant and unfair monthly penalty fee Hydro has threatened to charge me for keeping my analog meter. Not only is the fee extortionist but my meter is read bi-monthly so a monthly penalty to have my meter read makes no sense. That there is a threat of having my power cut off if I dont pay the fee is a further slap in the face after Ive paid every Hydro bill fully and on time for 45 years! Those of us who are concerned, aware and unwilling to have our democratic rights ignored dont deserve to pay for a corporations abuse of power. Roberta Meilleur, Comox Valley [Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii, USA] Discount for Smart Meters by Larry Arruda - The Garden Island - December 01, 2013: - thegardenisland/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-for-sunday-dec/article_4bf2e58e-5a4a-11e3-953c-0019bb2963f4.html KIUC wants to impose a fee on those 3,000 members that chose to opt out of the smart meter program. The board claims that it costs the membership $340,000 per year to now read the meters of those 3,000 members. They are calling it an “extra cost.” That is a very deceitful term being used by the board, and by the writers for The Garden Island newspaper. The cost to read the meters has always been included in the price we pay for our electricity. Therefore, the cost to read fewer meters is not an extra cost. Now that they have found a way to allegedly save some of that cost, it is arrogant and deceptive to try to make 3,000 co-op members pay for reading their meters again. We already pay for it in our outrageous electrical rates. I don’t believe anyone has seen a decrease in their rates after the installation of the 27,000 smart meters. In fact, I would suggest, rather than make the 3,000 members pay “extra” for reading their old style meters, why not give a “discount” to those that allowed KIUC to install the “smart” meters on their homes and businesses. Now that would be fair. $63,000 to have an election to let 30,000 members vote on whether or not the $340,000 annual cost is to be shared equally amongst all 30,000 members or to be paid for entirely by just the 3,000 members. Now, doesn’t that seem a little unfair? Is that not a “vote by the majority to impose a burden on the minority?” Unconstitutional? By the way, why didn’t we have an election to decide on whether we should spend $11 million on a “smart meter” program to begin with? Perhaps a good business plan would have been to first explain and demonstrate the advantages of the smart meter and then offering the membership the option of accepting the installation of a smart meter, in return for a discount on their electric rates, rather than offering the option to decline. In closing, I must once again ask, what happened to the $3.4 million per year that it was costing KIUC to read the old meters ? by Larry Arruda, Lihue
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