Duty Study find major design flaw in the Design of Smart Meters that can result in higher bills

CRISIS May 2022

'EPIDEMIC' of inaccuracy

SMART METERS USED TO REMOTELY SWITCH TO PRE-PAY AND DISCONNECT HOUSHOLDS

Warrant obtained to break in and install a Smartmeter!

List of symptoms:

Sleep problems (insomnia, difficulty falling asleep, night waking, nightmares)
Stress, agitation, anxiety, irritability
Headaches, sharp pain or pressure in the head
Ringing in the ears, ear pain, high pitched ringing
Concentration, memory or learning problems
Fatigue, muscle or physical weakness
Disorientation, dizziness, or balance problems
Eye problems, including eye pain, pressure in the eyes,
Cardiac symptoms, heart palpitations, heart arrhythmias, chest pain
Leg cramps, or neuropathy
Arthritis, body pain, sharp, stabbing pains
Nausea, flu-like symptoms
Sinus problems, nose bleeds
Respiratory problems, cough, asthma
Skin rashes, facial flushing
Urinary problems
Endocrine disorders, thyroid problems, diabetes
High blood pressure
Changes in menstrual cycle
Hyperactivity or changes in children’s behavior
Seizures
Recurrence of cancer
Taken from EMF Safety Network Survey 2011
Symptoms after Exposure to Smart Meter Radiation By Dr. Ron Powell

Removal of Implied Right of Access

You can use this notice to STOP an engineer fitting a smart meter to your property.

It is a Removal of Implied Rights of Access and is a legally binding document.

The company and the engineer would be guilty of the Civil Tort of trespass if they ignored this notice.

Smart Meters are Dangerous

How Not to Have a Smart Meter By Ray St Clair

I wrote to my energy supplier two years ago and told them that terms of my accepting a smart would be ~

1. A £5000 'Site access fee.

2. They would need to buy a 'smart meter installation permit from the landowner (me), this would be £15,000.

3. They would need to sign a 'ground rent' agreement for the land the meter took up, this would be £12,000 per annum.

4. They would agree to my appointed engineer carrying out a 6 monthly safety check at £4,500 per inspection.

5. Any radiation detected in any amount from the meter would mean the instant removal of the meter and installation of my own mechanical meter at a cost to them of £36,000.

6. They agreed to supply me with an insurance indemnity policy showing me that they had insured my property for £3 million pounds and agreed to cover any and all legal and relocation costs without equivocation.

7. I wanted the full names and home addresses of the fitters and to be supplied copies of their personal liability insurance before allowing them access to my property.

8. I made it clear that in Any claim, the board of the supplier would be personally liable for my losses jointly and severally with the company.

9. Any attempt by them to fit a smart meter without my express written consent would mean they tacitly accepted all of the above.

Two weeks later I got a letter saying that my letter was on file and that they wouldn't be fitting a smart meter to my property ... ever.

Next!!!! Under the common law you are entitled to make any charge for access to your private property that you see fit, it's only enforceable in law if you put them on notice prior, invoicing after the event won't work because the 4 cornerstones of contract law will not have been met (offer, acceptance, performance, consideration). My notice to them stated my offer to contract, if they had performed after that then by the terms of my notice they would been tacitly and contractually bound to the consideration (payment of my fees) as their performance would be acceptance.

Put simply, they can do nothing without your consent, your property is private and you set out your terms of acceptance, the the board members to tacit liability and lay out your fees, they will run a mile. ~ Ray St Clair

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TELEGRAPH ARTICLE ON SMART METERS

If you have a smartmeter, shield the signals from it:

SMART METER TEMPLATE LETTER

[PUT YOUR ADDRESS HERE]

[PUT THEIR ADDRESS HERE]

Date

Customer Reference Number: [PUT YOUR CUSTOMER NUMBER HERE]

NOTICE OF NO CONSENT TO TRESPASS AND TO SURVEILLANCE, NOTICE OF LIABILITY

Dear [PUT UTILITY COMPANY NAME HERE] and all agents, officers, employees, contractors and interested parties:

If you intend to install a wireless meter or “Smart Meter” or any activity-monitoring device or “Smart Grid” operation at the above address, you and all other parties are hereby denied consent for said installation, and use of all such devices and installation and use of any activity-monitoring device and Smart Grid operation on or at the above property is hereby refused and prohibited.

Informed consent is legally required for installation of any surveillance device and any device that will collect and transmit private and personal data to undisclosed and unauthorized parties for undisclosed and unauthorized purposes.

Authorization for sharing of personal and private information may only be given by the originator and subject of that information. That authorization is hereby denied and refused with regard to the above property and all their respective occupants.

Wireless Intelligent Meters, Smart Meters and Smart Grids violate the law and cause endangerment to residents by the following factors:

1. They individually identify devices inside the home and record when they are operated, causing invasion of privacy.

2. They monitor household activity and occupancy in violation of rights and domestic security.

3. They transmit wireless signals, which may be intercepted by unauthorized and unknown parties. Those signals can be used to monitor behaviour and occupancy, and they can be used by criminals to aid criminal activity against the occupants.

4. Data about occupants’ daily habits and activities are collected, recorded and stored in permanent databases which are accessed by parties not authorized or invited to know and share that private data.

5. Those with access to the wireless, intelligent and/or smart meter databases can review a permanent history of household activities complete with calendar and time-of-day metrics to gain a highly invasive and detailed view of the lives of the occupants.

6. Those databases may be shared with, or fall into the hands of criminals, blackmailers, law enforcement, private hackers of wireless transmissions, utility company employees, and other unidentified parties who may act against the interests of the occupants under metered surveillance.

7. Wireless Intelligent and Smart Meters and Smart Grids are, by definition, respectively surveillance devices and operations that violate wiretapping laws by recording and storing databases of private and personal activities and behaviours without the consent or knowledge of those people who are monitored.

8. It is possible for example, with analysis of certain “wireless, intelligent and / or smart meter” data, for unauthorized and distant parties to determine medical conditions, sexual activities, physical locations of persons within the home, vacancy patterns and personal information and habits of the occupants.

9. Your company has not adequately disclosed the particular recording and transmission capabilities of the Wireless, Intelligent and Smart Meter and Smart Grids, their frequencies or other electromagnetic parameters, nor the extent of the data that will be recorded, stored and shared, nor the purposes to which said data will and will not be put.

10. The UK Government has admitted that all Wireless and Smart Meters and Smart Grids are susceptible to “cyber-insecurity”, that is why uptake in the UK is voluntary. See Daily Telegraph report 1st February 2012. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/financialservices/utilities/Business-energy/9053100/Smart-meters-for-energy-to-be-voluntary.html

11. In the US, former CIA Director James Woolsey stated the Smart Grid is “vulnerable”, “stupid” and suffers from security weaknesses. www.powermag.com/blog/index.php/2011/08/14/ex-cia-chief-slams-smart-grid/

12. Wireless, Intelligent and Smart Meters and Smart Grids expose occupants and all living organisms on their household property to constant, “weapons-grade, pulse-modulated microwave radiation”, as tacitly admitted by in the US by Department of Defence and Department of the Environment officials at the FL Energy Summit on 10/28/2011. Such radiation is a “Hazard” per the ANSI/IEEE Committee that in 1991 set FCC guidelines against such exposure. Thousands of studies conclude adverse bio-effects from such radiation at even lower exposure levels and shorter durations than Wireless and Smart Meters and Smart Grids deploy. Radiofrequency radiation generally was determined a Class B1 “probable carcinogen” by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1990; and its subset of wavelengths in body-part size, called microwave radiation, are more hazardous by way of their exponentially increased absorption in human body parts, particularly the brain. The Sage 2011 review Assessment of Radiofrequency Microwave Emissions from Wireless and Smart Meters found potential FCC exposure guidelines violations based on both time-averaged and peak power limits. Such radiation interferes with electro-physiologic processes in all living organisms.

The UK Health Protection Agency uses the World Health Organisation’s ICNIRP standard, but this standard was voted “obsolete” for modern wireless and smart devices by the EU Parliament in 2009, by 522 votes. The World Health Organisation in 2011 declared that microwave radiation is a possible carcinogen – it can cause cancer: World Health Organisation (2011), ‘IARC classifies Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields as Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans’, www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf .

The UK Government has stated, as noted above, that all wireless and smart meter deployments are on a voluntary basis – you have to inform us and ask our consent. We have the right to refuse and are acting on that right: NOW.

Smart and wireless meters such as the one you are proposing to deploy require costly installation and, as documented throughout the US in previous deployments, almost always result in higher utility rates, often disproportionately targeting the less fortunate, e.g., the unemployed, disabled and elderly who spend more time at home.

No problem has ever been reported regarding analogue meters so please come and install non-digital analogue meters, or continue to estimate bills as these have not caused problems or failed to work. Therefore there exists no need for any change to said contracts and no need for any change to the method of our bill calculation.

We the undersigned thus decline, forbid, refuse and deny the proposed contract modification and any and all additional capital outlay costs that would be imposed upon us, were we to have consented to Intelligent / Wireless / Smart Meters.

Finally, we the undersigned forbid, refuse and deny consent of any installation and use of any monitoring, eavesdropping, and surveillance devices and operations on our properties, our places of residence and our places of occupancy. That applies to and includes intelligent, wireless and Smart Meters and Smart Grids and activity monitoring devices of any and all kinds. Any attempt to install any such device or initiate such operations directed at us, other inhabitants, guests, our property or residence will constitute trespass, stalking, wiretapping and unlawful surveillance, all prohibited and punishable by law through criminal and civil complaints.

All persons, government agencies and private organizations responsible for installing or operating monitoring devices directed at or recording our activities, which we the undersigned have not specifically authorized in writing, will be fully liable for any violations, intrusions, harm or negative consequences caused or made possible by those devices whether those negative consequences are justified by “law” or not.

After this delivery the liabilities listed above may not be denied or avoided by parties named and implied in this notice. Civil Servant immunities and protections do not apply to the installation of wireless and Smart Meters and Smart Grids due to the criminal violations they represent. Notice to principal is notice to agent and notice to agent is notice to principal. All rights reserved. Respond within 10 days to each signatory to provide us evidence of your authority, if any, as well as your intent, if any, to install any intelligent, wireless or Smart Meter(s) and/or to operate any Smart Grid on or at our residence.

Signed,

[PRINT YOUR NAME]

[PRINT YOUR ADDRESS]

Letter 1

TO: _____________, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of _______________,

Hereinafter, “Respondent(s)” and/or “you”

FROM: __________

Hereinafter “Claimant” and/or the “undersigned” and/or “I”

NOTICE OF NON CONSENT

RE: Rejection of offer to install smart meters and/or automatic meter reading meters and/or similar wireless meter reading meters and/or related technology (hereinafter referred to as the “Trespassing Technology”)

Declaration is hereby made that I reject any and all offers of Trespassing Technology on, at, above or below any property, including and without limitation, the public property and the undersigned’s private home. You are hereby noticed that any such offer(s) and any and all future offers related to installation and/or implementation of the Trespassing Technology are hereby rejected by the undersigned.

If I have led you to believe that I consent to any form of Trespassing Technology this would be a Mistake and I have not, do not and will not consent to the Trespassing Technology. Any powers of attorney I may have mistakenly granted to any Utility Providers are hereby revoked and any hidden or adhesion contracts mistakenly entered into by me with any Utility Providers are hereby deemed void ab initio.

The undersigned is aware that the installation and/or implementation of the Trespassing Technology results in irreparable and serious damage to my natural physical body (my property) and other natural living men’s and women’s bodies as well as all the nature within and around my private dwelling space, due to the hazards inherent in the Trespassing Technology, including, without limitation, the radiofrequency radiation (RF) and other electromagnetic frequencies emitted and/or projected from the Trespassing Technology, including, without limitation, the RF emitted from the meters and/or the cellular antenna, central hub, distributed antenna systems, community-wide antenna relays, wireless networks and/or other destination devices to which the Trespassing Technology projects and/or receives signals (hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Radiation”).

Note that any and all installation of the Trespassing Technology directly and indirectly infringes upon my unalienable rights under the natural law, my inalienable rights under the common law and any legal rights I may possess and exercise including and not limited to:

a) My right to life and my right to be free from injury: the Trespassing Technology injuriously impacts my natural physical body by exposing said body to the Radiation from the Trespassing Technology resulting in physiological distress, disease and, in some cases death, while I dwell in and move about my private dwelling space and any contaminated public property. The Trespassing Technology also injuriously impacts the natural bodily health of bees, birds and the entire natural ecosystem which the men and women on the public property and the private property need in order to live in good health, both physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually; and

b) My right to natural liberty by obstructing me from disposing of my private dwelling space in the manner I judge most consistent with my happiness; and

c) My right to property by unlawfully installing and/or implementing the Trespassing Technology in and/or on, my private dwelling space by subjecting my said private dwelling space to trespass by the Radiation from the Trespassing Technology which creates invisible pathways and trails travelled by RF and other Radiation in and through my private property including, without limitation, in and through any real property, natural physical bodies of men and/or women on said private property and anything else that is in the way of the Radiation as it contaminates said private property without my consent, and; by devaluing private property and causing tremendous and immeasurable loss in value due to the hazards posed by the Radiation from the Trespassing Technology; and

d) My right to travel through the public property and the private property without being subjected to and/or coming into contact with, and being contaminated by, the Radiation emitting from the Trespassing Technology; and

e) My right to be secure in my person, home, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches as the Trespassing Technology has the capacity and/or potential to measure the undersigned’s timing and managing of fuel, water, electric and/or the appliances on my private dwelling space, thus constituting a search, and affecting my enjoying of my private dwelling space as well as the air and nature in the vicinity of my private property due to the hazards posed by the Trespassing Technology thus constituting a seizure; and

f) My right to be free from unjust discrimination practices by the charging of “fines” or “opt-out fees” to any men, women or persons that exercise their right not to permit utility providers installing the Trespassing Technology at their private property and/or dwelling space thereby discriminating against those that choose not to have the Trespassing Technology installed at (or pass through) their private property and/or dwelling space.

Sincerely

………………………………………

Letter 2

FROM:

(name, address, utility account #)

TO:

(utility company CEO & address)

(date)

NOTICE OF LIABILITY

Dear (CEO name),

It is common knowledge and fully supported by evidence, peer reviewed and published research, science and facts that “Advanced” utility meters ( Smart meters), including all electronic utility meters and all utility meters which contain any digital or electronic components whatsoever:

. Are fire hazards.

. Cannot withstand typical grid surges.

. Cause damage to homes and structures when damaged by surges.

. Emit biologically harmful “pulsed” EMF radiation.

. Collect personal data of private activities in the home in violation of law.

. Fatally disrupt and disable medical devices such as Pacemakers.

. Cause heating and antenna effects upon any metal body implants which damage body tissues.

. Represent excess equipment costs with more expensive meters and represent more frequent replacement of the more expensive meters, all of which costs will be passed on to ratepayers via excess and unnecessary charges.

. Represents higher service costs in the processing and storing of data collected and general maintenance of the wireless grid network.

Most of the above cannot be authorized by any lawful easement contract, and represent unlawful and highly dangerous trespass on my home for which major liabilities will arise for which you are fully and personally responsible as authorizing and administering the policies which brought about the trespass and hazards. As a utility customer, I cannot lawfully be required to assume such hazards and damages as a condition of receiving electric service or as a means of extortion of additional service payments in return for safe, lawful and reliable metering which has been provided for many decades without any such penalty charges.

NOTICE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

If you are planning to have a Smart meter installed at my home, I will require full bonding, insurance and assurance of liability for all hazards listed above and any hazards not yet anticipated. That assumption of liability and responsibility must include your providing a name and address where my claims may be filed and paid WITHOUT HESITATION OR QUESTION to remedy any harm, injury, loss, damage or violation of rights caused by the above described electronic utility metering hazards, defects and offensive features and functions.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTICED THAT YOU ARE PERSONALLY CAUSING HARM AND DAMAGE WITH YOUR METERING DEVICES AND PROGRAMS, AND YOU ARE FULLY AND PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR ALL CONSEQUENCES OF THAT METERING POLICY IF YOU CAUSE THE ABOVE HAZARDS AND VIOLATIONS BY YOUR INSTRUCTION TO INSTALL ANY SMART METERS AT MY HOME

If, you fail to provide me with only safe and lawful metering at any time, and you additionally fail or refuse to provide the above assurance of liability and responsibility timely, you will be in default and fully and personally accountable, liable and responsible for all consequences, damages, harm, injuries, losses, violations of rights, trespass, bad faith, negligence, nuisance and malice associated with your electronic metering devices and programs. Your failure to timely provide insurance and claim information described above is agreement to personally pay for all claims as described above. You will also, by any failure or refusal to provide insurance and claim contacts described above, be putting up and offering your company's resources for prompt and uncontested settlement of my claims whenever they may be submitted.

Any failure to pay any reasonable claim within 30 days will obligate you to pay all collection costs, legal costs and expenses, court fees and all incidental costs and expenses I may find necessary to secure settlement and collection of my claims. I recommend providing contacts to me of your insurance carrier and providing the wording of your policy/s immediately. Any policy that is not provided and/or does not clearly provide the protection requested will be default on this notice.

All terms and conditions above automatically take effect upon your default on the above conditions and terms. A simple denial of this requirement and notice is insufficient because the hazards are serious, real and confirmed by overwhelming evidence and you are responsible for causing those hazards and violations.

Any rebuttal to this notice must be supported by fact, law and evidence and must be submitted to me timely. Urgency dictates that no “grace” period will be allowed beyond 21 days from this delivery other than reasonable time for mail delivery. Failure to respond in writing within 21 days constitutes full and final default. If you require up to 15 additional days to respond you may request that in writing prior to default. I will determine if your metering activities and policies will allow the extension and we will notify you in writing if extension is granted.

Notice to principal is notice to agent and notice to agent is notice to principle. This is an adhesion contract with power and effect by default.

Sincerely

………………………………………

USA - Notice of Liability

NOTICE OF NON-CONSENT FOR ‘SMART’ METER INSTALLATION, NOTICE OF LIABILITY

For the attention of the Chief Executive and other Board Directors.

Be advised, that you and all other parties are hereby denied consent for installation and use of any and all ‘Smart’ Meters or any other surveillance and activity monitoring device, or devices, at my property and/or place of residence as noted herein.

Installation and use of any surveillance and activity monitoring device that sends and receives communications technology is hereby refused and prohibited. Consent is legally required for installation of any surveillance device and any device that will collect and transmit private and personal data to undisclosed and unauthorised parties for undisclosed and unauthorised purposes. Authorisation for sharing of personal and private information may only be given by the originator and subject of that information. That authorisation is hereby denied and refused with regard to the advised property and all its occupants.

‘Smart’ Meters violate many of my human rights, such as those laid out by the European Convention on Human Rights under Article 1 of the First Protocol, Article 2 (right to life), Article 3 (prohibition of torture/degrading treatment), Article 5 (right to liberty and security), Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) and Article 12 – (right to marry and to found a family).

‘Smart’ Meters cause endangerment to residents through many factors and my reasons for denying consent for installation include:

1. Wireless ‘Smart’ Meters, when activated, emit intense, pulsed bursts of non-ionising, RF microwave radiation. More than 5,000 studies have shown that non-ionising microwave radiation/RF EMF is harmful to humans, animals and plants.

2. On 31st May 2011, the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) categorised RF EMFs as a possible CARCINOGEN (Class 2b) – the same as lead, DDT, chloroform & methylmercury.

3. On 6th May 2011, the Council of Europe issued a report titled “Potential dangers of EMFs and their effect on the environment” in which they called for an IMMEDIATE reduction in exposure to EMFs by children. The Council advocates a precautionary principle be applied to wireless emissions to prevent public health disaster akin to “tobacco, leaded petrol and asbestos”. ‘Smart’ Meters will increase – not decrease – the EMF exposure to members of a household and their neighbours.

4. As demonstrated by Daniel Hirsch, Senior Nuclear Policy Lecturer at UCSC, ‘Smart’ Meters can expose the body to 160x to 800x times as much microwave radiation as mobile phones. ‘Smart’ Meters can emit intense pulses of radiation in excess of 190,000 times every day.

5. Human, animal and cell culture studies indicate long-term systemic health effects from RF microwave radiation, including hormone disruption, DNA damage, leakage of blood-brain- barrier, sperm count reduction & damage, sleep disorders, learning difficulties, attention deficit & hyperactivity disorders, dementia and cancer including leukemia and brain glioma (tumours). There is concern that pregnant women & children are particularly vulnerable.

6. The ICNIRP safety standards which the UK Government and HPA continue to use fail to recognise the non-thermal, biological effects of microwave radiation. These standards were voted obsolete by the European Parliament, 522 to 16 votes – yet still remain in use in the UK.

7. As highlighted by Dr. David Carpenter (Director of the Institute of Health and Environment – University of Albany – and former head of the New York Department of Public Health), there is evidence that exposure to RF radiation increases the risk of cancer, increases damage to the nervous system, causes electro-sensitivity, has adverse reproductive effects and a variety of other effects on different organ systems. He has stated on record that there is “no justification for the statement that ‘Smart’ Meters have no adverse health effects”.

8. European surveys have shown at least 1 in 20 people are moderately or severely sensitive to RF EMF radiation, experiencing a broad range of debilitating symptoms. The number of sufferers is rising rapidly. This is problematic and in some cases life-changing for sufferers, and will place further pressure on the National Health Service as well as impacting business productivity.

9. In January 2011, the American Association of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has called for the complete removal of ‘Smart’ Meters and a return to safe analogue due to scientific and medical studies repeatedly showing health risks from exposure to microwaves emitted from wireless devices.

10. In March 2012, Dr Andrew Goldsworthy’s research warned that Water ‘Smart’ Meters, via their strong RF microwave emissions, can severely reduce water quality, leading to increased toxicity of poisons present in the body. This is particularly concerning for areas like London where there are still lead pipes in use – electromagnetically-conditioned water flow can strip lead from pipes, leading to an increase in toxin intake into the body and the food-chain.

11. ‘Smart’ Meters monitor household activity and occupancy in violation of my rights to privacy and domestic security.

12. ‘Smart” Meters identify individual electrical devices inside the home and record when they are operated causing invasion of privacy.

13. They transmit wireless signals which may be intercepted by unauthorized and unknown parties. Those signals can be used to monitor behavior and occupancy and they can be used by criminals to aid criminal activity against the occupants.

14. Data about occupant’s daily habits and activities are collected, recorded and stored in permanent databases which are accessed by parties not authorized or invited to know and share that private data by those whose activities were recorded.

15. Those with access to the ‘Smart’ Meter databases can review a permanent history of household activities complete with calendar and time-of-day metrics to gain a highly invasive and detailed view of the lives of the occupants.

16. Those databases may be shared with, or fall into the hands of criminals, blackmailers, corrupt law enforcement, private hackers of wireless transmissions, power company employees, and other unidentified parties who may act against the interests of the occupants under metered surveillance.

17. It may be possible with analysis of certain ‘Smart’ Meter data for unauthorized and distant parties to determine medical conditions, sexual activities, and physical locations of persons within the home, vacancy patterns and personal information and habits of the occupants.

18. Energy/utility companies and Government agencies do not have the lawful right to monitor, manage and control my utility usage. Profiling and monitoring of my energy and utility usage is a gross invasion of privacy and will be susceptible to misuse in the wrong hands.

19. A one year study in Toronto, Canada, showed the energy/utility bills have gone up in 80% of cases, many by more than 50%.

20. The UK Government has said ‘Smart’ Meters will cost more than £11billion for estimated savings of just £25 per home/year – and that saving will only possible if customers have at least two ‘Smart’ Meters and succeed in changing their own behaviour to create the savings. Not only will there be a need for this £11billion to be clawed back, in part, through my energy/utility bills, but many new ‘Smart’ Meters only have a 10 year lifespan before requiring replacement – which is a shorter lifespan than current analogue meters. They will potentially require more regular servicing too.

21. Wireless transmissions of my personal energy usage, with information about the devices I use, when I use them and what I am doing with them at any given moment, will be available to your organisation and any potential hackers.

22. Smart meters can be hacked, have been hacked and will continue to be hacked. By deploying millions of ‘Smart’ Meters with the same software, firmware and hardware, they become a highly-concentrated, strategic target for any malicious hackers and will endanger the community if an attacker, for example, can switch the power on and off from remote en masse. This makes ‘Smart’ Meters dangerous and a liability to the bill-payers who would have to ultimately pay for any damage through higher bills. The FBI has warned that ‘Smart’ Meters hacking real and is “likely to spread”.

23. Ethical hackers in Germany have shown how easy it is to unlawfully access data from ‘Smart’ Meters and to remotely control them. This is a risk to me, my family and our entire energy grid. Former CIA Director James Woolsey has called ‘Smart’ Grid a “really, really stupid idea”.

24. In a wireless ‘Smart’ Grid, my entire home will become a node on the Internet. This means my home and device usage will suddenly become available to hackers, who can use the data to analyse when certain people are at home, e.g. young children.

25. In the US, this data has been sold by energy companies to 3rd parties, e.g. police, corporate marketing departments and insurance companies. ‘Smart’ Meters represent pieces of invasive surveillance equipment within my home. I may have nothing to hide but I believe that I have the right to defend my privacy and my right to decide how I use my utilities which you provide to me as a service.

26. Smart’ Meters will make it far easier to disconnect customers remotely – a particular concern in light of the hacking threats, especially to ‘Smart’ Water Meters.

27. In North America, ‘Smart’ Meters have been shown to explode, cause fires, and can interfere with sensitive electrical devices such as heart pacemakers.

28. Smart meters are not protected from EMP attacks, large EMP or localized EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulses).

29. Disabling the receiver will not prevent other forms of “hacks”. For example, a malicious attacker could confuse the internal CPU, reset it, change random memory locations, change the KWH reading, force a power disconnect, or completely disable a ‘Smart’ Meter with a simple coil of wire and a small battery. This can’t happen with a mechanical meter. It is well known that a wide EMP can take out car computers; ‘Smart’ Meters will make that possible on the city wide electric infrastructure.

30. A thief or burglar could use the same EMP or hacking methods to turn off the house power even if the electrical switch box is locked.

31. Scientists have widely refuted claims that ‘Smart’ Meters are ‘green’. There is a significant (and growing) body of work showing ‘Smart’ Meters actually harm nature and our environment.

32. ‘Smart’ Meters, in tandem with In-Home-Display units, are likely to consume far more energy than the old analogue meters do.

33. The Council of Europe’s May 2011 report on RF microwave radiation indicated that hundreds of studies have identified significant impacts of sustained RF microwave radiation on our natural environment, including: stress reactions and genetic problems in plants, trees, animals and insects, problems in migratory animals like birds and bees, birth defects in calves and fertility problems in herds.

34. Tree deaths, plant die-offs and bee colony collapse disorder cases have also been reported shortly after Smart Meter installation/activation in the United States.

I am exercising my lawful right to forbid, refuse and deny consent for the installation and use of any monitoring, eavesdropping, and surveillance devices on my property, my place of residence and my place of occupancy. That applies to and includes ‘Smart’ Meters and surveillance and activity monitoring devices of any and all kinds. Any attempt to install any such device directed at me, other occupants, my property or residence will constitute trespass, stalking, wiretapping and unlawful surveillance and endangerment of health and safety, all prohibited and punishable by law through criminal and civil complaints.

All persons, government agencies and private organizations responsible for installing or operating monitoring devices directed at or recording my activities, which I have not specifically authorized in writing, will be fully liable for any violations, intrusions, harm or negative consequences caused or made possible by those devices.

This is legal notice. After this delivery the liabilities listed above may not be denied or avoided by parties named and implied in this notice. Civil Servant immunities and protections do not apply to the installation of ‘Smart’ Meters due to the criminal violations they represent.

I reserve the right to amend this notice and complaint at any time, this is not a complete list of concerns since this technology is new and new information is being found every day. Concerns listed here are not in any particular order.

SIGNED:

NAME:

DATE:

ADDRESS: