The Center for School Mold Help

A leading expert on this topic, Cindy Sage of Santa Barbara, CA, has explained that having a damp, moldy environment and RF emissions exposure compounds the problems. Sage's new study shows Smart Meters in CA are likely exceeding even the outdated FCC standards. Dr. Dan Harper, of Solana Beach, CA, has explained that many of his environmentally ill patients reported typical RF radiation emissions health effects following the installation of their Smart Meters. For more information watch an excellent presentation on YouTube, The Dark Side of Smart Meters.

The Director of the Center for School Mold Help, Susan Brinchman, of La Mesa, CA, had a Smart Meter involuntarily installed by her gas and electric utility, SDG&E, on her bedroom wall 7 months ago, very close to the head of her bed. This has resulted in a significant increase in her environmental health problems. No warning was given by the utility and she had no idea that this was a potential danger until severe symptoms were experienced six months later. Her doctor demanded that the Smart Meter be removed in a letter to the utility ,and SDG&E (local utility) declined the request, to date. Read about this terrible, ongoing experience on Smart meter alert | The Canary Report.

When trying to sort out what could be making you sick in a damp building, don't forget to include the possibility of other factors, such as WI-FI, banks of Smart Meters, and their interaction with damp environments and effects on occupants.

Find out if your state Public Utilities Commission has approved the Smart Meters for deployment. You may wish to research this topic further, and decide if you want to work on prevention of further pollution of our environment by electrosmog indoors (and outdoors). Learn more at www.emfsafetynetwork.org for ideas of what can be done to safeguard your family and school from Smart Meters and other RF emitting technologies.

 There is an option that should be made available: the use of digital meters utilitizing shielded cables for transmission - rather than wireless. The Maine PUC is looking into this, as are several cities in CA, including Arcata and Fairfax.(SMH)

UPDATED 1/13/11: CA COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, with strong links to their affiliate and architect of the Smart Meter program, the US Dept of Energy http://doe.gov, has issued a report in Jan., 2011 that admits more research needs to be done and that health effects have been reported in the literature, but finds no further safety standards are needed - essentially, a key statement that encourages the ongoing Smart Meter installations in CA and the United States. The CCST report makes heavy use of utility industry science and (obsolete) FCC standards that do not apply to non-ionizing RF emissions. We question the CA Council on Science and Technology's ability to produce an unbiased report, with DOE as their affiliate. The CCST report reads like those that minimized the health effects of mold (ie. ACOEM), earlier in the decade, until the WHO stepped in. Many, including our site visitors with environmental health concerns and background, are decrying the use of the general population as guinea pigs for forced RF emissions with the installation of Smart Meters. We call for a full accounting of all conflicts of interest with the CCST, its board, the panel who worked on this report, and the basis for their findings. (SMH)

Resources: 

A Briefing Letter: What You Need to Know About Smart Meters (Sage)

Assessment of Radiofrequency Microwave Radiation Emissions from
Smart Meters (Sage Report, Jan. 2011)

Public Health Implications of Wireless Technologies

(David O. Carpenter, PhD; Cindy Sage)

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