Smart Meters - Public Service Commission

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If CMP does, in fact, take the city to court, the Spanish-owned company would earn itself the
dubious distinction of First Utility in the World to Sue a Municipality for Trying to Protect Residents.
Even in California, where 40 communities have halted smart meter installation, utilities there have
been respecting and accommodating those official statements of concern and requests for more time,
rather than taking towns to court for taking a stand.
The letter from the law firm of Pierce Atwood to Bath’s City Attorney was leaked to the Smart Meter
Safety Coalition, and states:
CMP requests that the Council rescind the ordinance immediately. If not, CMP is prepared to take
necessary legal measures in federal and/or state court to challenge the legality of the Ordinance.
Read the letter in its entirety. (http://smartmetersafetydotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/pierceatwood-letter.pdf)
The Bath City Council passed the ordinance to protect residents’ health, safety, security, privacy and
pocketbooks. Across the state and across the world, documented reports are pouring in of
malfunctioning pacemakers, malfunctioning Wi-Fi, overbilling, electrical fires, heart failure,
vomiting, insomnia — and the list goes on. Thankfully, despite CMP’s best efforts to cover up the
issues of concerns and force every customer to accept a wireless smart meter on their private
property, the Maine Public Utilities Commission recently ruled that CMP must let people keep their
current meter — for a price.
While paid opt-outs are better than no opt-outs at all, one reason Bath city councilors passed the
ordinance is that they don’t believe people should have to pay to protect their health, safety, security
and privacy.
Especially now that the World Health Organization puts wireless radiation in the same
“carcinogenic hazard” category as engine exhaust, chloroform and DDT, it seems fair and
reasonable to want to protect one’s family from exposure to a possible carcinogen.
That’s why the Bath ordinance makes so much sense. Everyone who wants a smart meter gets one.
They just have to ask. Which means, hopefully, they’ve looked at the critical issues and have made
the very personal, very individual decision that the potential benefits outweigh the potential risks.
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