Smart Meters - Public Service Commission

I have spoken to the board of BWP at a public meeting. The best they could come up with is the suggestion
that I move into another city. This is problematic because the closest city to me is Los Angeles. To transfer my
housing voucher to Los Angeles is a Sysephian task. The housing authority in Los Angeles (HACLA) is a poorlyrun,
huge bureaucracy that has been known to cause tenants to lose their housing vouchers through
mismanagement. I have called five different telephone numbers to try to get some guidelines about
transferring — all to no avail. Meanwhile I struggle to keep my health and my life together. I take anti-seizure
medication and my medication schedule has been disrupted by the random and brutal way I am living right
now.
This is so very wrong. I have been displaced from my home of 23 years due to the installation of the meters. To
be sure, I am currently in the minority of people who are known as electrosensitive but I do not believe that I
should not I be subjected to the suffering and losses that are my current reality. If I were physically challenged
and needed a wheelchair would I be thrown out of my home? I think not — there are laws that protect against
this. Why, then, should I be denied the fundamental right of a home — a home that I have been healthy and
happy in until the meters were foisted upon me?
Where can I go? My 84-year-old mother lives 10 minutes from me and I believe that it is my duty and right to
remain close to her in the event that she needs to call upon me for assistance. As a disabled woman (I’ve had
four brain surgeries), life is difficult enough without being displaced by a technology that I have neither asked
for nor consented to. I consider myself to be a resourceful and strong person, but I am feeling overwhelmed by
what I am facing: illness and homelessness. I am college-educated and have a middle-class background but
even this does not equip me to deal with my current challenges caused directly by the smart meters.
I believe that the utility companies have relied upon poorly-designed studies conducted by organizations
(CCST and EPRI) that have ties to the communications industry, the utility companies, and that have financial
interests in the smart grid infrastructure. I do not think that a thoroughgoing study into health consequences
has been performed by either of these entities. The non-thermal effects of non-ionizing radiation (especially
pulsed RF) has NOT been studied by these so-called “impartial” organizations. I think it is an outrageous and
tragic turn of events that is affecting me and many other people. I have heard three of my neighbors (young
people with no history of electrosensitivity) complain of headaches and insomnia since the meters were
installed — and they weren’t even aware that they had received them! I am absolutely sure I am not alone in my
suffering.
Your Honor, I ask you to take into account my situation when you consider what is being perpetrated upon the
citizens of California. This cannot continue. I may be collateral damage — it’s too late for me. But, please, think
about the population and countless numbers of people who are having their lives upset and threatened by these
dangerous devices.
I am not a believer in conspiracy theories, but I do believe what my body is telling me. This is real, this is true,
and it should not be allowed to continue.
Thank you for consideration.
Sincerely,
Ms. Shane Gregory, Burbank, CA
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from: July 26, 2010
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