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Plans for Renewable Energy - Spin and Lies for a Global Energy Grid

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by Joyce Nelson

The people of BC have been told repeatedly that the province is a "net importer" of electricity and needs to become "self-sufficient" - claims that are used to justify everything from "run of river" independent power producers (IPPs), to energy mega-projects such as Bute Inlet and the Site C dam. But a US electricity expert told me that California has been "buying a tremendous amount of power from BC over the past decade."

What's Wrong with the Wireless Smart Meter

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Quote: The reason for smart meters is to sell smart meters, and then smart appliances.

An excerpt from Joyce Nelson's upcoming article, "High Voltage: Spin and Lies of a Global Energy Grid," in the upcoming September/October Watershed Sentinel. 

 "The truth is that smart meters aren't exactly necessary for a smart grid," stated Forbes (Feb. 1, 2011), "but for technical and economic reasons, they're here to stay."  

 Just what those technical and economic reasons are,

Wireless Hydro Meters - Radiation Concerns Raised

by Walter Patrick McInnes

Regarding Patrick Duffy's article, Concerns raised over safety & pricing of the installation of wireless hydro meters by BC Hydro in the June 26, Victoria Times-Colonist , page D7.

Duffy quotes Provincial Health officer Dr Perry Kendall. "I don't think there is any convincing evidence that the levels [of (rfr) radio frequency radiation] that we are being exposed to are in fact causing harm" I find this statement strange as there are thousands of peer reviewed studies that show adverse health effects as a result of exposure at the levels experienced when immersed in a WI-FI hot spot, or when using a cell phone, and when you head is just inches from a so called smart meter.

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