Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Smart Meters in communities?

[Joanie Connors (jvcphd]

What's a Smart Meter? And why are they installing them?

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Valerie McIntyre
<valerie333 [at] windsong.bc.ca> wrote:
>
> Greetings, Friends. I'm at WindSong Cohousing near Vancouver, BC. This
> summer BC Hydro is beginning to install wireless Smart Meters throughout the
> province. There's a last-minute, but quickly-growing awareness in the
> general public here of the possible health impacts as well as of the
> infringement-of-privacy aspect.
>
> I'd like to know if other communities are discussing or have reached
> consensus on either allowing or resisting the installation of Smart Meters,
> and if resisting, how that decision is being enacted and received by local
> power authorities?
>
> Thanks!
> Valerie McIntyre
> WindSong Cohousing
> <www.windsong.bc.ca>
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