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Naperville Smart Meter Awareness
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| | | | Empowering the community to
"Take Back Your Power"
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informing the community about the risks of
"smart" meters.
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| | | | Donate Now
| Donate Now to help support legal action for Naperville Smart Meter Awareness.
On May 31, we enter the next phase of our legal battle to protect our right to retain our analog meters. Without help from the community, this grassroots effort will not be possible. Already lawsuits in Maine, Hawaii, and California are producing positive results for citizens. And citizens in California, Vermont, Oregon and the UK all have the right to retain their analog meters.
Click here to Donate. |
Take Back Your Power
May 31, 2012 Chicago
| Join NSMA on May 31, 2012, at 9:30 am, in Courtroom 1403 (Judge Chang), Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse, 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL.
Federal Judge Chang will hear arguments from NSMA Attorney Doug Ibendahl and the City of Naperville's attorney.
NSMA filed a motion requesting that, as this lawsuit moves forward, home and business owners can request to opt-out and retain their analog meter until a final ruling is made by the judge. Further, the motion requests that the judge order the City to re-install an analog meter to a home or business upon request.
View the Judge's order here.
For full information on the motion, visit
http://www.napervillesmartmeterawareness.org/federal-lawsuit/ |
Al Qaeda Video Calls for "Electronic Jihad"
| "The al Qaeda video calls upon the "covert mujahidin" to launch cyber attacks against the U.S. networks of both government and critical infrastructure, including the electric grid."
"This is the clearest evidence we've seen that al Qaeda and other terrorist groups want to attack the cyber systems of our critical infrastructure," Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said in a statement.
See full story here.
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James Woosley, Former Director of the CIA has been warning the US about the vulnerabilities in the smart grid. He says the federal government's oversight of grid security is inadequate and attacks on the grid are "entirely possible."
"So called smart grid is really stupid."
See VIDEO here.
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Naperville City Council moves forward with wireless smart grid installation despite consistent warnings from government officials as to the cyber-security risks and multiple warnings from medical academies regarding the public health risks.
Council continues to try to prevent an analog option while national and international governments are providing citizens the right to retain their analog meters.
Is this the type of Naperville you want to live in? |
Public Comment to ICC on
ComEd Smart Grid Program
| Illinois residents need to take action now!
ComEd has submitted their Smart Grid Plan to the ICC, but it is not without confusion. Public comment on this very important project is crucial.
Contact the ICC for public comment by clicking here: Comments Scroll to Docket # 12-0298
Details: ComEd AMI Docket 12-0298
All Illinois residents are encouraged to comment. |
Federal Lawsuit Status Update
| On April 19, Judge Chang began proceedings to rule on the motion for injunction to halt the forced installation of smart meters on Naperville residents until reasonable options are afforded them.
The outcome of the preliminary hearing was as expected. Despite the city's attempt to spin this as a victory, the judge adhered to the rules of proceedings. The hearing was a briefing schedule and nothing more.
The next hearing is scheduled for May 31, 2012.
Click here for more information and to see the court documents. |
Power Rally Wrap Up
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Was your analog meter replaced without your consent?
| If you arrived home to find a tag on your door stating that a smart meter was installed, even though you had a do not install sign on your meter, contact us immediately:
napervillesmartmeters@yahoo.com |
| Take Back Your Power: The Film
| Smart Meters are being refused across the country and worldwide. View the trailer for the upcoming film documentary that chronicles this debate worldwide.
For more about this film, inlcuding release dates go to: http://thepowerfilm.org/ |
|  | Legal Action in Naperville
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Donate Now to Protect Your Rights
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Law Suits, Complaints and Resolutions
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| | | Meter Guards, Electricians & No Trespass Signs
| Across the country, residents have taken matters into their own hands. They have guarded their analog meters. They have hired electricians to de-install smart meters when utilities have refused. They are locking up their gates, posting NO TRESPASS signs and protecting their property.*
 
Click here for more pictures:
This is no longer about smart meters.
This is about protecting your personal property.
This is about protecting your constitutional rights.
You are protected under the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendment and the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
This is a utility policy that is being marketed as a mandated project. It is an opt in program.
Stand your ground! Protect your property!
It is your home!
You have the right to protect your property from something that may harm you!
Take back your power!
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| More that you can do
| Many residents do not want a smart meter installed on their home. They want the choice and according to the U.S. Constitution and the Energy Policy Act of 2005, we have that right. The city has denied its residents the choice.
According to the city you will have opportunities to refuse the wireless smart meter, but you must sign up for the non-wireless alternative and pay the monthly penalty fee to protect your home and family. If after the 3rd attempt to install a meter on your home, and you have not signed up for the alternative, the city says it will bring a police escort to your home to intimidate you into allowing the installation of the wireless smart meter.
We feel this is outrageous. There must be something serious wrongly with smart meters if the city has to threaten you to install one.
Visit our website for more information on what you can do. Click here.
Contact the Attorney General's office (317-814-3000) or click here
Contact the Governor (312-814-2121) or click here to email
Contact Naperville's Chief of Police. (630-420-6666)
Contact the Better Government Association (312-520-4999); ashaw@bettergov.org
Contact the ACLU (312-201-9740) or acluofillinois@aclu-il.org
Contact the press.
Tell them Naperville is not a "police state" and residents won't accept being threatened or forced to install a meter on their home that they do not want.
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| Sign the Petition
|  If you have already made up your mind and don't want smart meters in our community then sign the Cease and Desist petition.
Tell the city to stop the install of smart meters in Naperville.
Email: Thousands of residents have already signed on.
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| *NSMA cannot legally advise whether or not to do any of these items. Each homeowner must make this decision after considering and accepting responsibility for any ramifications.
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| | | Naperville Smart Meter Awareness is a non-profit 501(c)4 group of concerned citizens educating the public about the risks of wireless smart meters. We are comprised of lawyers, technology professionals, health advocates, accountants, business owners and parents in our community.
Smart meters are currently being installed in Naperville despite a complaint for federal injunction and on-going investigations by the Illinois Attorney General for Open Meetings Act violations by the City of Naperville in conjunction with this project.
Smart meters pose risks in the areas of privacy, costs, security, and health and are not a federally mandated program. Our mission is to educate the residents of Naperville by bringing all pertinent information to the public and in doing so, advocate for a smarter solution in Naperville.
www.napervillesmartmeterawareness.org
napervillesmartmeters@yahoo.com
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