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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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| | | | Federal Case Being Heard Today!
| Oral Arguments to be heard!
Friday September 21, 2012 @ 1:00 pm
Join NSMA in Courtroom 1225 at the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse,
230 S. Dearborn St., Chicago.
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DONATE NOW
| NSMA is a grass roots, self funded organization that relies on donations from the community to continue our mission of educating and advocating for Naperville and Illinois residents to have the right to choose to retain their analog meters.
Help us raise $25,000 to support the federal case and the volunteer efforts to
educate the community. 
Please donate now.
Contact us to volunteer. |
Whistle blower files complaint with direct knowledge of dangers
| January 2012 -
Don Baker was fired from Sensus in Alabama after repeatedly alerting his management to the many dangerous defects present in the smart meter they were manufacturing, model iConA.
"As he states in the complaint he filed, this whistleblower reported serious flaws in design and functioning that could lead to electrical danger, overheating, and/or fire. In fact, the failure rate of the meters was twenty times higher than it was supposed to be, and the engineer contends that at least two house fires were the result. Sensus meters are used by utilities across the U.S. and in Canada, such as PEPCO, Alliant Energy, Alabama Power, and NVE."
Read full complaint here.
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More on fires:
2010 Article from Cleburne News (AL), which has since been scrubbed from their website: http://stopsmartmeters.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/CleburneNews-smart-meters-Feb2010.pdf
2010 Article from Montgomery Advertiser (AL) which has been since scrubbed from their website:
"The meter was ... replaced five days before their double-wide burned to the ground..."
http://stopsmartmeters.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Montgomery-AL-smart-meters-Feb2010.pdf
2009 Article from Georgia new site, since removed:
"...Steady stream of complaints about the meters since the devices went into general use ....The firemen told him they are keeping records and turning in their findings to the electric company."
http://stopsmartmeters.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Electrical-fires-Georgia-Feb2009.pdf
Article from Atlanta news site, since scrubbed from website:
"A power surge ... After firefighters put out the blaze, they said it reignited again hours later."
http://stopsmartmeters.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Atlanta-fire-smart-meter-Jan2010.pdf
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How many fires will it take?
Call or write the council and demand a no cost opt ordinance be issued in Naperville.
http://www.naperville.il.us/council.aspx
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Attention: ComEd & Ameren Customers
| 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 residents are encouraged to comment.
Contact the Citizen Utility Board to express your concerns about the installation of wireless smart meters in your community. Tell CUB you want the smart meter program to be an opt in program and the technology to be installed safely.
1-800-669-5556
http://www.citizensutilityboard.org/ |
Power Rally Wrap Up
|  | | Take Back Your Power Rally |
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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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