Healthy Bellies: Smart Meters = Hoax + LAST CALL for your chance to Comment on PURPA

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Action Alert 1: Last Chance to Comment at PURPA Hearing...
Volunteers Needed to Read Expert Testimony

The City has denied our Expert Witnesses and Evidence at the PURPA Hearings.

Critical Action:

Submit your comments through March 19 and attend the hearings:

1) Use the following statement, or submit your own, indicating your stance on the smart meter issue. The statement should include your reasons and sources.

2) Email statement to lafeberp@naperville.il.us and Napervillesmartmeters@yahoo.com. Please copy us so we have a record of all statements submitted.

3) Contact napervillesmartmeters@yahoo.com if you are willing to read a prepared statement.

News to Take Seriously

National Institute for Science, Law & Public Policy calls smart meters a hoax

"The smart meter is a canard - a story or a hoax based on specious and

grandiose claims about energy benefits ostensibly derived from the promise

of 'two-way' communication with the customer. ... These energy benefits

have not been delivered, or have been only minimally delivered by the meter

networks. The present smart meter focus is wholly misguided for reasons

that are technical, economic, privacy related, public health-related, and

structural (i.e., related to a dysfunctional industry/market structure)."

"The [smart] meter networks squander vast sums of money, create enormous

risks to privacy and security, introduce known and still unknown possible

risks to public health, and sour the public on the true promise of the smart

grid. Data to be collected by the smart meters, including intimate personal

details of citizens' lives, is not necessary to the basic purpose of the

smart grid ... Instead, the meter data is serving to create an extraneous

market for consumer data mining and advertising ..."

"The [smart] meter has come to symbolize a 'bait-and-switch' situation,

mainly to the benefit the utility industry and its vendors as well as to

politicians and bureaucrats. In their present form, smart meters offer few

or no benefits to consumers, but pose significant risks and costs to them

and to society."

Read the report at Here

Don't give up your rights.

City of Naperville = CON

Don't be CONned or bullied into giving up your freedom.

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NSMA is a grass roots, community-funded organization that relies on donations from supporters like you to continue our mission of educating and advocating for Naperville residents and all of America to have the right to choose to retain their analog meters.

Help us raise $25,000 to support the active federal lawsuit filed in December 2011 and the volunteer efforts to educate the community.

Please donate now. Email NapervilleSmartMeters@yahoo.com to volunteer.

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, safety 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.