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MARCH 15, 2022 REPLAY: Brought To You by a Grass Roots Collaborative Effort: Co-Hosted by Longmont Residents Doe Kelly and Marianne Niehaus of Straight Talk With Marianne
NON-IONIZING (SMART METER, CELL PHONE, ETC.) RADIATION IS SHOWN TO HAVE A CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP WITH ELECTRO-HYPERSENSITIVITY (ALSO KNOWN AS “EHS / ES / EMS”).
CURRENT AMI / SMART METERS COULD BE OBSOLETE IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS, MEANING LONGMONT'S ROLLOUT MAY BE A WASTE OF RATEPAYER MONEY.
OKAY, DID YOU PASS THE SMART METER POP QUIZ? IF NOT, YOU NEED TO CLICK AGAIN ON EACH OF THE ABOVE LIVE LINKS AND DO A LITTLE MORE STUDYING!!!!! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PURPOSE AND STORY BEHIND THE SMART METER TOWN HALL PROJECT THE SMART METER TOWN HALL WAS CREATED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING A MORE BALANCED EDUCATION TO THE CITIZENRY OF LONGMONT ON THE TOPIC OF SMART METERS. IN SPEAKING TO MANY RESIDENTS, WE FOUND THAT PEOPLE AS A GENERALIZATION DON'T KNOW WHAT A SMART METER IS, ITS TOUTED BENEFITS, NOR ITS NUMEROUS QUALITIES THAT SHOULD CAUSE A THINKING PUBLIC TO THINK LONG AND HARD BEFORE EMBRACING AND IMPLEMENTING SUCH A SCHEME. PEOPLE WHO PAY ATTENTION TO BOTH CITY COUNCIL, AND INFORMATION THAT COMES IN THE CITYLINE NEWSLETTER (THAT COMES WITH YOUR ELECTRICITY BILL IF YOU ARE A LONGMONT POWER COMPANY/LPC CUSTOMER) WILL KNOW THAT THE IDEA OF BRINGING SMART METERS TO LONGMONT WAS, FIRST (IN JAN. OF 2020), BEING STUDIED, AND SECOND (AND MORE RECENTLY), A DONE DEAL - THE SMART METERS BEING PERCEIVED BY THE CITY AS THE CORNERSTONE FOR LONGMONT'S 2030 GOAL OF ACHIEVING 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY. AND THUS, THE BELIEF BECAME THE METERS WERE THE "SAVIOR" OF LONGMONT'S CLIMATE CRISIS, AND #1 PRIORITY ON ITS PATH TO RENEWABLE ENERGY. DON'T BELIEVE ME? LOOK IT ALL UP ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE, AND ALSO LOOK UP THE LONGMONT CLIMATE ACTION TASK FORCE.
FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS, THE TOPIC OF THE METERS HAS BEEN A RECURRING ONE AT LONGMONT CITY COUNCIL, BOTH IN "STUDYING" THE SUBJECT AS WELL AS MAKING PLANS FOR ITS REALITY. THIS, IN SPITE OF VARIOUS EDUCATED AND CREDENTIALED PEOPLE ADVOCATING FOR SAFE (AND "SMARTER") TECHNOLOGY SPEAKING UP, REPEATEDLY, AT CITY COUNCIL AND ELSEWHERE, ABOUT THE "DARK SIDE," SO TO SPEAK, OF THIS TECHNOLOGY, AND ON WHY THEY ARE NOT SMART (NOR SAFE) FOR LONGMONT. YOU WILL NOT, HOWEVER, FIND ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE IN THE PUBLISHED INFORMATION ON THE CITY'S SITE, ONLY ALL OF THE BENEFITS TO BE HAD BY THESE METERS, WITH NONE OF THE DETRIMENTS. SO GOES MARKETING!!!
IN OCT. 2020, LONGMONT DID, INDEED, HAVE A STUDY SESSION AT CITY COUNCIL ON THE METERS, WITH THREE SO CALLED EXPERTS. UNFORTUNATELY, ONLY ONE OF THOSE EXPERTS WAS A TRUE SUBJECT EXPERT, DR. TIMOTHY SCHOECHLE, PhD OF BOULDER, AND HE IS OUR SECOND FEATURED SPEAKER ON OUR MARCH '22 VIRTUAL SMART METER TOWN HALL. THE OTHER TWO INDIVIDUALS PRESENTING THAT EVENING EITHER HAD A TIE TO THE SMART METER (aka AMI / ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE) INDUSTRY (THIS 'EXPERT' WAS ULTIMATELY HIRED BY THE CITY AS AN ADVISOR ON THE PROJECT!) OR WAS NOT QUALIFIED, AS AN AIR QUALITY ENGINEER FOR THE BOULDER COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO SPEAK ON THE CHOSEN SUBJECT, IN THIS CASE, THE HARMFUL EFFECTS (OR NOT!) OF EMF / ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION. AND THUS, THIS PARTICULAR SPEAKER, WHO ACKNOWLEDGED HE WASN'T REALLY QUALIFIED TO SPEAK ON THIS SUBJECT, HAD NO OPTION BUT TO GIVE THE CITY A PASS ON WHETHER THESE METERS CARRIED ANY SAFETY HAZARDS BY WAY OF (MICROWAVE) RADIO FREQUENCY EMISSIONS, QUOTING BOTH THE FCC AND AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY'S STATED POSITIONS ON THE SUBJECT. SUBSEQUENTLY, AND AS CITY COUNCIL HAD BEEN WARNED BY VARIOUS PUBLIC COMMENTERS, THE AUG. 2021 RULING AGAINST THE FCC, IN THE SECOND HIGHEST COURT IN THE U.S., WOULD PROVE HIM, AND ANYONE ELSE WHO TAKES THE FCC'S RF GUIDELINES SERIOUSLY (AT THIS POINT IN TIME) PATENTLY WRONG IN HIS STATED OPINION!!! AND THIS IS WHY, DEAR READER, WE DECIDED TO HAVE A "REAL" STUDY SESSION, EVEN THIS LONG AFTER THE INITIAL EVENT!! THE ABOVE REPLAY OF THE VIRTUAL SMART METER TOWN HALL IS THE "STUDY SESSION YOU WISHED YOU'D HAD, BUT DIDN'T" NOW BEING BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE PEOPLE! ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A VOLUNTEER PROJECT - OF THE PEOPLE - BY THE PEOPLE - FOR THE PEOPLE
FURTHER INFO, TO DONATE, VOLUNTEER, EDUCATE, CANVAS, CONTRIBUTE TO FUNDRAISING AND/OR TO GET ON A SMART METER EMAIL LIST ON THE PROBLEMS WITH EMF (AND SMART METERS), AND TO JOIN OTHERS IN GETTING THE WORD OUT, AND TO HAVE YOUR VOICE HEARD:
CONTACT DOE KELLY: doekelly@juno.com LONGMONT RESIDENT (AND JUST ONE OF "TOO MANY CANARIES IN THE COAL MINE!!!")