CEP Files Blistering Comment in California Smart Meter Opt-out Proceedings

Dear Friends of Center for Electrosmog Prevention (CEP),

We are working on your behalf!

As promised, Center for Electrosmog Prevention, an Intervenor in the current California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) opt-out proceeding, Monday, Nov.  10, 2014 filed a formal response to what many consider noxious CPUC proposed decisions regarding the smart meter opt-out, which blatantly ignore health and safety.  Our attorney worked long and hard on this filing, over the past four days.

Once this proceeding is closed – likely in December, 2014, the CPUC decisions will be followed. The current opt-outs could become more expensive or be taken away, at any time in the future, the way the interim CPUC plan was written. We are very concerned that what doctors say are hazardous smart meters could be forced on us all, once again. We are concerned about those who cannot afford the opt-out fees, about those subjected to large banks of meters, about commercial meters that don’t even qualify now for an opt-out – about smart meters harming the public with little recourse.

CEP presented a strongly worded critique, pointing out that health and safety, denied as a factor by Administrative Law Judge Yip-Kikugawa and Head Commissioner Michael Peevey (see below), is required to be considered by state law and the CPUC’s own new safety policy; that opt-out fees should be lowered or eliminated; and that Community Opt-outs must be allowed.

Here is the CEP Comment on the Proposed Decisions (and above, at top of this article)

• ALJ Amy Yip-Kikugawa’s Proposed Decision
• Michael Peevey’s Alternate Proposed Decision

All CEP Opt-outs filings and related documents are found on https://www.scribd.com/PreventElectroSmog/collections and on our Legal Filings page on this website.

CLICK HERE FOR THIS PROCEEDING’S CPUC PAGE, TO VIEW ALL OTHER POSTED DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING FILINGS BY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND THE UTILITIES.  Please note that there may be a delay in posting all filings.

The deadline for formal Parties to file Comments is November 18, 2014, with Parties’ Reply Comments due by Nov. 24th. Public comments may be sent until the vote of the Commissioners, which could be as early as Dec. 4 or Dec. 18th, during one of the CPUC’s public meetings in San Francisco. A final decision will then be issued by the CPUC by Dec. 18, 2014.

What can you do?

If you live in California:

Send your own public comments by email to Commissioner Michael Peevey at ml12@cpuc.ca.gov 

[or manisha.lakhanpal@cpuc.ca.gov (if that address bounces back)] and  Administrative Law Judge Amy Yip-Kikugawa at ayk@cpuc.ca.gov.

Attend CPUC meetings in San Francisco to express your opinion, if you are able to do so! A list of CPUC meetings is here. The CPUC is located at 505 Van Ness Ave San Francisco CA. (Thanks to Sandi Maurer of the EMF Safety Network for this information.)

If you live outside of California:

Share this article and network with smart meter concerned groups in your state, to obtain an opt-out where you live, and ultimately, a ban on smart meters. Smart Meter Activism Sites – CA and USA. Help support our efforts, as what happens in California will often sweep the nation.

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For more information and articles on these opt-out proposed decisions, please visit CEP’s Legal page, to view past filings on the California Utilities Smart Meter Opt-out and Smart Grid Proceedings at the CPUC, and visit EMF Safety Network at  http://emfsafetynetwork.org/

Articles:

Extortion by Smart Meter by Jim Heddle, of Ecological Options Network

CPUC: Give millions more to PG&E and continue smart meter extortion fees by Sandi Maurer, EMF Safety Network 

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