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Updated November 28, 2012

This page will be rewritten in a few months.

In the meantime, please go to my webpage about a brand new smart meter survey: Smart Meter Health Effects Survey

SMART METER HEALTH EFFECTS SURVEY: If you feel your health has been affected by smart meters, we request your immediate help in studying these effects. Follow the link below for more information and to participate in our 15 minute confidential survey on this subject.

If you submit your survey by December 20, we will be able to use your data in the precedent-setting Maine, USA investigation into the safety of smart meters. Later submissions may be useful in other legal and regulatory proceedings. We welcome responses from all over the world. This survey is sponsored by the Maine Coalition to Stop Smart Meters and www.conradbiologic.com


PERTINENT LINKS OF INTEREST:

Recognition of the Electromagnetic Sensitivity as a Disability Under the ADA:
http://prd34.blogspot.com/2012/09/recognition-of-electromagnetic.html

Group one step closer to smart meter class action lawsuit;
BC Human Rights Tribunal approved a complaint from Citizens for Safe Technology:
http://prd34.blogspot.com/2012/09/group-one-step-closer-to-smart-meter.html

EMF Safety Network Wireless Utility Meter Safety Impacts Survey
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Wireless-Utility-Meter-Safety-Impacts-Survey-Results-Final.pdf

To submit a smart meter complaint online:
http://smartmeterhelp.com/ 

A report on "Health Impacts of RF from Smart Meters" by Dr. Karl Maret, dated January 2011:
http://sagereports.com/smart-meter-rf/?p=368

For more info on smart meters see:
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/
http://stopsmartmeters.org
http://stopsmartmetersirvine.com
http://www.citizensforsafetechnology.org/
http://ahappyhabitat.com/smartmeters.html
For testimonials on smart meters see: http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?page_id=2292
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine has published a list of EMF symptoms and recommendations that relate to smart meters and WiFi and EMF's in general: http://aaemonline.org/AAEMEMFmedicalconditions.pdf

Concerning smart meter and privacy issues, be sure to read what the director of the CIA has to say about smart meters: http://mieuxprevenir.blogspot.com/2012/03/cia-head-we-will-spy-on-americans.html

EMF Refugee Areas:
The two relatively EMF free places in the US I know of are in Green Bank, West Virginia:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14887428
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8SelMsICrE
http://www.gb.nrao.edu/nrqz/nrqz.shtml
http://www.gb.nrao.edu/43m/
and possibly New Mexico (but reported to be not completely EMF free):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Array
http://www.vla.nrao.edu/
Italy:
http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/EHS-Refuge-in-Italy.pdf
France:
http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/EHS-refuge-in-france.pdf

Smart Meter Medical Stories:
Australia:
http://stopsmartmeters.com.au/2011/11/06/share-your-story/
http://stopsmartmeters.com.au/2012/03/30/open-letter-to-the-premier/
United States:
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?page_id=2292
http://www.smartmeterhealthalert.org/stories.html
http://emfsafetynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Wireless-Utility-Meter-Safety-Impacts-Survey-Results-Final.pdf
http://emfwise.com/ehs.php
http://smartmeterhelp.com/
Canada (Note that Dale in the comments sections speaks of 500 families in Ontario becoming sick once smart meters are installed on their homes):
http://stopsmartmetersirvine.com/2012/03/03/medusa-collector-smart-meter-ladera-heights-california-and-dead-bees-on-walkway-near-smart-meter-irvine-california/
http://www.stopsmartmetersbc.ca/html/?page_id=3146
United Kingdom:
http://stopsmartmeters.org.uk/category/health-effects/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31891
Sweden:
http://planetthrive.com/2011/07/smart-meters-in-sweden/
Austria (concern over rising incidence of EHS with implementation of smart meters):
http://www.magdahavas.com/austrian-medical-association-guidelines-to-diagnosing-and-treating-patients-with-electrohypersensitivity/

Two compilations of health effects related to non-thermal EMF exposure - each over 40 pages:
http://www.weepinitiative.org/LINKEDDOCS/scientific/20080117_bevington_emfs.pdf (Andrew Goldsworthy's calcium leakage ideas)
http://wifiinschools.org.uk/resources/Bees_Birds_Mankind.pdf
In the link directly above, see particularly pages 34-38 on oxidative free radical mechanisms.

Some EHS Links from around the world:

Israel:
http://ehsfighback.blogspot.com/2012/06/article-about-dafna-tachover-ehs.html
Spain:
http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/labor-court-spain/
Belgium (movement to recognize EHS):
http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/belgian-parliament-proposed-resolution-july2011.pdf
Sweden:
http://www.es-uk.info/info/sweden.asp
http://planetthrive.com/2011/07/smart-meters-in-sweden/
Canadian EHS Refugees:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/10/13/refugees-in-their-own-land/

http://citizensforsafetechnology.org/uploads/scribd/Genuis 2.pdf
This article: "EHS: Fact or Fiction" (they do not mention smart meters; it was published a year ago) is in some ways is a good article, but to make it appear "balanced" or to get it through peer review they hedge and distort in places, which can be misleading and changes the truth a bit. They could have done better by entitling it The Reality of EHS and following through more directly. I also take issue with the universality and accuracy of some of their theories of cause and cure.