To: Sandy Jones, Commissioner, District 5, PRC New Mexico, Karen Montoya, Commissioner, District 1, PRC New Mexico, Lynda Lovejoy, Commissioner, District 4, PRC New Mexico, Valerie Espinoza, Commissioner, District 3, PRC New Mexico, and Patr...
Tell the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission that you don't want a "Smart" meter on your home !
Would you want to pay for a device to be installed on your house that will transmit your personal information, has the potential to catch on fire and impact your health?? Sound crazy? Well read on ….. .
Why is this important?
Background:
Public Service Company of New Mexico has asked the NM Public Regulation Commission (PRC) for permission to install electric "smart" (AMI) meters in the areas it serves. A "smart" or AMI meter is a digital, wireless, transmitting device attached to the exterior wall of your home. PNM has asked the PRC for permission to bill ratepayers for expenses related to their installation (about $130 million).
"Smart" meter installations in other municipalities have shown that they put everyone at risk of:
Large rate increases:
In the application, PNM is basing their calculation of customer savings on the faulty premise that these AMI ("smart") meters will last 20 years. In practice, these meters are failing much sooner than that sometimes needing to be replaced in as little as 5 to 7 years. Thus, the projected savings will inevitably disappear and costs will skyrocket, this, at customers’ expense.
Fires:
Because they caused fires, utilities in Pennsylvania, Texas, Florida, Saskachewan, New Zealand and many other places have had to remove smart meters. This has resulted in additional expense rate to payers.
Cyber security breeches:
Smart Meters, being a wireless device are an easily hackable access point into the Smart Grid. Former CIA Director James Woolsey said , "A so-called 'smart' grid that's as vulnerable as what we've got (to hacking) is not smart at all. It's a really really stupid grid." PNM's application does not address how to prevent or mitigate cyber attacks.
Invasion of your privacy:
Detailed data about your household's power usage could be sold. This sort of information is already being sold to third parties in other states. Additionally this information could be used by thieves to determine when you are away from home.
Health problems:
"Smart" or AMI meters transmit data using 24/7 pulsing of Radio Frequency radiation. These RFs radiate along home wiring, exposing anyone within the building to levels of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) deemed a Class 2B carcinogen by the world health organization which puts it in a category with with substances like DDT and Asbestos.
How does exposure to EMR affect pregnant women, children, people with implants, people whose bedroom walls hold a "smart" meter? Do we want to be guinea pigs? Or, do we apply caution and deny PNM's request?
In its application, PNM stated that if the PRC does not allow it to pass on the costs of AMI meters to ratepayers, then it will not install them. PNM also stated that the project could become "uneconomical if the number of customers opting out becomes very substantial." We therefore believe that this costly, dangerous program can be stopped--if enough of us let the PRC and PNM know where we stand about “smart" meters before the PRC makes a decision about PNM's proposal.
Please sign and then share this petition with everyone you know. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE ! The PRC is going to rule on this in the immediate future so ACT NOW !
Public Service Company of New Mexico has asked the NM Public Regulation Commission (PRC) for permission to install electric "smart" (AMI) meters in the areas it serves. A "smart" or AMI meter is a digital, wireless, transmitting device attached to the exterior wall of your home. PNM has asked the PRC for permission to bill ratepayers for expenses related to their installation (about $130 million).
"Smart" meter installations in other municipalities have shown that they put everyone at risk of:
Large rate increases:
In the application, PNM is basing their calculation of customer savings on the faulty premise that these AMI ("smart") meters will last 20 years. In practice, these meters are failing much sooner than that sometimes needing to be replaced in as little as 5 to 7 years. Thus, the projected savings will inevitably disappear and costs will skyrocket, this, at customers’ expense.
Fires:
Because they caused fires, utilities in Pennsylvania, Texas, Florida, Saskachewan, New Zealand and many other places have had to remove smart meters. This has resulted in additional expense rate to payers.
Cyber security breeches:
Smart Meters, being a wireless device are an easily hackable access point into the Smart Grid. Former CIA Director James Woolsey said , "A so-called 'smart' grid that's as vulnerable as what we've got (to hacking) is not smart at all. It's a really really stupid grid." PNM's application does not address how to prevent or mitigate cyber attacks.
Invasion of your privacy:
Detailed data about your household's power usage could be sold. This sort of information is already being sold to third parties in other states. Additionally this information could be used by thieves to determine when you are away from home.
Health problems:
"Smart" or AMI meters transmit data using 24/7 pulsing of Radio Frequency radiation. These RFs radiate along home wiring, exposing anyone within the building to levels of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) deemed a Class 2B carcinogen by the world health organization which puts it in a category with with substances like DDT and Asbestos.
How does exposure to EMR affect pregnant women, children, people with implants, people whose bedroom walls hold a "smart" meter? Do we want to be guinea pigs? Or, do we apply caution and deny PNM's request?
In its application, PNM stated that if the PRC does not allow it to pass on the costs of AMI meters to ratepayers, then it will not install them. PNM also stated that the project could become "uneconomical if the number of customers opting out becomes very substantial." We therefore believe that this costly, dangerous program can be stopped--if enough of us let the PRC and PNM know where we stand about “smart" meters before the PRC makes a decision about PNM's proposal.
Please sign and then share this petition with everyone you know. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE ! The PRC is going to rule on this in the immediate future so ACT NOW !