Login / RegisterSkeptic doubts B.C. Hydro's math on smart meter rejections
The number of British Columbians not complying with B.C. Hydro's mandatory shift to digital smart meters is far higher than the 9,779 claimed by the utility, one critic says.
"I think that they are manipulated in favour of B.C. Hydro, and a lot of people are not corresponding with B.C. Hydro," Una St. Clair, founder of B.C. Citizens for Safe Technology, told the Straight by phone. "They're not telling them; they're just putting up the signs and locking up their meters. That's what we're finding."
On January 31, B.C. Hydro's manager of freedom of information, Scott Macdonald, responded to two separate requests filed by the Straight regarding noncompliance with the mandated smart meters. According to the information Macdonald provided, the utility is mandated to install 1.94 million smart meters in homes and commercial properties provincewide by the end of the year. As of December 14, 2011, 483,506 had been installed.
On the issue of noncompliance, B.C. Hydro received 9,779 "installation-hold requests" between July of last year and December 14, 2011, according to the same information. Of that number, 1,034 installations were resumed "after conversation with customer", leaving 8,745 remaining official cases of noncompliance.
Also, the information released noted that B.C. has had 180 requests to remove an installed meter in that same time period. The utility did not state what form of communication the requests took in each case.
B.C. energy and mines minister Rich Coleman would not grant the Straight an interview.
St. Clair claimed that the correspondence she has received amounts to "twice the number that they [B.C. Hydro] have", at around 20,000.
"It's definitely growing; that's all I can tell you from my end of things," St. Clair said. "This definitely isn't going away."
So far, the B.C. Liberal government has not directed B.C. Hydro to allow an opt-out program for those not wanting smart meters.
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eg: If you touch 3 minutes on you microwave but only use 1 minute, you will be charged for the 3 minutes you ordered.
If you turn on your clothes Dryer for a full cycle, and then shut it off part way through, you will still be charged the full cycle.
Thats what SMART METERS do, just like a parking meter, you don't get your money back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is why the Smart Meters were wanted by the Province, so as to increase revenue.
The last time I checked, this is not a Communist country.
There was a movement for the HST Removal and it got done. Why can't anyone like Vandersalm do it for this Smart Meter.
Smart for whom? Stupid for the sheeps and smart for the Government and the Smart Meter suppliers.
Take note, other countries have rejected them. Are we that smart?
Pretty soon, we will be cooking, vacuuming and doing laundry at midnight.
Think and act people!!!
these meters installed.through intimidation and threats. The spine less ones, are the "Liberals and the Government," who have forgotten how to govern. They have also forgotten who pays their wages. We the taxpayer. If every one stopped paying taxes, mortgages etc., where would they be today you think? "THEY ARE OUR SERVANTS DO NOT FORGET"!
does not govern, but the Corporations do. Just follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Do not vote "Liberal"