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There are at workers; cancer clusters among people living near cell

least a dozen • Thousands of crossband repeater stations, towers or in buildings directly under them. 9
The “smart” grid network inflicts an incal-

published each broadcasting radiation in the 900 culable increase in hazardous EMR at a time
studies megahertz range; when the International Agency for Research on
reporting that • Thousands of broadband access points emit- Cancer (IARC) has designated all RF/microwave
electromagnetic frequencies as a Group 2B car-
populations ting the license-exempt Wi-Fi frequency cinogen (possibly cancer-causing). 10
bands of 2.45, 3.65, and 5.8 gigahertz;
living within
500 meters • Thousands of point-to-point microwave CANARY SICKNESS AND
links providing backhaul for the system;
MEDIA FALLOUT
of cellular A group of concerned medical doctors in
microwave • Thousands of integrated service routers Eugene, Oregon, reports: “PG&E’s approach
handling security and network management
antennas suffer through wireless signals. 8 to the AMI rollout didn’t involve a lot of public
education. They just switched out the meters.
high rates of And some people found that they were having
The new smart grid signal infrastructure
adverse health is a duplication of the massive cellular commu- trouble sleeping, or experiencing headaches,
effects. nications build-out which, over the last thirty ringing in the ears, vertigo or other symptoms
that hadn’t been bothering them before. Soon
years, has spawned over three hundred thousand the Internet was awash with anecdotal reports
microwave towers and rooftop antenna arrays and commentary about these adverse effects. . .
from coast to coast. There are at least a dozen Finally PG&E was served with a court order to
published epidemiological studies reporting that provide clearer documentation of what the meters
populations living within five hundred meters of were actually doing. In response to that court
cellular microwave antennas suffer high rates order, PG&E provided documentation from the
of adverse health effects including headaches, manufacturer of the meters that the average meter
skin rashes, vision/hearing problems, dizziness, in the mesh network transmitted data signals to
sleep disturbances, hormonal abnormalities and the utility six times a day, network management
chronic fatigue. There are also many reports of signals fifteen times a day, timing signals three

Left: An EMR-emitting device attached to a telephone pole.

Above: A cell tower.

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