Sounding The Alarm

Our Rights, Metered - The Daily Caller

One would think that the privacy and health concerns would be enough to stop the meters in their tracks. Unfortunately, the utilities in Vermont have followed the playbook of other smart meter rollouts throughout the United States. They hold “public information sessions” but make little to no effort to publicize them. Then they turn around and point at these sessions as if they did their due diligence to alert the populace. What’s worse, even if one attends an information session, the utility’s employees never own up to the documented liabilities of this technology. All of this results in these companies continuing to erode the civil liberties and wellbeing of the very folks who keep them afloat, without so much as a speed bump in their way to slow them down.

At least one state has stepped up and blown the whistle on these new meters for what they are: a sham. Connecticut’s attorney general, George Jepsen, has come out against the use of smart meters in Connecticut. His cited reason for opposing smart meters is that they are likely going to “provide few benefits” for consumers and cost far too much to purchase and install. Regardless, this story is poised to play out again and again in states across the country.

We cannot afford to sit on the sidelines and let this boondoggle continue unabated.