“This is not just Bristol anymore. This is all across the state. This is from Nottingham to Sugar Hill,” said Joan Wirth, one of several neighbors on Hundred Acre Woods Road in Bristol who went to court last spring in an unsuccessful bid to establish their right to keep New Hampshire Electric Cooperative from installing the devices.
The judge said the Federal Communications Commission has, since 1985, had “exclusive authority to set health standards on the effects of RFR emissions.” He said in his nine-page decision a case by the neighbors at the state level would likely fail on its merits.
An attorney for the co-op said in court last spring that the “smart meter” installations throughout its 80,000-member New Hampshire grid were at the center of a $35 million NHEC equipment and services upgrade which included funding from a U.S. Department of Energy grant of nearly $16 million. The installations are scheduled for completion next spring.
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