After years of saying there were no 2-way smart meters planned for NY, ConEd has pulled a bait and switch and filed a rate case to rollout this affront to human decency.
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/02/8562149/con-ed-spending-15-billion-smart-meter-program
http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2015/February/05/smartmeters_PSC-05Feb15.html
Someone needs to tell the Department of Public Service and Public Service Commission and tell them quickly that the then-head of the California Public Utilities Commission admitted that smart meters cause people pain:
ftp://ftp2.cpuc.ca.gov/PG&E20150130ResponseToA1312012Ruling/2010/09/SB_GT&S_0000529.pdf
It isn’t legal to roll out something into the commons that is known to injure people; worse people who have developed electro-sensitivity from these public exposures (to say nothing of those who will develop it from the exponentially increased exposures) cannot access buildings where a smart meter is on the premises.
Whereas they could get Wi-Fi and cordless phones turned off to comply with the New York City Human Rights Law and the Americans with Disabilities Act, etc., the business owner and/or building manager won’t be able to control the smart meter. A society where swaths of the population cannot go inside because of the rollout of devices that are inherently discriminatory is not one that abides by the rule of law.
They already have some smart meters on apartment buildings in NYC- the meters are literally on the floors outside the units- not even necessarily confined in the basements.
You throw in the high powered (300-500 ft range) 5 Ghz Wi-Fi ( a frequency that is reported by electrosensitive people as “nasty, nasty stuff” that Comcast has been rolling out in NYC the last few months, wireless FIOS transmitters in hallways for internet and tv, and cell transmitters concealed in elevator shafts and you have the whole indoor building environment in NYC being turned into a nuisance.
Add in Wi-Fi hotspots planned for the street and Distributed Antenna Systems (effectively cell towers) being placed on lampposts outside people’s homes in residential areas….and you have Sodom and Gomorrah meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in a Twilight Zone Episode.
Somewhere, Kafka, Heller and Orwell are laughing…bitterly.