Persistant Resistance is Fertile – CA’s ‘Smart’ Meter Pushback Chronicles
Northern California – in the service area of energy giant Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) – is one of a growing number of epi-centers of ratepayer resistance to the wireless ‘smart’ meter deployment by electric, gas and water utilities in this country and around the world. Wireless so-called ‘smart’ meters are just one component of the international ‘smart grid’ project: a top-down, technocratic profit-making plan originating from the Davos-based World Economic Forum, and being promoted by the world’s largest consulting firm, Accenture – ‘a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.’ It should be noted that Accenture is a spin-off of the discredited, and now virtually defunct, accounting firm Arthur Anderson which helped the infamous Enron cook its books. Despite the utilities’ outrageous assertion that wireless ‘smart’ meters – with all their proven risks to safety, security, privacy, billing accuracy and human health – can be installed on people’s homes without their consent, ratepayer rebellion has been strong and is growing. This is an impressionistic montage of some of the people and actions which have so far contributed to the establishment of an ‘opt-out’ program in the PG&E service area. It should give viewers in other states and service areas empowering evidence that ‘Persistent Resistance is Fertile.’ It carries the story through January 2012. Since then, the movement is turning its …
