LETTERS

Just say NO to RI Energy’s AMF Plan

Posted 3/22/23

To the Editor,

A lot has changed since 1996, especially in the world of technology.

How many adults had cell phones in 1996 and used the internet daily? Think how wireless use has increased …

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LETTERS

Just say NO to RI Energy’s AMF Plan

Posted

To the Editor,


A lot has changed since 1996, especially in the world of technology.

How many adults had cell phones in 1996 and used the internet daily? Think how wireless use has increased exponentially in our society since then, including use by young children and adolescents. One crucial thing has not changed—the 1996 FCC guidelines for exposure to pulsed/modulated, radiofrequency/microwave radiation emitted from cell towers, “small cell” antennas on utility poles, cell phones, routers, laptops, and Smart Meters.

 In August, 2021 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in the historic case EHT et al. v. the FCC that the 2019 decision by the FCC to retain its 1996 safety limits for human exposure to wireless radiation was “arbitrary and capricious.” The court held that the FCC failed to respond to “record evidence [11,000 pages] that exposure to RF radiation at levels below the Commission’s current [thermal] limits may cause negative health effects unrelated to cancer.”

Further, the court found the FCC failed to address these issues:

  • impacts of long term wireless exposure
  • impacts to children,
  • the testimony of people injured by wireless radiation,
  • impacts to wildlife and the environment
  • impacts to the developing brain and reproduction.

 So, when RI Energy tells the RI PUC and consumers in their “Advanced Metering Functionality Business Case and Attachments” document dated November 18, 2022 on page 125:

 “There is no reliable scientific basis for a mechanism by which RF fields can cause effects in the human body other than through heating, i.e., a thermal effect. The RF fields from the AMF meter being used by Rhode Island Energy are far too low to cause a heating/thermal effect. The RF field levels from the AMF meters being used by Rhode Island Energy more than comply with the applicable FCC RF exposure limit for the radio in the AMF meters.”

They are obviously ignoring the findings of this court.

 The RI PUC will have an Open Hearing with public comment on April 4, 2023 at 6 p.m. at the PUC office on Jefferson Blvd. in Warwick.

Please inform yourselves, watch the Hearing, and testify. Rhode Islanders do not need or want RI Energy’s AMF plan. We want to keep our safe, accurate, reliable, non-hackable analog meters, which do not use excess electricity to operate and do not contribute to atmospheric CO2, as Smart Meters do.


Sheila Resseger, M.A.

Cranston

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