Archive for March 2015

Smart Energy GB Communications Director Lies to Public Live on BBC One Breakfast

London, Mar. 31, 2015  — Stop Smart Meters! UK At 09:47 on March 7, 2015, the Communications Director for Smart Energy GB — the government body tasked with “ensuring customers understand smart meters” — appeared on the BBC One Breakfast show and told viewers that every home in the […]

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Scandal of the £11bn smart meter rollout plan – Sunday Times

The Sunday Times ~ Ruth Emery Published: 29 March 2015 The government aims to have one in every home by 2020 [Ed. – ‘smart’ meters are voluntary] — but experts warn it risks ‘disaster’ WHEN Malcolm Wilson had a smart meter fitted in his small architecture practice, […]

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Smart Meters a government IT disaster waiting to happen – read the damning IoD report

27 March 2015 IoD calls for Smart Meters scheme to be ‘halted, altered or scrapped’ to avoid ‘unjustified, over-engineered and expensive mistake’ The Government’s rollout of Smart Meters, digital energy meters designed to provide real-time usage statistics, should be “halted, altered or scrapped” to avoid a potentially […]

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Smart meter scheme could be IT disaster, says IoD – BBC News

The government’s smart meter scheme could be an “IT disaster”, the Institute of Directors (IoD) has said. The risks involved with “the largest UK government-run IT project in history” were “staggering”, a report said. It recommended that the government drastically scale back the programme or abandon it […]

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UK Smart Meter Rollout Delays Are Costly – DECC Report

Technical, logistical and public communication issues have resulted in costly delays in the UK’s smart meter rollout. In December last year, we published a guest article written by Nick Hunn who expressed his aggravation at the constant delays surrounding the UK smart meter rollout. [Engerati-UK Smart Meters […]

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“Media Blackout on Smart Meter Dangers” Wins Project Censored Award

Prof. James Tracy’s story, “Health Impact of RF Radiation: Media Blackout on Smart Meter Dangers,” published at Memory Hole Blog and by Professor Michel Chossudovsky, editor of Global Research, in January 2014, was nominated by student researchers and faculty evaluators working with Project Censored at San Francisco […]

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Lloyd’s of London EXCLUDES liability coverage for harm from RF-EMFs/wireless radiation

via Smart Meter Harm and Citizens For Safe Technology Credit to Sharon Noble, Director, Coalition to Stop Smart Meters in British Columbia, for bringing this information to the public’s attention.  Listen to an interview with Sharon here. Lloyd’s of London excludes any liability coverage for claims; “Directly […]

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Smart meters may not be delivered to UK homes on time, MPs warn

[From the Guardian (no mention of health or cyber risks, both of which add substantial and unaccounted for costs for the programme)] Delays to government’s flagship energy scheme to supply smart meters to 30m UK households and small businesses by 2020, enabling them to cut bills, could […]

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