Smart Meters and Health

SAY NO

B.C.'s provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall said the meters emit the same kind of radiation as cell phones, microwaves and baby monitors.

Given that cell phones, wi-fi and smart meters all transmit information with radio frequency waves, some members of the public have also argued that these devices, as well as baby monitors, and FM radio, which also use radio frequency transmission, be curtailed or banned.

Dr. Perry Kendall, British Columbia’s provincial health officer, recognizes these concerns. Dr. Kendall and his colleagues across the country regularly review information and new science as it becomes available, and have established ongoing review mechanisms to ensure that new knowledge is assessed quickly. http://www.bccdc.ca/healthenv/Radiation/ElectromagRadiation/CelluarandPCSDevices/PerryKendallCellPhoneStatement.htm

Dr. Magda Havas

Associate Professor Environmental and Resource Studies Program Trent University, Peterborough
• Professional Web Site http://www.magdahavas.org/

Welcome to Dr. Havas's Academic Website.
This site provides a collection of Dr. Havas's publications, technical reports, open letters, testimony as an expert witness at hearings, and invited presentations on chemical and electromagnetic contaminants.

• General Web Site http://www.magdahavas.com/

My research deals with the health effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic energy at the extremely low frequency range associated with electricity (60 Hertz) and at the radio frequency range commonly associated with wireless telecommunication. I am particularly interested in monitoring exposure of the population in urban centres to radio frequency radiation and power-frequency fields. Since children are more sensitive than adults to the potentially harmful effects of EMFs I have been trying to encourage school boards to measure magnetic fields within their schools as part of their health and safety program. I also provide information to people who are concerned about antennas, power lines or transformers being built near their residence and am currently trying to help with a Private Member's Motion that will establish guidelines and standards that reflect recent scientific studies and will truly protect public health.
Articles at her website

1. WiFi “Laptops” affect male fertility
2. Wi-Fi in Schools is Safe. True or False?
3. Advice for Health Canada regarding Wi-Fi, cell phone antennas, and other forms of radio frequency emitting devices.
4. Multiple Sclerosis and Dirty Electricity
   

• Trent University http://www.trentu.ca/academic/ihs/mhavas.html

YouTube

1. Welcome to Planet Irth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtb8dTgB3LE
2. WiFi in schools and health effects of microwave radiation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-TJXRc5fzo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
3. Cell Phones & Cigarettes: What do they have in Common? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4uz2TUcwnI&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in (Central-Eastern) southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres (78 mi) northeast of Toronto. Peterborough is known as the gateway to the Kawarthas, "cottage country", a large recreational region of the province. The Kawartha lakes are a band of lakes in south-central Ontario, Canada that form the upper watershed of the Trent River. The lakes all lie upon the boundary between the Paleozoic limestone regions of the Golden Horseshoe, and the Precambrian granite Canadian Shield of northern and central Ontario.

"Kawartha" is an anglicization of the word "Ka-wa-tha" (from "Ka-wa-tae-gum-maug" or Gaa-waategamaag), a word coined in 1895 by aboriginal Martha Whetung of the Curve Lake First Nations. It was hoped that the word, which meant "land of reflections" in the Anishinaabe language, would provide a convenient and popular advertising label for the area. The word was subsequently changed by tourism promoters to Kawartha, with the meaning "bright waters and happy lands."