Keeping New Mexico Smart Meter Free

The Cellphone Task Force is a nonprofit membership organisation founded in 1996 ‘in response to the health and environmental threats posed by the launch of the wireless revolution in the United States’. It provides ‘a global clearinghouse for information about wireless technology’s injurious effects, and a national support network for people injured or disabled by electromagnetic fields’ – and sends out regular newsletters covering items of interest.

A recent such newsletter celebrated the fact that, after two years of proceedings back in 2017 the majority of major cities in New Mexico had refused applications from the PNM (Public Service Company of New Mexico) for the installation of smart meters. (New Mexico is one of only two states in US – Connecticut is the other one – where an investor-owned electric utilities have not deployed smart meters.)

But now Public Service Company of New Mexico are back with a new application to install meters as part of a 5G system. However, under new legislation in New Mexico the criteria for approval includes a requirement that the application be ‘reasonable’ and that the smart meters must ‘provide customer protection’. The Cellular Task Force make the point that ‘meters that damage customers’ health and the environment are neither reasonable nor protective’.

‘Smart meters consume energy. Smart meters emit radiation and cause all the wiring in your home to emit radiation. Smart meters cause fires and explosions. Smart meters are hackable. Smart meters invade your privacy. Smart meters are inaccurate and raise your electric bills.’

They are therefore asking the 300,000 people who support their organisation worldwide – and anyone else who supports their stance – to help them defeat this new attempt to impose smart meters on the people of New Mexico.

If you are up for doing so please email the Mexico Public Regulation Commission telling them either of your experience with an installed smart meter:

• Tell them how it has affected your health.
• Tell them how it has affected the animal, bird, and insect life on your property and in your community.
• Tell them how it has affected your utility bills.
• And if your smart meter caused a fire, of course include that.

Or, if you have not had one installed, how and why you refused to do so.