Hello All!

I wanted to update you all that written testimony for the new MA Smart Mater Opt Out Bill- S.2204 is due tomorrow at 5PM!  To make it quick and easy for those that wish to, to send in written testimony, Cecelia Doucette of MA for Safe Technology has drafted a letter that can easily be copied and pasted, along with subject heading and recipients. Below is her template for the current smart meter bill testimony. Be sure to sign your name to the end! Thank you again for all you hard work and continued efforts!

Written Testimony:
Due Wednesday, July 28 @ 5 p.m. Eastern

Submissions go to the offices of the House and Senate Chairs; if you're comfortable, please also include us so we can monitor submissions:

To: magdalena.garncarz@mahouse.gov; 
samuel.anderson@masenate.gov; 
MA4SafeTech@gmail.com
(please include your own legislators as well; click here for MA legislators)

Subject: TUE: S. 2204 Support; H. 3309 Support with Modification

Message: (One's personal story can have great impact on legislators. Please share yours or feel free to use/customize the following.)

Dear Esteemed Legislators,

Thank you for the inroads you are making toward safe, energy-efficient infrastructure in Massachusetts.

I fully support Senator Moore's S. 2204 to give rate-payers the choice of no-fee utility meters that do not emit radiofrequency radiation (RF).

As taught by doctors at the international EMF Medical Conference 2021, the electromagnetic fields (EMFs) of radiation pulsed by utility "smart meters" are one of the leading causes of rapidly increasing electromagnetic illnesses. Allowing an opt-out is an important solution to immediately give Massachusetts residents the right to be safe in their own homes from the pulsed radiation of smart and AMI meters.

We should not be exposing the public, the plants, or the pollinators to radiofrequency radiation. NH is the first legislature in the nation to do an independent investigation into the health and environmental impact of today's wireless technology. Their final commission report documents conflicts of interest between industry and our federal agencies, reveals the peer-reviewed solid science showing extensive harm, and recommends hard-wired technology.

Furthermore, if we are serious about climate change, Massachusetts must transition away from wireless technology which consumes 10x more energy than the safer, sustainable solution of running signal through high speed cable, upgraded copper lines, or high speed fiber-optics to and through the premises -- not through wireless smart meters on properties or small cells at the curb. 

A Greenpeace analyst examined wireless consumption, and noted if the wireless industry were a country, it would be the fifth or sixth largest consumer of energy in the world. 

Engineers can readily develop safe, sustainable, energy-efficient technology but it is up to our legislatures to require it.

You have that opportunity in Representative Golden's H. 3309. Instead of just requiring an opt-out from smart meters, which leaves the rest of the public and the planet vulnerable, insist that utility meters be made safe and sustainable through an analog meter option, which gives off no radiofrequency radiation.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Respectfully,

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Those who do not plan to testify but want to watch the public hearing may view the live stream under the Hearings & Events section of the legislative website. The video will be posted there afterwards.