By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services | Arizona Business Gazette
Elizabeth Kelley isn’t claiming those smart meters reading your electric usage are going to kill you.
But the Tucson head of the Electromagnetic Safety Alliance said the radiation coming off what essentially is a radio transmitter attached to your house is just being added to all the other radio waves hitting your body. And she said there is evidence that some people are affected by all that.
The question is more than academic for Arizonans, as the state Corporation Commission considers what rules to impose on the use of “smart meters” by Arizona Public Service Co., Tucson Electric Power and other investor-owned and cooperative utilities in the state.
Commission member Susan Bitter Smith said it’s highly unlikely the panel will bar the meters, already in widespread use. She said it’s not for the commission to weigh all of the conflicting claims about the effects of the radio waves coming off the meters.
