Locked
By Josh del Sol, producer & director,
Take Back Your Power & Jeromy Johnson of EMF Analysis
FAT CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG: Evidence has now been made
public of illegal actions and collusion between former California Public
Utilities Commission president Michael Peevey and utility PG&E, as criminal
investigations continue.
As part of a federal and state investigation
into what appears to be systemic corruption involving former senior executives
at PG&E and the California Public Utilities Commission, 65,000 emails have been publicly released, revealing collusion and
conspiracy.
Former commission president Michael
Peevey and former PG&E Vice President Brian Cherry
are wishing investigators would have been kept in the dark. The pair privately
discussed problems with so-called “smart” meters, violating their own rules of
procedure while admitting to health harm and overbilling problems
– which several thousand Californians had been warning about since
2010.
Details continue to surface, as press and
researchers continue to delve into the mountain of collusion.
It is perhaps justly ironic that we now see,
made public, the private email correspondence of those who have teamed up to
deploy technology which, according to a 2012 US Congressional Research report,
facilitates unprecedented in-home
surveillance.
Here are some highlights from their
correspondence:
1) Peevey knew – since 2010 –
that “smart” meters can cause physical harm.
And he believed PG&E should do something
about it, albeit “quietly”. However, instead of regulating the utility to ensure
public safety, he deferred his lawful duty to PG&E – the entity causing
the harm.
From a 2010 email:
“Peevey wanted PG&E to keep it quiet,”
writes Sandi Maurer, Director of the EMF Safety Network. “He didn’t want other customers, or the rest of the
world to know there’s a problem with smart meters causing customers
pain.”
2) Peevey said after a “smart” meter was installed on his vacation home, his bill more than doubled.
Sunday’s LA Times reported this one. “Obviously something is wrong,” Peevey wrote to Cherry
in 2011. “I would like an explanation.”
PG&E reacted immediately to perform a “deep
dive investigation” into the billing situation at the 3,118-square-foot Sea
Ranch home on the Northern California coast.
There have been tens of thousands of billing
complaints in California, revealing a widespread, systemic overbilling problem
which appears to be the case everywhere “smart” meters are installed.
3) Peevey and Cherry colluded to permanently delay hearings until the “smart” meter rollout was completed.
As noted in EMF Safety Network’s January 22
appeal for rehearing, an email from Cherry to Tom Bottorff – a senior VP who
left in disgrace but received $1.1M in severance pay – outlines the CPUC
conspiracy to delay “smart” meter hearings until all “smart” meters had already
been installed:
“Mike [Peevey, the
CPUC president] grumbled about the CCSF PFM [City and County of San Francisco
Petition for Modification] and the folks in Sebastopool [sic] who want to delay
SmartMeter implementation. He implied that this wasn’t going to happen and that
by the time the Commission got around to acting on it, we would have installed
all of our meters.”
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In fact, not all of the “smart” meters have been
installed in California – as thousands of customers have refused and 57 local governments don’t want
them – and there are now obvious issues
with those that were installed.
Thanks to multi-year efforts of advocate groups
like EMF Safety Network and StopSmartMeters!, the cat is now out of the bag as
to how dangerous and corrupt the grand plans of people like Michael Peevey have
been. The CPUC and PG&E knew that people were being harmed and they colluded
to silence the truth.
The story continues to unfold
We encourage you to stay tuned as more
revelations come out by the day. With the judge-shopping scandal,
ex-Commissioner Peevey’s home computers, hard drives and smart
phones were seized in January by
investigators. This has already led to more evidence of
collusion in the multi-billion dollar
bailout of the San Onofre nuclear power plant in 2013.
As utility and political leaders from around the
country toasted Michael Peevey last
night on a “job well done”, truth
advocates will continue to sift through emails. We can only guess what will be
revealed in the coming months. However, it appears that it won’t be a comfortable
retirement for those who broke their own
rules and brushed aside safety in order to push through the multi-billion dollar
boondoggle that is the wireless “smart” grid.