{"id":17427,"date":"2014-09-07T02:31:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T09:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17427"},"modified":"2014-09-07T02:31:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T09:31:24","slug":"electricity-service-cut-for-anti-smart-meter-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/electricity-service-cut-for-anti-smart-meter-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity Service Cut for Anti- Smart Meter Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Josh Hart refused the controversial\u00a0Smart Meter for his\u00a0home (Californians currently can get rid of Smart Meters and get the old analog meters back, but you’ll have to pay a service fee plus approx. $10 \/mo,) Hart didn’t realize the sacrifices his family would endure\u00a0\u00a0and how long the battle would rage to defend personal\u00a0rights. Not wanting Smart Meters for numerous reasons, Hart believes the public should not be made to pay an opt out fee to remove these high-tech\u00a0reading devices\u00a0that emit potentially dangerous signals similar to\u00a0a cell phone.\u00a0He has refused to pay the opt-out fee\u00a0portion of his electric bill. As a result, Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative\u00a0Public Utility cut electricity service to his family’s apartment.<\/p>\n

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Hart describes his family’s experience as a hardship. “It\u2019s been (now six) months since Plumas Sierra Rural Electric \u201cCo-Operative\u201d cut the electricity off to our (all-electric) home though we have paid every penny of electricity that we have used, said Hart. “They say it\u2019s because we refused to pay the opt out fees they added to our bill. We say we never *opted in* and their disconnection is retribution for raising awareness in the community about the risks of their AMR smart meters.” \u00a0Here is the\u00a0\u00a0full story…<\/a>><\/p>\n

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When Josh Hart refused the controversial\u00a0Smart Meter for his\u00a0home (Californians currently can get rid of Smart Meters and get the old analog meters back, but you’ll have to pay a service fee plus approx. $10 \/mo,) Hart didn’t realize the sacrifices his family would endure\u00a0\u00a0and how long the battle would rage to defend personal\u00a0rights. Not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}