Editor’s Note: The following is an open letter to BC Hydro:
To BC Hydro:
In response to your letter regarding “options” and “fees”, I repeat I will not accept a smart meter or an opt-out fee. Nor will I accept being intimidated by you and your staff.
BC Hydro is not entitled to impose an opt-out fee and, by doing so, violates my rights. You are presenting fees in a manner which is misleading – causing people to believe that your actions are authorized when they are not.
Your letter is coercive and the fees you propose are exorbitant and extortionate in the extreme, advanced with the intent of forcing people to abandon their rights of privacy and autonomy in their own homes, forcing them to abandon their right to be free from interference and free from incessant microwave exposure if they so choose. This is extortion.
My answer is NO. I will not accept a smart meter; nor will I be intimidated by the threat of paying a fee, the imposition of which is unlawful.
Suzanne Gravelle
Clearwater, B.C.
