It’s a shame that FortisBC has not even blinked at the findings of the government of Saskatchewan that smart meters are causing fires.
Saskatchewan has since recalled all the province’s smart meters after multiple fires, and the city of Medicine Hat, AB, has placed a moratorium on any future smart meters.
The spin doctors working for BC Hydro and other utilities are explaining this away as being due to a particular meter manufacturer; however, smart meter fires have been reported all over the world and with virtually no difference in the manufacturers.
BC Hydro has done a good job of covering up fires being caused by their meters since they have been installed over the last few years. Just recently, a responding firefighter told CHEK news in Langford, B.C. (Sooke Lake) that the hydro meter was on fire when they responded to a house fire call. BC Hydro has since denied the meter was the cause.
Hardly surprising.
With FortisBC about to install smart meters in Kelowna, can we expect the same spin if and when the installations result in house fires? FortisBC should do like Medicine Hat and institute a moratorium.
The key to this lies within your household insurance policy, there is a clause about identified fire risks such as fireplaces etc installed in your home even the brands that are suspect in Canada. If your insurance company can not guarantee they will pay for such damage caused by this device, then Fortis has no choice but to stop this. And they know that as well. Fortis cannot make us install something which compromises our home insurance policies as result, which leaves you out of compensation for being gullible enough to allow a known fire hazard, as said in public by both CBC and our own Bill Bennett in public. Check it out, call your insurance company. They won’t guarantee anything.
That’s the way out of this and a real reason for refusing to install one that Fortis can’t argue with. I encourage you all to ask for letters from your insurance companies and forward them to all concerned, the minister and Fortis.
George Venables
Cawston
