Navopache Caught Lying
Channel: Warren Woodward
Date: 17/01/2014

This video proof was sent to the Arizona Corporation Commission via the following letter:

January 17, 2014

Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC)
Docket Control Center
1200 West Washington Street 
Phoenix, Arizona 85007

Re: Docket # E-00000C-11-0328

Commissioners;

          Another Arizona electric utility has been found lying.

          At their website, Navopache Electric Cooperative makes all the usual bogus, fraudulent claims about "smart" meters but this one is a standout: "... our meters only transmit for 1.5 seconds every 4 hours (a total of 9 seconds per day)."  [http://www.navopache.org/content/ami]

          That is a complete and total lie.

          Using a Gigahertz Solutions HF35C microwave analyzer, I found "smart" meters in the Navopache service area to be transmitting much, much more often than "1.5 seconds every 4 hours" as Navopache claims.

          You can see the proof on video by searching Youtube for my name and Navopache Caught Lying. In the video you will see an example of my findings. The Navopache "smart" meter is transmitting continuously.

          By the way, the HF35C microwave analyzer is directional. In other words, it has to be aimed at what you want to measure. So, in the video, I am not picking up other sources of microwave. Additionally, the HF35C makes specific sounds for specific sources of microwave. In other words, if I was picking up a cordless phone, router or cell tower I'd know it because I'd hear a different tone for each, different than the tone heard in the video.

          Over the last several years I have chronicled and brought to your attention the countless lies told by APS about almost every aspect of their "smart" meters. Now Navopache is caught lying also.

          If "smart" meters are so wonderful, why all the lying?

          If "smart" meter microwave radiation is no big deal, why are utilities nationwide -- now including Navopache -- lying about it? 

          Why are the monopoly utilities allowed to lie and deceive the public? Navopache has not only been lying at their website but Navopache has also robo-called ratepayers in the Navopache service area, inviting them to public meetings where Navopache continued their lying about "smart" meters.

          How can ratepayers be expected to make informed decisions if their utility is allowed to lie to them?

          If Navopache is lying intentionally, one must ask why. If Navopache is lying unintentionally then isn't the public being placed at risk by a monopoly utility so inept that they do not even understand the technology they are using? In either case, an immediate, thorough investigation by you is called for. In either case -- and at the very least -- shouldn't Navopache be required to tell the truth about their "smart" meter transmissions with the same vigor and zeal with which they lied about their "smart" meter transmissions?

          Why haven't you gotten a microwave analyzer and checked up on these false utility claims like I have been insisting you do for over two years? 

          Why am I doing the work and research you should be doing with your multimillion dollar budget and hired help? 

          When are you going to actually regulate instead of vegetate? 

          And by the way, having the Arizona Department of Health Services do a year-long "smart" meter health safety study while at the same time allowing continued installation "smart" meters is not regulating. It is negligent, backward and buck-passing. It's like saying 'we don't know if this water is OK to drink but keep drinking it anyway while we do a study.'

          By shirking your regulatory responsibilities, you commissioners have totally failed the public you are supposed to represent. And once again I am left wondering, are you corrupt, bought by the utilities, or just lazy and incompetent?

Sincerely,


Warren Woodward

Cc: Governor Jan Brewer, Attorney General Tom Horne