APS Caught Lying
Channel: Warren Woodward
Date: 30/01/2014

APS is lying about the intensity of their "smart" meter transmissions.

In their "Myth vs Fact" sheet (here: http://apsmeters.com/pdfs/Automated-Meters-Radio-Frequency%282%29.pdf ), APS claims their "smart" meters transmit microwaves at a strength of .0009 milliwatts per centimeter squared at 10 feet away. In my video you will see APS meters transmitting at .00389 milliwatts per centimeter squared. My equipment measures in microwatts per meter squared. The 38,900 microwatts per meter squared that I recorded in the video converts to .00389 milliwatts  per centimeter squared. I suspect that APS uses milliwatts  per centimeter squared because the numbers then seem much smaller and therefore give the impression of being less threatening. In any case, APS is lying -- and by 432%. I proved it.

In the video, note also the comparison with cell towers. The APS "smart" meters are 20 times the intensity of being about 30 yards away from some major cell towers.

The same questions I posed in my recent letter to the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) in which I exposed Navopache Electric lying about their "smart" meter transmissions apply in this instance as well. Most importantly, "If APS is lying intentionally, one must ask why. If APS 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?" [letter here: http://images.edocket.azcc.gov/docketpdf/0000150913.pdf]

Over the last two and a half years I have caught APS lying about almost all other aspects of their "smart" meters and the ACC has done nothing. For example, the lies told in APS's extortion fee request for those ratepayers who refuse a 'smart" meter are almost too numerous to count. In that request APS is so completely dishonest they even sliced and diced a quote from a 2007 ACC decision to make the quote suit their purpose. [letter here: http://images.edocket.azcc.gov/docketpdf/0000144218.pdf]

One can only wonder if APS is given a free pass to lie and deceive the public because of the money APS funneled (and lied about) to the election campaigns of ACC commissioners Bob Burns, Susan Smith and Bob Stump. [http://www.azcentral.com/business/consumer/articles/20131109arizona-utilities-cash-went-acc-campaigns.html]
 
The Arizona Republic also caught APS lying about the funding of APS's solar net metering negative advertising campaign. [http://www.azcentral.com/business/consumer/articles/20131030regulator-calls-out-solar-campaigns.html]. The ACC's response was to reward the liars with a new fee from solar customers!

Commissioner Bob Burns asked the players involved in the solar net metering issue, including APS, for information about their advertising spending amounts. But no one he asked was under oath. Imagine -- he must have expected serial liars to suddenly volunteer the truth. In my opinion, Burns' "investigation" was strictly for show.

And just like at previous ACC "smart" meter meetings, no one was under oath at the recent solar net metering meeting. Without formal hearings in which companies are under oath, companies can -- and have -- lied with impunity.

The ACC's lackadaisical and negligent approach to regulating is such an established pattern -- especially when APS is involved -- that I no longer see it as inadvertent. The ACC's indifference to the repeated lying of utilities has become routine. I now see the ACC as complicit in those lies, and as willing accomplices in fraud.