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Longmont residents press city to allow analog meters after months-long displacement over electromagnetic-sensitivity claims
Summary
Dozens of residents urged Longmont officials to make accommodations for people reporting electromagnetic hypersensitivity and to allow non-digital electromechanical meters; speakers described personal health impacts and asked the city to change its opt-out policy and rules for Longmont Power & Communications.
At the April 1 Longmont City Council meeting, more than a dozen residents urged the city to allow permanent alternatives to digital smart meters and to remove or alter opt-out fees after several people said they were unable to live in their homes because of electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS).
Why it matters: Multiple speakers described disabling health problems they attributed to radiofrequency emissions from smart meters and mesh networks. The City’s current Longmont Power & Communications (LPC) smart-meter…
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