Pubdate: Wed, 04 Jan 2012
Source: Grand Forks Gazette (CN BC)
Copyright: 2012 Mike Taylor
Contact:  http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/grandforksgazette/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/525
Author: Mike Taylor

SMART METERS WILL ELIMINATE GROW-OPS

Editor:

More than $100 million worth of electricity is stolen from BC Hydro 
every year, with much of it powering marijuana grow-ops. As an honest 
BC Hydro customer, it makes me unhappy to know that people are 
stealing electricity.

That's why I'm glad BC Hydro is finally installing smart meters and 
putting an end to preventable electricity theft. Smart meters will 
let BC Hydro zero in on electricity theft quickly and accurately and 
shut down the perpetrators.

The old mechanical meters can't do that. I doubt people are still 
using the same appliances, that were around in the 1940s, so why 
would anyone want to use metering technology from 60 years ago?

Mike Taylor, Port Moody, B.C.
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