# Source note - Smart-meter EMF Instagram Reel

Original Instagram URL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DamkicUoJo8/?igsi=b2owbDAwd3B3ZGF5
Captured: 2026-08-20

Visible account: `wolffeshane` / Shane Wolffe, verified.

Recovered caption says EMF is part of a broader poisoning claim, that smart-meter limits are troubling, and that smart devices will bombard people with more EMF. It concludes: "It's poisoning on a cellular level."

Recovered metadata: title `Video by wolffeshane`, uploader `Shane Wolffe`, channel `wolffeshane`, like count `110994`, comment count `1465` at capture.

## What the video says

The auto transcript says the clip is from 2017 and presents a chart titled roughly "Microwave Power Density: Health effects vs. safety standards." It cites alleged biological effects at very low power densities, gives a smart-meter example around 7.93 microW/cm2, says apartment banks of meters can be much higher, and says Canada/US safety limits are 600-1000 microW/cm2 - "tens of thousands" of times higher than levels said to damage health.

## Official/regulatory sources preserved

- Health Canada Safety Code 6 browser-visible context: smart meters are within the RF-EMF technologies covered; Safety Code 6 is based on ongoing review of peer-reviewed studies and a weight-of-evidence approach; Health Canada says limits protect against established adverse health effects with large safety margins and continuous 24/7 exposure coverage.
- ISED RF energy and safety capture: regulatory/spectrum safety context preserved by text proxy.
- WHO EMF Q&A capture: WHO distinguishes biological effects from health hazards and says no adverse health effects from low-level, long-term RF/power-frequency exposure have been confirmed, while research continues.
- FDA cell-phone RF safety capture: included as a non-Canadian comparison for RF health-evidence framing.

## Limits and records wanted

- PBC did not locate a current BC Hydro smart-meter RF page during this pass; an older/redirected URL returned a 404.
- The chart appears to cite Healthy Homes Consulting Inc., BC, but the original chart source page was not independently recovered in this pass.
- PBC did not verify each cited low-level biological-effects study individually. The article treats the chart as a claim stack and compares it to the regulatory/weight-of-evidence position.
- This is not personal medical advice and does not tell readers to accept or reject medical care, utility equipment, or RF-mitigation products.