The Santa Cruz Sentinel (California) broke the news that the head of PG&E’s SmartMeter program posed as a concerned citizen on anti-SmartMeter Websites, even volunteering to “help site operators with their cause”:
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/nationalbreaking/ci_16558858
SFGate and the NY Times followed up on the story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/science/earth/10meter.html?_r=2
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/09/MNG61G940B.DTL
and the exec in question has since “been disciplined”:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/09/BAT01G9O9U.DTL
“indefinite paid suspension” – wish I could get that!!!