The embattled electric utility vowed to stop issuing the notices temporarily while insisting that the wording didn’t violate state rules.
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Customers sue CMP over winter disconnect notices, saying they were deceived
The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, alleges that ‘deceptive and misleading’ CMP notices harmed customers.
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CMP to meet with Woolwich-area residents over flashing tower light complaints
The lights met immediate criticism from neighbors after they were installed on CMP’s new transmission towers over the summer.
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Maine Voices: Amid corner-cutting on CMP corridor plan, citizens’ hands are tied
Maine needs more authority to conduct comprehensive environmental studies of significant and/or controversial projects.
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Bill Nemitz: Another crisis, another empty promise from CMP
Recent disconnect notices that contradict state law are but the latest example of a utility that’s in the dark.
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Maine’s public advocate decries CMP disconnect notices as ‘scare tactic’
Central Maine Power says it is allowed to send the notices to customers with past-due bills, even though it can’t shut off their power in the winter without permission from the Public Utilities Commission.
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CMP-funded campaign spends $2.2 million to support transmission corridor
Central Maine Power’s political action committee spent the money this fall on advertising, political consultants, polling and opposition research to promote the $1 billion project, according to a campaign finance report.
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Maine Voices: Let voters decide on the future of CMP, Emera Maine
A referendum is a way to act on a proposal to create a public utility while reducing the ability of investor-owned ones to kill it.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
CMP customers stunned by PUC staff’s findings
A report concluding that the electric utility’s systems were not at fault for extremely high bills has left many of them reeling.
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CMP wins key approval for route of proposed $1 billion transmission line
The state’s Land Use Planning Commission voted Wednesday to certify the 145-mile corridor proposed by Central Maine Power.