MAINE PUBLIC • August 12, 2020
Activists are calling on electric customers in New England to stop paying their utility bills on Sept. 1, in a strike that aims to put pressure on the regional energy system to address climate change. No Coal, No Gas campaign volunteer Jeff Gang says the goal is to have a thousand people signed up to strike ahead of time. “What we’re asking people to do is something where you’re withdrawing consent from a system that’s working in a really exploitative and oppressive way,” Gang says.