CMP critics seek renewed ban on disconnection notices

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • January 5, 2021

Lawyers representing a group of CMP customers have filed a complaint requesting that a moratorium on residential shutoff notices be reinstated, and that all disconnections or threats of disconnection for electric, gas, phone and water utilities be suspended until after April 15. The action comes two months after the PUC relaxed an emergency ban on shutoff warnings that it issued at the start of the coronavirus pandemic last spring.