Picketers at NB Power’s Fredericton headquarters on Sept. 3 said the government is not doing enough to help the thousands of New Brunswickers struggling to pay their electricity bill.
The 2025 report on energy poverty from the Human Development Council found that more than 37,000 households in the province experience both low income and high energy burden, a rate nearly double the national average.
NB ACORN chair Nichola Taylor organized the picket because she saidthe government is not doing enough to help these people. “First of all, the announcement that the CEO is getting a huge pay rise while everybody else is paying huge rate increases … it just doesn’t make sense.”
Read the full story by CRED-NB core member Susan O’Donnell in the NB Media Co-op, HERE.