Northeast Blackout

[Dark Lord Neo]

Originally posted by Dark Jaguar
Are some of Canada's power lines coming from American power plants or something?

Yes, but the oposite is true as well
One way that they make energy cheaper is by allowing the free flow of energy across the borders, one of the reasons this failure was so massive was that when whatever happend the system attempted to compensate for the loss of power, and this didn't work. SOmthing like this could have happend at one of the plants in Ontario and potentially have the same results, or it could have happened in Detroit, Cleavland or any other city affected by this.