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	CNN.com - Canada and U.S. blame each other - Aug. 15, 2003
		Canada's defense minister, John McCallum, later backed off some of those theories, though remained firm that the source of the problem was in the U.S. section of the intricate power grid shared by the northeastern United States and Ontario.
		In the U.S., officials were looking at a power transmission problem from Canada as the most likely cause of the outage, said a spokeswoman for New York Gov. George Pataki.
		The premier's office later said a fire at the Niagara plant in New York caused the flout, while the defense minister said the fire was at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/08/15/power.blame.ap (521 words)

	The Morning Journal - News - 08/14/2004 - 2003 blackout dealt a $6 billion blow to economy in U.S., Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Aug. 14, 2003, flout, which cut power to an estimated 50 million people on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border, cost about $6 billion, the U.S. Department of Energy reports.
		Anderson estimated the total impact of the flout on U.S. workers, consumers and taxpayers at slightly higher than the federal government's figure, placing the loss at about $6.4 billion.
		At the Ford casting plant in Brook Park, Ohio, the flout caused molten metal to cool and solidify inside one of the plant's furnaces.
	www.morningjournal.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1699&dept_id=46377&newsid=12695693&PAG=461&rfi=9 (704 words)

	The 2003 Blackout - Reference and Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce.
		August 14, 2003 Blackout: NERC Actions to Prevent and Mitigate the Impacts of Future Cascading Blackouts
		Blackout 2003: Performance of the New England and Maritimes Power Systems During the August 14, 2003 Blackout
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /hepg/Blackout.htm (393 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / US, Canada probing blackout
		WASHINGTON -- US representatives headed by Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham met with their Canadian counterparts in Detroit yesterday, officially beginning work on a joint investigation to find the cause of the power outage that affected more than 50 million people in both countries last Thursday.
		Despite some cross-border finger-pointing between US and Canadian officials immediately after the outage, Abraham has taken pains to praise the cooperation of the two governments.
		Canada's minister of natural resources, Herb Dhaliwal, touched on the finger-pointing issue and noted the situation's complexity.
	boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/08/21/us_canada_probing_blackout (459 words)

	THE GREAT BLACKOUT OF 2003.com
		The great flout of 2003 shut down more than 100 power plants, including 22 nuclear reactors, in the United States and Canada and knocked out power to 50 million people over a 9,300-square-mile area stretching from New England to Michigan.
		Boston escaped the flout, and state officials and power suppliers said Massachusetts was spared the worst of the flout because the state's power grid operates independently from New York's.
		Blackouts were reported in Toronto, as well as Ottawa in the province's eastern region and in much of Ontario.
	richstevens.com /blackout/p2.htm (754 words)

	Massive power blackout hits millions in Canada and the US
		But officials in Canada and the US have been quick to point the finger at others.
		A spokesperson for New York Governor Pataki declared that the reason for the outage was “a possible transmission problem from Canada to the US”.
		The process was similar to the cascading shutdown that led to major flouts across the same region in 1965, when 30 million people in seven states and two Canadian provinces were left without power.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/aug2003/elec-a15.shtml (1499 words)

	CNN.com - Power returns to most areas hit by blackout - Aug. 15, 2003
		Canada was experiencing rolling flouts Friday night, but Ontario Hydro was working to re-establish power in the province.
		New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at least one person died as a result of the flout, and at least one firefighter was injured.
		In Canada, Ottawa Director of Emergency Services Tony Dimanti said a 15-year-old died from injuries suffered in a fire, and another person died after being hit by a car during an altercation.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/08/15/power.outage (1240 words)

	Blackout of 2003
		U.S. regulators said Wednesday that they planned to change a policy that aimed to encourage electric utilities to sell their high-voltage transmission systems, saying the original policy led to too few divestitures.
		Blackout 101 - see the presentations made to congressional staffers on Feb. 6 by PSERC researchers and other expert members of the Power Engineering Society.
		To the extent practical, it will be beneficial for the affected parties in Canada and the U.S. to come to a common understanding on certain basic questions concerning the ERO before the U.S. Congress enacts reliability legislation.
	www.pserc.wisc.edu /Resources.htm (8482 words)

	Blackout Disrupts 7 US, Canada Refineries
		Gasoline stations in parts of the United States hit by a massive flout were also unable to open Friday morning, leaving millions of drivers without fuel, the American Automobile Association said.
		In Canada, Shell SHC.TO RD.AS SHEL.L said it was restarting its 75,000 bpd refinery in Ontario, while Imperial Oil Ltd. IMO.TO said it was preparing to restart its two Ontario plants, which add up to 237,000 bpd, after they were brought down Thursday.
		The main artery for Canadian oil shipments to the U.S. Midwest and southern Ontario, run by Enbridge Inc. ENB.TO, was also crippled by the flout.
	www.rense.com /general40/disrup.htm (457 words)

	USATODAY.com - Northeast residents struggle with effects of blackout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Canada and the United States formed a joint task force Friday to investigate and determine how to prevent it from happening again.
		Crime in the city was actually down compared to an average evening, and the looting that had marked the city's notorious 1977 flout didn't appear.
		In Canada's capital of Ottawa, police reported 23 cases of looting, along with two deaths possibly linked to the flout — a pedestrian hit by a car and a fire victim.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-08-14-power-out_x.htm (991 words)

	Blackout in US, Canada was preventable: officials - www.theage.com.au
		A massive August flout that plunged eight US states and the Canadian province of Ontario into darkness was preventable and triggered in the United States, officials said today.
		"This flout was largely preventable," US Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said as he presented an interim report on the worst flout to hit North America in years.
		At the time of the flout, there was a rash of cross-border finger pointing about exactly who was to blame.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/11/20/1069027222541.html (355 words)

	Massive power blackout hits millions in Canada and the US
		Whatever the immediate cause of the flout, it is bound up with the systematic deregulation of the energy industry and removal of any form of serious public control over the corporate giants that dominate it.
		The people of California, the US and, increasingly, the entire world are paying the price for the dismantling of previously existing forms of public oversight and regulation of big business.
		The US media, itself owned and controlled by corporate behemoths, has worked to confuse and manipulate public opinion, doing its best to eradicate from mass consciousness the traumatic lessons learned by previous generations about the supposed “magic” of the capitalist market.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/aug2003/elec-a16_prn.shtml (1122 words)

	The Agonist: US, Canada disagree on PA nuclear plant role in blackout
		The Agonist: US, Canada disagree on PA nuclear plant role in flout
		US, Canada disagree on PA nuclear plant role in flout
		Reuters AlertNet: A severe outage at a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant seemed to be the cause of the massive power flout that hit large areas of North America on Thursday, the office of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien said.
	www.agonist.org /archives/007088.html (171 words)

	Blackout: Canada blames US (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Toronto - Ontario Premier Ernie Eves insisted on Friday that the cause of massive power outages that hit the northern United States and Canada was on the US side of the border.
		"Canada has concluded this morning that indeed it did happen in the upper Midwest US, not in the province of Ontario," Eves told a press conference.
		The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, and New York State Governor George Pataki said earlier that they believed the source of the flout was in Canada.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1402975,00.html (169 words)

	Satan's Laundromat: Blackout!
		Posted by: ~bc at August 15, 2003 11:20 PM Great Pictures,,everyone seemed unpanicked by it all..I was visiting from Florida and made it back to Patchogue,ny with my niece just in time..we sat and had beers and had a campfire in her backyard..it was great..
		Posted by: cat at August 21, 2003 05:40 PM I thought that the pictures were great and the captions were good, but I dont get the name.
		Posted by: Ronelle at September 4, 2003 02:20 PM Thanks for a look at New York and the life there even when there is a disaster be it only a power failure.
	www.satanslaundromat.com /sl/archives/000112.html (2033 words)

	bit-tech.net Forums - Blackout throughout East Coast of the US and Canada...
		LOL of course the us is blaming canada...
		The US power plants could not handle their own load any longer so they shut down.
		The weather people they have in the US said there wasn't a single lightning strike in the area so it couldn't have been that.
	forums.bit-tech.net /printthread.php?t=38212 (622 words)

	ipedia.com: Dennis Kucinich Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kucinich was born in Cleveland, Ohio, as the eldest of the seven Croatian children of Frank and Virginia Kucinich (Kucinić).
		Kucinich was often lampooned in editorials and editorial cartoons as Dennis "the Menace," a reference to the comic strip of that name, Kucinich's name and youthful appearance, and his positions, which in that context were often characterized as extremist and anti-business.
		Kucinich was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996 and represents the tenth district of Ohio.
	www.ipedia.com /dennis_kucinich.html (1598 words)

	CBS News \| Massive Blackout Hits U.S., Canada \| August 14, 2003 22:49:34
		Officials were looking at a power transmission problem from Canada as the most likely cause for what some are calling the biggest electrical outage in U.S. history, said a spokeswoman for New York Gov. George Pataki.
		Canadian authorities said it appeared lightning had struck a power plant on the U.S. side of the border in the Niagara Falls region, setting off outages that spread over an area of 9,300 square miles with a population of roughly 50 million people.
		The flouts affected a broad swath of the Northeast stretching west to Ohio and Michigan and into southern Canada, starting shortly after 4 p.m.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/08/14/national/main568396.shtml (1119 words)

	Power Restored to Millions Following Massive Blackout in US, Canada
		The United States and Canada have formed a joint task force to find out why power failed across much of the northeastern United States and Canada's Ontario province.
		Investigators suspect the largest power outage in North American history was triggered by malfunctioning transmission lines in Ohio and a broken alarm system that failed to signal trouble.
		U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said on the television program Fox News Sunday that it is premature to place blame.
	www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2003/08-17-2.htm (306 words)

	Forbes.com: US-Canada blackout report to be released Wednesday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In an interview this week, U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said the report would point to specific electric utilities and power grid operators that failed to comply with reliability standards during the event.
		U.S. congressional investigators released transcripts in September showing chaos in the control room of Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp. and communication problems with the Midwest-area grid coordinator hours before the flout began.
		U.S. indexes are delayed at least 15 minutes with the exception of S&P 500 which is real-time.
	www.forbes.com /markets/newswire/2003/11/19/rtr1153033.html (504 words)

	OE \| August 2003 Blackout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		January 12, 2004 — This Excel file is a summary of all comments and recommendations received by DOE on the Blackout Report via email and the Blackout Forum as of 1-12-04.
		December 16, 2003 — This Excel file is a summary of all comments submitted at the 12-16-03 meeting.
		U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham and Canadian Natural Resources Minister Herb Dhaliwal have agreed to lead a U.S./Canadian task force to oversee the conduct of a comprehensive inventory of the causes of the outage, including the cascading effects that shed loads throughout eight states.
	www.electricity.doe.gov /news/blackout.cfm?section=news&level2=blackout (1005 words)

	> energy.gov : Press Releases : U.S. - Canada Task Force Presents Final Report on Blackout of August 2003
		The team found that the ability to supply reactive power within the area had been inadequate for several years, and that the regional reliability council had not previously identified this vulnerability.
		Today, U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham and Natural Resources Canada Minister John Efford release the final report on the August 2003 flout.
		The report identifies what caused the flout and why it could not be contained.
	www.energy.gov /engine/content.do?PUBLIC_ID=15424&BT_CODE=PR_PRESSRELEASES&TT_CODE=PRESSRELEASE (673 words)

	USA - Canada: impact of blackout on water supply - IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the Detroit area (USA) extra chlorine was added to the water as 4.3 million people were under a boil water advisory until 18 Aug. One county, Macomb, ordered all 2300 restaurants closed until they were decontaminated after the advisory was lifted.
		In Ottawa (Canada) residents were urged to cut back on water use to save electricity as nuclear power stations take up to 9 days to get back online.
		Water consumption increased by 10% after the flout, which is too much for the emergency generators to handle.
	www.irc.nl /page/3124 (247 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Blackouts cause N America chaos
		Canadian officials said a fire at a power plant near the upstate New York town of Niagara caused the outage, but US officials disputed that theory, although they said terrorism was not to blame.
		But US officials were looking at a power transmission problem from Canada as the most likely cause of the biggest outage in US history, said a spokeswoman for New York Governor George Pataki.
		He says the authorities promised to restore power for rush hour but while electricity is returning slowly to the suburbs, the island of Manhattan remains in the dark.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3152451.stm (823 words)

	CNN.com - Major power outage hits New York, other large cities - Aug. 14, 2003
		One possibility was a lightning strike in the Niagara region on the U.S. side of the border, according to the Canadian Department of National Defense.
		The last big flout in the United States took place almost exactly seven years ago, August 11, 1996, when some 4 million customers in nine Western states and parts of Mexico lost power for as long as 10 hours.
		In the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965, the largest in U.S. history, at least 25 million people in New York, New England and portions of Pennsylvania and New Jersey lost electricity for a day starting late in the afternoon of November 9.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/08/14/power.outage (1312 words)

	Correspondents Report - US, Canada power blackout long predicted
		HAMISH ROBERTSON: The power flout which shut down much of the north-east of the United States and south-eastern Canada had been long predicted.
		President Bush says that the system is antiquated, while a former US Government Energy Secretary went even further, by describing as it as Third World.
		But the integrated structure is supposed to have an inbuilt system which prevents a regional flout from cascading.
	www.abc.net.au /correspondents/content/2003/s925921.htm (637 words)

	Power Outage \| canada.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the latest or breaking news on the flout, please return to http://www.canada.com/national/ or visit your city page.
		Rolling flouts remain a concern, public servants are still being told to stay home and industry is operating at half power but the head of Ontario's public power generating company said yesterday the utility has done a "remarkable" job of responding to the crisis.
		Canadian Press, Aaron HarrisOne week after Ontario was plunged into darkness after a massive flout, the province was expected to import more power Thursday from other jurisdictions to cope with a surge in electricity use because of soaring temperatures and limited domestic energy availability.
	www.canada.com /national/features/blackout (923 words)

	US, Canada fight blackout - theage.com.au
		The United States and Canada slowly recovered today from the largest power outage in North American history, as President George W. Bush called the massive flout a "wake-up call" to fix an antiquated electricity grid.
		Officials were trying to pinpoint the cause of the breakdown and to discover how it cascaded so quickly through much of the north-eastern United States and the Canadian province of Ontario, knocking New York City, Detroit, Cleveland, Ottawa, Toronto and a host of smaller cities back into the pre-electric age.
		As Americans digested the speed with which the electricity system collapsed, they also expressed relief that the flout was not the result of terrorism.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/08/16/1060936087312.html?from=storyrhs (721 words)

	U.S. - Canada Task Force Presents Final Report on Blackout of August 2003
		After the publication of the Interim Report in November 2003, the investigation team probed further into the state of reactive power supplies in northern Ohio prior to Aug. 14, 2003.
		The Task Force reviewed previous major North American power outages and found that the causes of the Aug. 14, 2003, flout were strikingly similar to those of earlier outages.
		Canada’s Prime Minister and the President of the United States established the Canada—U.S. Power System Outage Task Force on August 15, 2003, to identify the causes of the flout that affected North America, and to make recommendations toward reducing the likelihood of future outages.
	tdworld.com /news/final-blackout-report (690 words)

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