Northeast American blackout, 2003

14th of August of 2003, 55 millions people were affected by a non-planified power outage

The causes were never clear. Canadian government gave all kind of contradictory explanations that the American government denied.

Canada supplies the energy to a large percentage of Americans living in the northeast cost.  In this blackout 45 out of the 55 millions affected, lived in the USA. The blackout started in one the energy generation stations in Ontario, Canada.