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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
I don't recall who stated who was responsible for the blackout in '03. I do recall seeing something on Discory Channel or National Geographic that sourced it north of the Canadian border as the origins.
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Pataki did say something like that but there were just as many erroneous statements made north of the border as well (i.e. Chretien said it stemmed from a lighning strike on a Nuclear Power Plant in new Jersey or something like that).
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On November 19, 2003, the U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force released an interim report placing the cause of the blackout on FirstEnergy Corporation's failure to trim trees in part of its Ohio service area. The report said that a generating plant in the Cleveland, Ohio area went off-line amid high electrical demand and strained high-voltage power lines later went out of service when they came in contact with "overgrown trees". It also found that FirstEnergy did not warn other control centers until it was too late because of a bug in the UNIX based General Electric Energy's XA/21 system [2] (http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8016) and inadequate staff. The cascading effect that resulted ultimately forced the shutdown of more than 100 power plants.
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