August 14, 2003

[james_davis_nicoll]

On this day in 2003, shoddy American infrastructure caused a blackout across the Northeast. As Americans raced to perjure themselves blaming Canada for a calamity caused by the Americans themselves*, Canadians reacted as unruly mobs have through history when faced with a sudden and unexpected infrastructure collapse, which is to run out into the streets to direct traffic.


* See also the US custom of falsely blaming Canada for letting the 9/11 hijackers in the US. In defense of the people who claim this, many of them cannot tell truth from lies.

Comments

[nojay.livejournal.com]

They did build a couple more reactors, or at least brought some existing mothballed reactors back into operation. Ontario now generates all of its baseload with nuclear (about 6GW) and hydro (variable between 4 and 6GW). They've got a couple of gas plants in case of shortages but they don't run on a regular basis and they're adding a biomass-burner option to one of them. The result is no coal generators anywhere and functionally zero-CO2 production of electricity, better even than France.

http://www.opg.com/power/

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for the reactors!

Now annex the US so we can stop choking to death.