News in Review The Ice Storm: Powerless Against Nature
News in Review The Ice Storm: Powerless Against Nature
In this story we explore how nature overwhelmed technology, leaving millions without heat, light and other essentials of life. This natural disaster raises important questions about the fragile nature of our infrastructure, the security of power supplies in general, and our precarious reliance on a single source of power. The story also examines the political and human issues that such an unprecedented event exposed.
- 1998
- 00:16:12
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/04/2017
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Metadata
- Edition
- March 1998
- Subjects
- Ice storms -- Québec (Province) [LCSH] Electric power failures -- Québec (Province) -- History [LCSH] Crisis management in government -- Québec (Province) [LCSH] Québec (Province) -- History [LCSH] Social sciences [LCSH] Canada -- History [LCSH]
- Team
- Knowlton Nash (Host), Bob McDonald (Journalist)
- Closed captioning
- Not available
- MARC Record
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