A class action lawsuit has been filed against Hydro-Québec following a major power outage that left thousands of residents in Montreal’s west end without electricity for days during extreme cold. The outage, caused by a failure at the aging Hampstead substation, knocked out power to large parts of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Côte-Saint-Luc and Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce beginning the morning […]
We were without power for 48 hours. We were lucky enough to have a generator, I spent probably about $60 on fuel to keep my unit just barely above zero (heater said 3 degrees celsius).
People fled to their friends and families. Two elderly people died. Many more had nowhere to go and suffered.
As you said, HQ knew this substation was failing for years, and chose to do nothing until people died. And even then, I’m not sure they’re gonna learn anything from this event.