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While US President-elect Trump has promised to bring jobs back to the coal-mining industry despite market forces favoring cheaper natural gas, America’s northern neighbor is pressing to move beyond the fuel that started the Industrial Revolution.
On Monday, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna announced a plan to completely phase out coal-burning power plants by 2030—unless those plants capture and store their carbon dioxide emissions.
Although fossil fuels only account for about 20 percent of Canada’s electricity due to a significant amount of hydroelectric power, coal is responsible for about three-quarters of energy CO2 emissions. That’s equivalent to the emissions of 1.3 million cars, the government said.
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Source: Ars Technica – Canada will dump its coal power plants by 2030