International Energy Agency Is Wrong to Forecast Coal’s Demise

A dragline works in coal pits in front of the SaskPower Shand Power Station south of Estevan, Saskatchewan, in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Troy Fleece

Commentary

Activists would have us believe that coal is a dying energy source. But, thankfully for American coal states such as West Virginia and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia—all of which use millions of tonnes of coal every year to generate electricity—that is not even remotely true.