Fun Facts

• Electricity generation from coal is now 8 times more efficient than at the end of the 19th century.
• There is more stored energy in Canadian coal than all the country’s oil, natural gas, and oil sands combined.
• Coal is the world’s most abundant fossil fuel and second to oil as a source of energy.
• Coal generates about 39% of the world’s electricity.
• Coal is the single largest commodity carried by Canadian railroads.