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  • Canada’s coal reserves in 2008 totalled 3.47 billion tonnes of anthracite and bituminous coal and 3.11 billion tonnes of sub-bituminous coal and lignite, for an overall total of 6.58 billion tonnes.
    Source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2009
  • Canada’s coal production in 2008 totalled 68.3 million tonnes. Coal is mined in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
    Source: Compiled by the Canadian Centre for Energy Information from various industry and government sources, 2009
  • Coal is the single largest commodity carried by Canada’s railways.
    Source: Coal Association of Canada, 2008
  • In 2007, Canada exported about 30 million tonnes of coal to more than 20 countries, with a value of more than $3 billion.
    Source: Coal Association of Canada, 2009; Statistics Canada, Energy Statistics Handbook, 2009
  • Alberta is Canada’s largest coal producer, followed by British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Source: Statistics Canada, Energy Statistics Handbook, 2009
  • Saskatchewan has three strip mines producing 15 per cent of the country's coal.
    Source: Statistics Canada, Energy Statistics Handbook, 2009
  • The Salmon Harbour mine in Minto, New Brunswick extracts approximately 150,000 tons of coal annually, which are used to generate electricity at the Grand Lake Thermal Generating Station.
    Source: NB Power, 2009
  • Canada has 0.8 per cent of the world's coal reserves. Canada ranks 13th well behind the United States, Russia and China, the three countries with the largest coal reserves.
    Source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2009