"Coal Hard Facts" in a Land of Make Believe - Alberta ...
2021-1-31 · They claim that coal mining “employs thousands of Alberta workers.” This simply isn’t true. Statistics Canada data show that, at its peak between 1997 and 2019, there were 2,985 coal mining jobs in Alberta. That peak was in 1998. In 2019, the sector had shrunk by 49 percent. There were only 1,542 workers in Alberta’s coal industry.
