I think it is pretty unreasonable to compare Ontario's coal industry to Germany's. [0] Ontario went from about 20% coal based electricity, whereas as recently a

I think it is pretty unreasonable to compare Ontario's coal industry to Germany's. [0] Ontario went from about 20% coal based electricity, whereas as recently as 2013 Germany relied on coal for nearly half of all of its electric power. Furthermore, Ontario's economy has been effectively stagnant over that period, and the cost of energy clearly played some role in that. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288 (though German-extracted coal is largely too expensive to bother with now)