I live in Alberta. I don't see 0.00's strategy effecting AB very much. We are tied to the Western grid, but cannot export south, only to BC (750MW AC tie line) or SK (150MW DC tie line). If anything, it should, theoretically, reduce the price of coal here, if 0.00 taxes it to US users. Generators will eventually retro-fit to NG, though that is a capital-intensive process.
We have 30-40,000 years supply of coal in this Province. I see all kinds of technological improvement in coal-fired generation technology. In addition, though I don't know the process, coal was used as feedstock to produce petrol in Nazi Germany, especially after they lost the oil fields in the east. It should not be too difficult to further frac the product down to C1 & C2.
I'm still wondering though, how a full tank of CNG, as used by buses all over the world, is safer than a full tank of compressed air?
How much more metal do the have surrounding the bomb?