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Citizen poll results: Should Canada stop exporting coal to other countries for them to produce power?

The poll ran from Feb. 14 to 24. Of the 728 votes, we can determine that 426 are from within the community.
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This handout image shows the proposed plan for the Sukunka metallurgical coal mine in northeastern B.C.

Prince George Citizen polled 728 Prince George Citizen readers and asked the question: Should Canada stop exporting coal to other countries for them to produce power?

The poll ran from Feb. 14 to 24. Of the 728 votes, we can determine that 426 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes, as soon as possible 20.89% local, 19.51% total    
Yes, but gradually over a period of years 22.54% local, 21.15% total    
Not sure 6.10% local, 6.18% total    
No, but only sell to countries friendly to Canada 18.78% local, 18.82% total    
No, if we don't, someone else will 31.69% local, 34.34% total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Prince George Citizen readers that are located in Prince George. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.61%, 19 times out of 20.

Prince George Citizen uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.