> Not only that, but the loss of coal imports from Australia led directly to massive power outages in the northeastern provinces this fall.

This myth has been repeated so many times, how about: https://www.worldometers.info/coal/coal-production-by-countr...

The outage was caused by misguiding policy incentive (clean air etc), which was seen as a huge blunder, rightfully so, but it had nothing to do with Australian coal.