"Hughes confirmed four coal-burning power plants went down Monday and (if you want more irony) there was no wind to power the province's wind turbines"

Alberta is awash in carbon-based energy resources, so why is it relying on wind turbines as a power source (which, by the way, aren't all that reliable; as Andrew Klavan explains in this droll video, the big problem with wind-power is the wind--"it keeps stopping")?