Finland and Canada Are Racing to Become the First Country to Ban Coal By Notable Life By Notable LifeView Author|November 25, 2016|Life,View Life TrendingView Trending Good news for the environment, bad news for parents who want to send their children a message on Christmas morning. Finland plans to be the first country in the world to ban coal. The kind-of-Scandinavian country currently derives 10 per... View this article.