Sitting on the bend

Photo: Stephen Jaquiery
Photo: Stephen Jaquiery
Stirling, with a population of 350, sits on the north branch of the Clutha River about 5km from Balclutha. It is home to Fonterra’s cheese plant, the co-op’s first manufacturing site in the South Island to get off coal and the first site to be running on 100% renewable thermal energy.