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Wednesday, 19 February 2025

Sitting on the bend

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    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.  

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