This episode discusses the importance of Bathurst Resources and their Stockton coal mine to the Buller economy and our community.   This means utilising the coal resources available including the Denniston Plateau to ensure a decades long time period to plan and enable a just transition of the economy and the people of the Buller.  Making a plan for when the coal runs out.

This episode points out that stopping mining and developing new economic initiatives aren't mutually exclusive, they can and need to work in parallel.  A successful coal sector provides the economic backbone to explore, underwrite and deliver diversification but this work, although started already will take decades.  Fortunately, there is decades worth of viable coal reserves to do just that.