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Taieri MP Ingrid Leary and Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan (centre front) with (from left) Austrian company Polytechnik general manager Christian Jirkowsky, Pioneer Energy chief executive Fraser Jonker, Pioneer Energy manager Richard Ireland, Fonterra employees Todd Downie and Ian Hall, Fonterra lower South Island general manager operations Richard Gray, Fonterra employee Craig Seddon and Fonterra Stirling senior environmental manage Hannah Furze. PHOTO: MARY-JO TOHILL

Cakes were cut and sustainability pledged at both ends of the country last week with the official opening of Fonterra’s wood pellet boiler at its Te Awamutu plant and the announcement of Stirling’s get out of coal plan.