COAL mining companies and Hunter communities may resist the transition to renewables. They may force governments to slow the transition through the ballot box. But in the end, the transition will come, ('King coal, digging in amid winds of change", Herald, 2/4).
The transition to green energy will be slow enough to allow coal mining towns to wind down and workers to retrain. It will be slow enough for workers and businesses to move to new places. Regional mining centres in Australia have always declined and become depopulated as underground supplies have become exhausted, or as demand declines.
