Another good news story:
Building solar farms and batteries in these traditional coal mining areas provides alternative jobs from people who used to work in/around the coal mines/powerstations, makes use of the existing transmission infrastructure, starts the process of rehabilitating the sites of old coal mines, etc. etc
Does it solve every issue? No
Positive step forward though.
And here's the natural next step:
https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/green-steel-projects-move-beyond-europe-to-asia/
Western Australia, where the thing in the OP is happening, is basically solid iron ore (which we currently ship to China), is almost always sunny (and when it's not, it's windy), and already has all the infrastructure to transport all the raw materials needed to make steel using hydrogen produced by renewables.
Why not make the steel here and sell that to China? 🤷♂️