‘A real-life moment from The Castle’: the retired Australian couple who took on a coal giant and won

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Retired residents Wendy Wales and Tony Lonergan won a four-year legal fight against MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coal mine expansion in New South Wales. Their challenge argued that the climate harm from burning the coal should be considered, and the dispute reached the High Court.

Wendy Wales and Tony Lonergan’s four-year fight over MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coalmine went all the way to the high court Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here When Wendy Wales and Tony Lonergan and a few of their neighbours in the New South Wales Hunter region decided to take on the expansion of a local coalmine, people thought they were “crazy” to engage in the David and Goliath battle. “When we started this, people thought we were crazy – a little community group taking on a billion-dollar coal company, arguing that the climate harm from burning this coal is our problem too,” Wales says. Continue reading...