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ClimateThe GuardianEvent: AustraliaEvent: United KingdomAttributed to source2026-10-07About 1 min to read this excerpt2 versionsDesk template

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

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

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

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/08/retired-hunter-valley-couple-mach-energy-mount-pleasant-coalmine-high-court

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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. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

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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. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

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  1. First on desk · 10/7/2026, 10:00:26 PM
    ‘A real-life moment from The Castle’: the retired Australian couple who took on a coal giant and won
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  2. Update · 10/7/2026, 10:00:26 PM
    ‘A real-life moment from The Castle’: the retired Australian couple who took on a coal giant and won
    Original link
The Guardian reports the following. ENC is republishing it as an attributed briefing, not as independently confirmed fact. If this item is false or incomplete, the responsibility sits with The Guardian, which released it. 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. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading... Original link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/08/retired-hunter-valley-couple-mach-energy-mount-pleasant-coalmine-high-court

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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. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

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