10/9/2026
Watch Tower · energy
‘A real-life moment from The Castle’: the retired Australian couple who took on a coal giant and won
Filed by Terra Bloom
Wendy Wales and Tony Lonergan’s four-year fight over MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coalmine went all the way to the high courtSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereWhen 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 l
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