温迪·威尔士（Wendy Wales）和托尼·罗纳根（Tony Lonergan）为反对MACH Energy公司旗下的芒特普莱森特（Mount Pleasant）煤矿而进行了长达四年的斗争，这场官司一直打到了高等法院。当时，温迪、托尼以及新南威尔士州亨特地区的几位邻居决定对抗当地一家煤矿的扩建计划时，人们都认为他们卷入这场“大卫对阵歌利亚”的较量是“疯了”。
Wendy Wales and Tony Lonergan’s four-year fight over MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coalmine went all the way to the high court 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.
“当我们开始做这件事时，人们觉得我们疯了——一个小型社区团体去对抗一家价值数十亿美元的煤炭公司，辩称燃烧这些煤炭带来的气候危害也是我们自己的问题，”威尔士说。
“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.
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