克里斯·明恩斯表示，活动人士不应对一项高等法院判决“过度兴奋”，该判决裁定新南威尔士州亨特地区一座煤矿扩建项目的批准无效。
Chris Minns says activists should not get “overexcited” about a high court judgment that ruled the approval of a coalmine expansion in the New South Wales Hunter region was invalid.
这位州长还表示，政府没有计划因该判决而修改新州法律或法规，并称这样做将冒“抛弃”该州矿业环境声誉的风险。
The premier also said the government had no plans to change NSW laws or regulations in response to the decision and that doing so would risk “jettisoning” the environmental reputation of the state’s mining industry.
国家最高法院周三裁定，MACH Energy位于马斯韦尔布鲁克的蒙特普莱森特煤矿扩建项目的批准无效。
The nation’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that the approval of MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coalmine expansion in Muswellbrook was invalid.
法院大多数法官认定，独立规划委员会（IPC）未能考虑施加条件，旨在将煤炭在海外出售和燃烧时产生的所有排放降至“最大程度可行”水平。
A majority of the court found the Independent Planning Commission (IPC) failed to consider imposing conditions aimed at minimising all emissions generated by the coal when it was sold and burnt overseas to the “greatest extent practicable”.
“我认为大家不应对该判决过度反应，也不认为正在考虑诉讼的活动人士应该过度兴奋，”明恩斯周四对媒体表示。
“I don’t think everyone should overreact to the decision, and I also don’t think that activists considering court actions should get overexcited,” Minns told media on Thursday.
“这是一个非常狭窄、技术性的决定，涉及IPC的一个考量因素。
“It was a very narrow, technical decision about a consideration for the IPC.
“我了解到，自然资源部长考特尼·豪索斯已与矿方首席执行官进行了交谈。他们正寻求继续通过IPC推进申请。”
“I understand that the [natural resources] minister Courtney Houssos has spoken to the CEO of the mine. They’re looking to continue an application through the IPC.”
州长表示，政府没有计划因该判决而改变州法规，并补充说该州矿业拥有“世界级声誉”，因其安全性和标准，以及作为一个“考虑环境因素的矿业”而著称。
The premier said the government did not have plans to change state regulation in response to the decision, adding that the state’s mining industry had a “world class reputation” for its safety and standards and as a “mining industry that takes into consideration environmental factors”.
“我认为我们不应仅仅因为能够同时拥有充满活力、不断增长的矿业，同时保护澳大利亚矿业来之不易的声誉，就抛弃这一声誉，”他说。
“I don’t think we should just be jettisoning that reputation when we can have both a vibrant, growing mining industry while protecting the hard-fought reputation for the mining sector in Australia,” he said.
代表丹曼-阿伯丁-马斯韦尔布鲁克-斯科恩健康环境小组（Dams Heg）参与诉讼的Johnson Legal律师事务所主管伊莱恩·约翰逊表示，这令人欢迎。
Elaine Johnson, the director of Johnson Legal, which represented Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group (Dams Heg) in the court proceedings, said this was welcome.
“政府尊重判决结果，并未针对澳大利亚最高法院作出的这一重大决定寻求仓促的立法回应，这是正确的决定，”她说。
“It’s the right decision from the government to respect the result and not to seek a kneejerk legislative response to such a significant decision from Australia’s highest court,” she said.
明斯还淡化了该判决可能给该州其他煤矿扩建项目带来法律挑战的评论，包括最近批准的该州最大煤炭项目——亨特谷作业（HVO）扩建项目。
Minns also downplayed commentary that the decision could pose legal challenges for other coalmine expansions in the state, including the recent approval of the state’s biggest coal project, the Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) extension.
他说，他认为法院“关于法律狭窄方面的技术性裁决”已通过政府的煤炭声明和委员会对HVO项目的附加条件得以解决。
He said he believed the court’s “technical decision about a narrow aspect of the law” had already been dealt with through the government’s coal statement and the commission’s conditions for the HVO project.
“我不认为这将成为新南威尔士州矿业投资和扩张的终结，”他说。他认为蒙特普莱森特项目的裁决“可以在符合HVO裁决的前提下由独立规划委员会（IPC）重新作出，而HVO裁决是在不到七天前作出的”。
“I don’t think it’ll be the end for both investment and expansion for mining in New South Wales,” he said. He believed the Mount Pleasant decision “can be remade in the IPC consistent with the HVO decision, which was made less than seven days ago”.
但新南威尔士州绿党气候变化发言人兼环境律师苏·希金森表示，法院的判决“颠覆了亨特谷作业项目面临的法律现实”。希金森在周三的高等法院裁决后表示，该项目的批准可能面临“重大法律困难”。
But NSW Greens climate spokesperson and environmental lawyer Sue Higginson said the court’s decision “upends the legal reality facing the Hunter Valley Operations project”. Following Wednesday’s high court ruling, Higginson said the project’s approval could face “significant legal difficulty”.
“工党州长克里斯·明斯要么收到了糟糕的建议，要么他在否认现实，未能正视高等法院判决所确立的开创性新范式，”她说。
“Labor premier Chris Minns has either received bad advice or he’s in denial and is failing to reckon with the groundbreaking new paradigm imposed by the high court decision,” she said.
“令人惊讶的是，州长挥舞着他的新煤炭政策，这样做反而暴露了他自己的煤炭政策的阿喀琉斯之踵。
“Surprisingly, the premier is waving around his new coal policy, and in doing so has drawn attention to his own coal policy’s achilles heel.
“煤炭政策明确排除了对下游排放的考量，而这正是高等法院现在判决中指出必须依法予以考量的排放。”希金森表示，针对该判决所需的是“对在新南威尔士州开采的煤炭燃烧所造成的实际影响进行真实且彻底的评估，无论燃烧发生在何处”。
“The coal policy explicitly rules out consideration of downstream emissions, the exact same emissions the high court have now said must be considered under law.”Higginson said what was required in response to the judgment was “a genuine and thorough assessment of the actual impacts that will be caused by the burning of coal mined in NSW, no matter where that burning takes place”.
高等法院认定，新南威尔士州规划当局未能考虑芒特普莱森特煤矿 98% 排放量的影响及缓解方案，她说道。
“The high court has found NSW planning authorities failed to consider the impacts of, and the mitigation options for, 98% of the Mount Pleasant coalmine’s emissions,” she said.
在完全相同的情况下，独立规划委员会未能评估亨特谷作业煤炭开发项目 98% 的气候影响。约翰逊表示，周三的裁决符合全球日益增多的类似判例。
“In exactly the same circumstances, the Independent Planning Commission failed to assess 98% of the climate impacts of the Hunter Valley Operations coal development.”Johnson said Wednesday’s decision was in line with a growing body of cases around the world.
这一系列判例法明确指出，企业和政府需对其化石燃料出口产生的排放负责，她说道。
“That body of caselaw is clearly stating that corporations and governments are responsible for emissions generated by their fossil fuel exports,” she said.
昨天的裁决确认，虽然《巴黎协定》为排放提供了全球核算机制，但这并不免除对出口排放的问责责任，而这一责任仍落在 2026 年仍寻求扩大化石燃料生产的企业和政府身上。
“The decision yesterday confirms that while the Paris Agreement provides a global accounting mechanism for emissions, it does not displace accountability for exported emissions, which lies with corporations and governments still seeking to expand fossil fuel production in 2026.”