Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case

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Australia’s High Court upheld a ruling blocking MACH Energy’s proposed expansion of the Mount Pleasant coal mine in New South Wales, in a case brought by a Hunter Valley community group. Advocates say the decision establishes an important national precedent for considering climate impacts in fossil-fuel projects.

Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says A Hunter Valley community group has won Australia’s first high court case to consider climate change, in a ruling advocates say sets a binding national precedent for fossil fuel projects in New South Wales. In a landmark judgment, the nation’s highest court upheld a unanimous ruling by the NSW court of appeal that overturned MACH Energy’s proposed expansion of its Mount Pleasant coalmine in Musswellbrook. Continue reading...