UPDATE:
A community meeting to discuss plans for a chicken manure-fired power plant at Mount Cotton will be held at the Mount Cotton State School Hall on Sunday at 2.30pm.
Concerned resident Amanda Wrigley, organised the meeting and sent out and delivered hundreds of flyers inviting residents.
It is still unknown whether power plant developer Cleveland Power's David Bray will address the meeting.
Local councillor Julie Talty will not attend due to prior engagements.
Mr Bray is in negotiations with Redland City Council after the council refused to extend his approved town planning application for the power plant.
This morning Mr Bray issued a statement saying he was "tired" of "unwarranted community fear that has been whipped up in the Mount Cotton area".
“Alarmist claims that Mt Cotton is to become the home of a huge “Incinerator” to burn chicken manure are simply wrong," the statement says.
“According to Cleveland Power David Bray. “Cleveland Power is not building an incinerator.
"Quite frankly the community concern and panic such outrageous claims have created are, for the community,unforgiveable.”
“We are constructing a clean energy power plant, utilizing combustion as the primary source for the generation of environmentally clean power, sufficient to supply most of MT Cotton, Victoria Point, Cleveland and Sheldon combined. It is incorrect at every level to describe the clean energy plant as an incinerator."
The matter will return to the Planning and Environment Court next week.
Mr Bray said last week Cleveland Power had "tidied up" and clarified aspects of the approved application, in a bid to allow the council to overturn its December extension refusal.
"One of the plans had the wrong stack dimension on it and we have clarified that so the stack's diameter is clearly 1.3m," he said.
"The original approval was for options for two systems - one was a fluidised bed system and one was for a rotating kiln system.
"Our preference is for a rotating kiln but if that does not stack up for us after the final design process, we won't use it.
"It makes no difference which type of furnace we use to the emissions levels, which are regulated by the government," Mr Bray said.
In her leaflet, Ms Wrigley asks residents to "come and learn more about what is being planned for beautiful Mount Cotton from the people who have the knowledge.
"Do you really want a noxious industry on your doorstep?
"An incinerator pouring harmful gases, heavy metals and ash into the air we breathe?
"Listen to both sides of the debate and decide for yourself which one makes sense. All welcome."
More than 500 people have signed Ms Wrigley's online petition opposing the plant, since it started on Monday, November 12.
The petition went online two days before the Planning and Environment Court set November 30 as the next court date to review an appeal by Cleveland Power.
The case was adjourned on November 1 after Redland City Council and the power station developer Cleveland Power decided to negotiate.
Mount Cotton residents have sent a letter to Redland City CEO Bill Lyon asking him to object to Cleveland Power being given a permissible change to its town planning application.
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