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                                                                    10 Trafalgar Vale Avenue
                                                                Wellington Point QLD 4160
                                                                               3 March 2015

Ms Kerri Coyle
Noosa Council Planning & Environment Manager

Dear Ms Coyle,

I write to introduce myself and confirm my involvement with No Broiler Farm Cooroy (The
Group).

I was put in touch with the The Group by the Sustainable Poultry Alliance (SPA). I had
regular interactions with SPA on a variety of chicken meat industry issues from 2006 to 2012
during my time with the Queensland Government Environment Department, particularly as a
member of the Poultry Roundtable Guidelines Working Group. I am currently employed by
the Queensland Government in a temporary role with Workplace Health and Safety
Queensland. I have no dealings with poultry farm development in this role.

I am an environmental scientist (Masters of Applied Science in Environmental Toxicology)
with extensive experience in state government roles dealing with the planning and operation
of intensive animal industries (including beef cattle feedlots, piggeries, aquaculture). I was
on the steering committee for the development of the inaugural national guidelines for beef
cattle feedlots and was also the editing author of the guidelines.

I am assisting The Group in a voluntary capacity. The assistance I provide is to help The
Group understand better the science, policy and legislation in relation to poultry
developments, and environment protection matters more generally.

I have:
 Provided to the The Group a critique of the Guideline: Odour Impact Assessment From
    Developments and its use in reports supporting the development proposal;

   reviewed, on 2 March 2015, a draft submission by The Group titled Critique of the
    Chicken Meat Industry Science: Dust and Odour – I consider it a fair and reasonable
    account of the matters it addresses;

   sighted the material The Group has received from the Sustainable Poultry Alliance and I
    can verify that the material is genuinely from the Roundtable process and has been
    presented in context; and

   noted that The Group has used two unreferenced documents (“K factor” and “odour
    log”). I supplied these documents to SPA for the purposes of education and training.
    They are extracts from actual documents, but SPA was not provided with the full
    document nor was the source identified fully. I consider the way The Group have used
    these documents is not inappropriate.

Should you wish to contact me directly, my email address is [email protected] and my
phone number is 0402 556 292.

Yours sincerely