BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

A month after a citizens' group forced a Brant County farmer-led co-operative to abandon its bid to build an ethanol plant in Cainsville, another group has formed to try to oust it from its originally intended location in the city’s northwest.

More than 100 people living around the northwest industrial area turned out Wednesday evening to an organizational meeting in Tranquility Hall of the new Citizens Concerned About an Ethanol Plant in Brantford.

The purpose was to lay the building blocks of a campaign to persuade city council, Brant MPP Dave Levac and federal election candidates in the riding to try to stop an attempt by Integrated Grain Processors Co-operative Inc. to build an 86-million ethanol plant on 48 acres in the privately run Oak Park North business park, north of Highway 403.