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Proponents of a $1 billion central Queensland wind farm proposal rejected by Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie say they will try again under the Crisafulli government’s updated application scheme.

Their decision comes as Bleijie, also the state’s planning minister, was forced to publicly defend his May call to reject the Moonlight Range project amid questions about an opposition group.

Bleijie said the group, Cairns-based conservation charity Rainforest Reserves Australia, had to “answer for themselves” about the veracity of their work, but insisted he did not rely on it.

The group’s vice president, Steven Nowakowski, told a federal Senate inquiry that artificial intelligence was used to “edit” one of its error-laden submissions to the state-based process.

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