Lychpit residents voiced strong opposition to a biomass power station during a meeting at Old Basing's recreation ground tea rooms on Monday 10 May.
Well over 50 objectors crowded into the tiny hall for the meeting organised by the parish council and attended by representatives of the applicants as well as Peter Chadwick, Hampshire County Council officer who is handling the application.
The protesters left those seeking to build the power station, which would provide electricity to the national grid, in no doubt about the strength of opposition to the scheme.
Only one person said he had no objections to the facility being sited at the former SCG wastepaper recycling building in Armstrong Road.
Others expressed fears that emissions from the chimney stack, which would protrude 4m above the top of the building, would affect residents' health.
They were also worried about noise from the 24-hour wood burning plant and traffic dangers caused by lorries delivering wood chippings for incinerator.
There was disbelief in the hall when the company said the power station would be monitored from Grantham, Lincolnshire, during the night, and during the same period security would be handled from a control centre at Birmingham.
Biggest cheer of the evening was reserved for a woman who said that, despite attempts by the company to reassure residents about rigid pollutant and noise controls, it was totally wrong to site the power station only 190 meters from homes at Lychpit.
"Our house in Blackberry Walk will be one of the nearest to it, and I'm worried about the pollutants harming our two young children," she said. "I will be extremely annoyed if this goes ahead. Something like this should be situated well away from people's homes."
Residents have been given an extended deadline of the end of May to lodge objections with Hampshire County Council which will have the final say at a meeting in June.
Those wishing to object should email Mr Chadwick whose address is available on the county council website.