The plant would be built at the intersection of Indiana 64 and 66, within 45 miles of Louisville.
Hundreds of people from all over Crawford County packed into a meeting Wednesday night to try and convince state regulators not to grant emissions permits to the company trying to built this plant.
"I'm very worried about it," Crawford County resident Cara Beth Jones said.
In response to the proposal to build the plant, Jones formed the group called Concerned Citizens of Crawford County.
She said she supports green technology, but biomass technology isn't green at all.
Biomass plants create energy by burning organic matter like trees and wood, which Jones said, pollutes the air.
The federal government disagrees.
"It is, by the federal government standards, a renewable fuel worthy of renewable fuel credits. That's not a decision I make, that's a decision Congress makes," Matt Stuckey, IDEM Air Permits Branch chief, said.
Proponents of the project also said it's a renewable form of energy that will bring jobs to this economically fragile area.
But many residents and environmental groups said the risks far outweigh benefits, most importantly, potential damage to the Blue River.
"We like the land, we like our rural way of life and there's just a lot of things we need to preserve down here and that river is one of them," Jones said.
Forrest Lucas, owner of the multi-million dollar Lucas Oil Company, said he agrees and is throwing his support behind residents.
"I'm pretty concerned about this. it's something every American should be concerned about. We're doing lots of research on this and finding out lots of bad things. I don't know how this got through our federal government. This is so ridiculous," Lucas said.
