"There were certainly more people than what we thought," organiser Julie Gander said.

"Everyone was horrified. There was not one person who said it was a good idea - they all objected. So many people have heard tiny snippets and rumours, and on Thursday they just wanted information."

The developer of the incinerator and electricity transmission station touted for the corner of Carrick Rd and the Hume Highway, 12km north of Goulburn, was not there.

Sydney company Luscombe Enterprises Pty Ltd wants to truck waste from council areas to the site, on a 1.4ha area within the old Divall's Quarry.

With little information available from the developer to date, Ms Gander filled people in on what her community group has so far discovered.

The group claimed that company director Kerry Luscombe had told them that the incinerator would stand 60m high, cost $200 million and burn up to 350,000 tonnes of waste each year. The facility would operate seven days a week and involve four truck movements each hour.

Environmental consultant Robert Byrnes from Mittagong told the audience he normally worked on the other side of the fence, for the developers.

However, he outlined the incinerator's possible environmental effects, especially gas emissions. He said there were various types of dioxins, some of which were more hazardous than others, and which were more detrimental to the environment because they settled on the soil and didn't break down.

Mr Byrnes believed the incinerator would generate a brown haze, not just across the Carrick/Towrang area, but over much of the district, making the approach to Goulburn look like Sydney's outskirts.

He estimated the smokestack would be visible for miles to visitors travelling south along the highway, and therefore detract from local tourism.

Land values were also likely to plummet, Mr Byrnes said.

Ms Gander said the two and half-hour meeting included many questions from the public and a push to hold a similar forum in Goulburn.

An eight-member committee finalised at the meeting will meet on Monday to discuss this possibility further.

Ms Gander said Mr Luscombe was more than welcome to come to that meeting and inform the community about his plans.

"He wants to do the community consultation according to his timetable, but I would be more than happy for him to come along and tell us if we have misinterpreted his information," she said.

Meantime, meeting attendants snapped up hundreds of bumper stickers and signs saying 'no incinerator.'

The Goulburn Post's requests for comment from Mr Luscombe about the plan, through his local consultant, have so far been declined.