No, it wasn't the American Music Awards - it was a proposal to put a test wind turbine in Lake Ontario.

Hundreds of Scarborough residents, Toronto Hydro employees and members of the Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) came out to a community meeting Monday night to respond to the plan.

Eventually, the proposal would see 60 similar structures about two kilometres out from the shore from Ajax to the Leslie Split (seen above in an artist's rendering).

Though the meeting at Sir Wilfred Laurier Collegiate was well-behaved, emotions ran high.

"We have waited long enough for this project to happen. We have an opportunity here to start finally taking action...Consider the future of my generation!" a young woman pleaded.

She was met with loud applause.

"We need to act quickly to curb global warming and reduce smog," pointed out Franz Hartmann Executive Director, TEA.

"That's why Toronto Hydro must have the right to install an anemometer to determine whether the right conditions exist in Lake Ontario."

However, opponents say it will be an eyesore, hurt migratory birds and contribute to the erosion of the bluffs.

Dave Fair, a Scarborough resident, illustrated another concern.

"I don't mind having it here as far as property taxes go," he noted. But others might.

"The energy situation is a big problem, so anything to solve that," Fair added.

In an email to CityNews, another resident said the meeting was anything but neighbourhood-based.

"Special-interest groups from all over [and] a hundred-plus Toronto Hydro employees, were bussed in to stone-wall the "community" meeting," wrote Joe Trentadue.

"All in all, it was not a "community event" and a disgrace to Toronto Hydro for manipulating what started out to be an information event for the community. Many community members, I for one, left early with disgust, at the brow-beating antics of the over-staged Toronto Hydro personnel and their obvious supporters," he concluded.