SHEFFIELD, Vt. – Residents in this Northeast Kingdom town are trying to organize their neighbors to oppose a proposed industrial wind farm on a nearby mountain.

About 35 people crammed into the town office Wednesday to discuss their concerns about the proposed 24 turbines, sitting on 320-foot towers, that a developer wants to build on Hardscrabble Mountain.

But town officials say they had a lot of questions, too.

“We are as much in the dark as you are,” Selectman Max Aldrich told the group. “There are many, many, many unanswered questions.”

UPC Wind Management, based in Newton, Mass., wants to put the turbines on Hardscrabble Mountain and nearby ridge lines. The company has been measuring wind on the mountain for about two years.

Project manager Tim Caffyn held an informational meeting attended by about 100 at the town hall June 23.

“The meeting we had did not answer a lot of questions,” Sheffield resident Malcolm Goldstein said. “I would like clear information.”

Goldstein suggested holding another meeting.

Many people expressed their strong opposition to the turbines, and others accused the wind-farm developers of all kinds of malfeasance. Ron Pal of Sutton said he was dead set against wind towers and that he had not heard anyone speak in favor of them. But he cautioned detractors to get their facts straight. “Before making a statement make sure you’re right,” he said.

No one at Wednesday’s meeting spoke in favor of the wind farm, although not everyone spoke.

Caffyn was not at the meeting. Town Clerk Kathy Newland said it was not clear the issue would be on the agenda until the morning of the meeting.