LORDSTOWN, Ohio - The Village of Lordstown is trying to stop construction of a $1.2 billion power plant. 

Clean Energy Future is building a second power plant next to its current facility along State Route 45. 

People living along Goldner Lane - less than a half a mile away from where the plant will expand to - said they didn’t want a first power plant and definitely don’t want a second one because of the noise. 

“At night time it's the most,” Donnie Burns, a Goldner Lane resident for 9 years said “You hear the all the equipment running and then you hear the turbines kick in (and) make a real bad whining noise.”

A complaint filed by the Village of Lordstown alleges that the company is building the plant on land zoned as residential - when it's only allowed industrial land. Back in June, people living on Goldner Lane were at the meeting where council denied the company a change of the land zoning - blocking them from building there. 

“They’re building so much in this industrial park,” Burns said. “They’re building right up to our back door.”

The complaint also states that the company is cutting down trees that were going to be a buffer of noise for the residents - but now that they’re gone residents are worried about what health effects listening to constant buzzing will cause.

On top of the noise they already have, the residents recently got an urgent letter in the mail telling them there will be noise in the early mornings of August 22, 29 and September 15 for concrete pouring of the new plant.

“Trucks in and out of here 24/7 so it's not going to be a good time for the next week or two,” Burns said. 

Clean Energy First has until, August 22 to respond to the complaint. 

21 News reached out to Clean Energy First and the Trumbull Energy Center site manager and they did not get back to us.