WIND Power Pty Ltd's first Community Reference Group meeting is closed to the public and the media.

The company wants to build a 19-turbine wind farm at Stoney Rises near Tuki and has formed a committee to access community opinions.

The CRG will meet tomorrow night at Smeaton Bowling Club but Wind Power, which established the group, has only invited members of the committee.

Director Andrew Newbold said the meeting needed to be controlled and orderly and that couldn't be done if it was open to the public.

"We need people to feel free to have their say without people shouting at them or preying on every word they say," Mr Newbold said.

The meeting will discuss terms of reference for the controversial proposal.

A technical adviser will be the only Wind Power representative at the meeting, which will be co-ordinated by an independent consultant.

Protest group Spa Country Landscape Guardians spokesperson Richard Evans questioned the proponents' motives for closing the meeting to non-members.

"Considering that this proposal will not only effect the local landowners, but the broader Hepburn Shire, it appears that Wind Power has something it wants to hide," he said.

Mr Evans also suggested Wind Power had arranged an independent public relations company to run the meeting in an attempt to "smooth over the bumps".

Half of the CRG members are members of the Spa Country Landscape Guardians.