The company behind the £2 billion project - which aims to make use of experimental 'carbon capture' technology - has been accused of failing to properly inform and consult the community on Bute.
Those concerns echo complaints from campaigners in n
orth Ayrshire, who have launched a legal challenge to the project because they feel that consultation by Ayrshire Power Limited, which was a partnership between Danish power company Dong Energy and UK firm Peel Energy Ltd, was not properly carried out.
And news last week that Dong has withdrawn from the scheme - which could still see a 1600-megawatt station built to replace the existing nuclear power plant - has failed to quell the residents' fears.
David Brown, whose home at the Wee Bay in Kingarth looks directly towards the site, said: "We haven't been consulted at all but we are the ones who will have to look at it.
"I wonder just how many people living on Bute are completely oblivious to what is being proposed here.
"The plan is that this power station will have a chimney that is five hundred feet high.
"That is going to absolutely dominate the landscape - it will be way above the height of the hills behind it.
"I'm aware that Dong Energy have pulled out of the project, but the other parties involved still seem to be planning to go ahead with it.
"I'm not deriding those on the north Ayrshire side who are campaigning against the plan but it's the people living here who will wake up in the morning and find themselves looking straight at an industrial area much bigger than the one we have at the moment."
The proposed Hunterston station, which its supporters hope will eventually use carbon capture techniques to reduce its environmental impact, was a late addition to the list of priority projects in the Scottish government's national planning framework - several months after public consultation on the framework had closed.
Ayrshire Power held exhibitions in Fairlie, West Kilbride, Largs and Millport earlier this month to provide information about the project.
But campaigners from CONCH (Communities Opposed to New Coal at Hunterston) have launched a legal challenge to the scheme, claiming that the consultation did not meet EU requirements.
CONCH spokesman Tim Cowen told us: "We are very keen to build links with people on Bute, because they haven't been consulted either.
"Our primary concern is the impact of this power station on people's health, but the situation is only made worse by the fact that there has hardly been any consultation.
"That has made people even more angry, and even more determined to oppose the project."
Bute councillor Len Scoullar told us: "No-one has been asked about this on Bute at all, which is something I find a bit difficult to understand, because the people in Kingarth and Kilchattan Bay will probably be at least as affected as those in north Ayrshire - and that is of concern to me.
"I would be against anything which would be detrimental to the quality of life of the people who live in that area of the island.
"Coal-powered stations are fine, provided the science is there to stop the emissions, but I would be opposing it if it were going to be affecting the people of Kilchattan Bay."
Ayrshire Power's project director, Muir Miller, said: "We are currently engaged in an extensive consultation process which has encompassed a series of public exhibitions in local communities in the area as well as meetings with community councils in the immediate vicinity of Hunterston.
"We have also met with a number of MSPs and MPs including Jim Mather, MSP for Argyll and Bute, and further such meetings are planned in the near future.
"This consultation process is ongoing and will continue as we progress our plans for this exciting initiative which will bring a significant number of new jobs to the local economy."
More information about the CONCH campaign group can be found at
www.conchcampaign.org - while Ayrshire Power's plans can be viewed in more detail at
www.ayrshirepower.co.uk or by contacting ayrshirepower@peel.co.uk.
