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Keeping the Community Informed
The main role of the Supervising Scientist is to establish the best methods to protect people and ecosystems from the impacts of uranium mining in the Alligators Rivers Region, both during and following mining activity.
In order to ensure that the Supervising Scientist undertakes the most relevant and appropriate research, we interact with the Aboriginal community, government, industry, the general community and special interest groups to determine what their concerns and expectations are.
The Supervising Scientist recognises that communication with all our stakeholders, particularly the owners, managers and users of the Alligators Rivers Region and its wetlands, is vitally important if we are to determine what issues are likely to impact on the community.
We also take into account the views of other environmental and mining experts and government agencies to ensure that the work conducted at eriss is also meeting the scientific and environmental expectations.
To reassure the users and managers of the land and the general public as to the level of environmental protection being achieved, we communicate the results of our wetland and radiological research in a variety of ways:
