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Comments on the Science Underlying the Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

Author: Peer Review Group

Date: July 1999

In 1997, Ok Tedi Mining Ltd formed a Peer Review Group (PRG) of senior scientists to provide advice, recommendations and peer review of all studies related to the HERA.  The five PRG members were: namely Professor Margaret Burchett, Professor Peter Campbell, Dr Peter Chapman (Chair), Professor William Dietrich, and Professor Barry Hart. This  report comments on the science applied to the studies, as it was available to the PRG in final or final draft form.