Power station health study important, says Minister
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The ACT Government has denied the work of a health impact assesment steering group on a controversial power station in Canberra's south is being dumped.
Health Minister Katy Gallagher says the official steering group has been disbanded but its work will be completed through the wider environmental impact study announced earlier this week.
The former chairman of the group Anthony Capon has expressed concerns about what will happen to the research which has already been done.
But Ms Gallagher says it will form an important part of the broader study into the proposed Tuggeranong project.
"I'm very confident that the work they've done will be handled through the consultants work but also if they feel that they want to make personal representations, then that that can be done through the EIS as well," she said.
"This is not about not listening to the steering group. It's a broader process now, it's out of my hands.
"It's under a statutory process and we need to allow that to continue but everything that was part of the HIH [health study] will continue. And all the things that Professor Capon appears to be concerned about can all feed into the EIS work."
