The purpose of Lake Wabamun Watch is to coordinate information gathering, monitoring, and sharing that meets the needs of the communities surrounding Lake Wabamun and also fulfills the requirements of condition 4.1.5 in the Wabamun Power Plant Approval.

Lake Wabamun Watch has been established to:

• Ensure all stakeholder communities are informed of forecasted environmental changes or monitoring results that could affect their quality of life.
• Ensure a clear and satisfactory means for citizens to have input into decisions that could result in changes to the lake or to their quality of life.
• Ensure TransAlta and Alberta Environment are made aware of concerns that could possibly affect the quality of life in stakeholder communities.
• Ensure that citizens have a satisfactory opportunity for input into decisions about TransAlta’s activities and proposed developments in the Lake Wabamun area.
• Ensure that citizens can audit the environmental monitoring process.

Lake Wabamun Watch will focus on discovery of facts and clarification of information. It's role is to disseminate accurate and unbiased information about TransAlta's activities. The executive may raise concerns directly to TransAlta, Alberta Environment, or other agencies (e.g. the regional health authority) if the concern has been supported by the general committee.