The Way of Life Study responds to the second of two requests made by the people of Fort Chipewyan in 1992, when representatives of BC Hydro attended a meeting in Fort Chipewyan. The first request was that BC Hydro work with the community's main groups and with Canada and Alberta to find ways of restoring water and biological productivity to the Peace-Athabasca Delta. It resulted in the Peace-Athabasca Delta Technical Studies, completed in 1996. The second request was that BC Hydro work with the community groups towards agreement on compensation for past impacts of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam on the people's way of life. The Way of Life Study's purpose was to discover what those impacts have been, to identify appropriate ways of responding to them, and also to provide the information needed for discussion and final agreement. The resulting report is not a joint report presenting the mutual understanding originally hoped for. Instead, it is a consultant's report presenting the results of a consultant's best efforts to find and interpret the information available.