Astrebla’s Principal Simon Danielsen has over 18 years experience in ecological consultancy, vegetation management policy and decision making, and botanical identification.
Simon has been involved at a senior level in ecological field investigations and reporting, and the impact assessment and approval process, for many of the largest proposed infrastructure projects in Queensland and the Northern Territory in the last 10 years, including the following…
Sea Farms Group
Sea Farm Group’s Project Sea Dragon is located across four sites in the Northern Territory, and will be the biggest prawn farm in the southern hemisphere when completed.
- See their website at: https://seafarms.com.au/about-project-sea-dragon/
- Read Astrebla’s impact assessment report for the main grow-out facility, located on Legune Station near Kununurru, at: https://ntepa.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/376490/draft_eis_seadragon_legune_growout_appendix14_flora_vegetation_assessment.pdf
Carmichael River mine and rail project (Adani)
Simon was a key contributor to the EIS and supplementary EIS for the Carmichael River mine and rail project (as a Principal Botanist at GHD). You can view impact assessments and reports in which he was a key author at:
- Doongmabulla mound spring report: http://eisdocs.dsdip.qld.gov.au/Carmichael%20Coal%20Mine%20and%20Rail/EIS/Appendices/N2-Doongmabulla-Springs-Report.pdf
- Waxy cabbage palm population survey report: http://eisdocs.dsdip.qld.gov.au/Carmichael%20Coal%20Mine%20and%20Rail/SEIS/Appendices/Appendix%20J/Appendix-J4-Population-Survey-of-Waxy-Cabbage-Palm-Report.pdf
- Mine terrestrial ecology report: http://eisdocs.dsdip.qld.gov.au/Carmichael%20Coal%20Mine%20and%20Rail/EIS/Appendices/N1-Mine-Terrestrial-Ecology-Report.pdf
- Doongmabulla and Mellaluka Springs Supplementary EIS report: http://eisdocs.dsdip.qld.gov.au/Carmichael%20Coal%20Mine%20and%20Rail/SEIS/Appendices/Appendix%20J/Appendix-J3-Doongmabulla-and-Mellaluka-Springs-Report.pdf
- Updated mine terrestrial ecology report: http://eisdocs.dsdip.qld.gov.au/Carmichael%20Coal%20Mine%20and%20Rail/SEIS/Appendices/Appendix%20J/Appendix-J1-Updated-Mine-Ecology-Report.pdf
Other major projects
- Hancock Prospecting’s proposed 500 km rail link from Alpha to Abbot Point – see the Executive Summary at: https://www.statedevelopment.qld.gov.au/resources/project/alpha-coal-project/alpha-coal-executive-summmary.pdf
- APLNG Spring Gully terrestrial ecological assessment, 2013
- BHP/BMA 300 km rail link from Moranbah to Abbot Point
- Chinalco’s Aurukun bauxite proposal, 2007-2009
- Western Corridor Wastewater Pipeline Project, 2006-2007.