Benthic habitat surveys of potential LNG hub locations in the Kimberley region.

审议了金伯利地区的一些地点是否适合作为拟议的共用液化天然气枢纽区的选址。其中包括古尔顿湾、泉东-库伦点、垂直头和帕克岛。这些潜在地点的海洋底栖生物群落在很大程度上没有被描述。西澳大利亚州环境和保护部(DECWA)代表北部开发工作队(NDT)与CSIRO海洋和大气研究所(CMAR)和澳大利亚海洋科学研究所(AIMS)接洽，对该地区的四个地点进行了联合底栖群落调查。<br/> <br/> 该调查数据将补充有限的现有数据，并将被NDT用来对要包括在战略环境评估(SAE)中的合适地点进行排名和选择。这项遴选程序将用来物色合适的枢纽选址，避开可能包含复杂海洋生境、特有物种和重要野生动物的高生物多样性和对受威胁物种、高生产力和结构复杂的地区，以尽量减少对栖息地的干扰。

A number of sites in the Kimberley region were considered for their suitability as a location for a proposed common-user liquefied natural gas hub precinct. These included Gourdon Bay, Quondong - Coulomb Point, Perpendicular Head and Packer Island. The marine benthic communities at these prospective sites are largely undescribed. On behalf of the Northern Development Taskforce (NDT), the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation (DECWA) has approached CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) to undertake a joint benthic community survey of four locations in this region. <br /> <br /> This survey data will compliment the limited existing data and will used by NDT to rank and select suitable sites to be included in a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SAE). This selection process will be used to identify a suitable hub site that will minimise the degree of habitat disturbance by avoiding areas of high biodiversity and significance for threatened species and high productivity and structural complexity that may contain complex marine habitats, endemic species and important wildlife.