Dan Bourassa

Daniel Bourassa

B.Sc.
Associate / Office Manager
E: dbourassa@dillon.ca

Bio

Dan has over 13 years of experience as a terrestrial biologist specializing in natural environment related works for government, industry, real estate and resources sectors. His project work includes project management, agency consultation, permit acquisitions and implementing agency-approved natural environment field programs in support of Environmental Assessment (EA) processes.

In addition to project management, Daniel specializes in remote field data collection and serves as Dillon’s in-house bat expert and as a species at risk permitting and approvals specialist. He possesses an in-depth understanding of both federal and provincial legislative requirements with respect to species at risk and has successfully obtained various municipal, provincial and federal regulatory permits and approvals. Daniels is trained in Ecological Land Classification (ELC) as well as Forest Ecosystem Classification (FEC), and is experienced in ecologically classifying lands based on Forest Resources Inventory (FRI) data interpretation.

ECWE

Eglinton Crosstown West Extension - Toronto, ON

As Technical Advisor (TA) to Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx and part of the Arup TA Team, Dillon provided environmental, permits, licenses, and approvals (PLA), and stakeholder engagement services in support of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension (ECWE) light rail transit/subway project in Toronto.Read More