# Christian Knott General Manager – Approvals & Sustainability ## Career chronology - **Preceding the September 2025 Alligator appointment; exact start and end dates not established: Heathgate Resources** — Environmental and sustainability team lead at uranium ISR operations. [Executive Appointments to Drive Value Creation at Samphire]() (p. 1, executive appointments); [Alligator Energy Annual Report 2025]() (p. 17, degree and appointment) - **Effective 22 September 2025: Alligator Energy Limited** — General Manager – Approvals & Sustainability. [Alligator Energy Annual Report 2025]() (p. 17); [Executive Appointments to Drive Value Creation at Samphire]() (p. 1, executive appointments) ## Suitability for the current role ### Environmental approvals experience matches project-permitting role [christian_knott_background] Before and from Sep 2025 · analyst inference · medium materiality Company annual report lists BSc Environmental Science and an effective start date of 22 September 2025. Issuer announcement says he brought 15+ years in environmental management, regulatory approvals and sustainability, most recently leading Heathgate’s environmental/sustainability team. A South Australian government-hosted flora monitoring document names him as Heathgate recipient but is not evidence of regulatory compliance performance. An independent flora-monitoring report distributed in January 2025 named Knott at Heathgate, corroborating employer association, not his personal compliance performance. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Professional background and remit are issuer-described; the government-hosted report confirms project involvement only, not performance or compliance outcome. **Relevance:** Directly relevant to environmental approval and regulator engagement duties at a uranium project. [Alligator Energy Annual Report 2025]() (p. 17); [Executive Appointments to Drive Value Creation at Samphire]() (p. 1, executive appointments); [Beverley, Beverley North and Four Mile annual flora monitoring 2024]() (annual flora monitoring report, document distribution, final 6 January 2025) ### Samphire permit and environmental approval work remains in progress [christian-knott_role_fit] Sep 2025–cutoff · analyst inference · medium materiality Christian’s role includes progressing the mining lease application and regulatory oversight. At FY2026 report, the company said it would continue baseline environmental studies and regulator work in FY2027; no mining lease had yet been granted. This is current work scope, not evidence of a failed approval or adverse environmental finding. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The management remit overlaps the approvals status; no personal failure or responsibility for delay is established. **Relevance:** Material for the approvals-critical path; the project remains pre-permit and pre-development. [Executive Appointments to Drive Value Creation at Samphire]() (p. 1, executive appointments); [Alligator Energy Limited Annual Report 2026]() (p. 15, future plans/approvals pathway) ## Evidence gaps - Exact dates and attributed outcomes at prior employers remain incomplete. - No reviewed evidence established a person-specific fraud, safety, environmental or legal finding beyond those stated above; open-web searches are not exhaustive checks. - Employer compliance histories and credential registers have not been comprehensively checked. - Earlier person/topic search logs were inherited from the historical report and could not be independently verified. The October 31 review used broad searches; topic-specific records, full employer histories and independent credential checks remain incomplete. - Heathgate employment start and end dates remain unknown; the 22 September 2025 date is the Alligator start date, not Heathgate commencement.