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Nigel Denys Carter CEnv (born 1947) is an English Chartered Environmentalist, politician, leader of the Devizes Guardians party since 2002, and a member of Wiltshire Council since June 2009.

Life

Carter was educated at the Britannia Royal Naval College and from there was commissioned as an officer into the Royal Navy. He served in the Navy from 1963 to 1970, receiving his wings as a fixed wing pilot and then qualfying in gunnery. During his naval career he served in the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious, the Leander class frigate HMS Minerva, HMS Dufton and the shore establishment HMS Excellent on Whale Island.[1] On 1 May 1968, he was promoted Lieutenant.[2] He was discharged from the Navy on 18 November 1970 on medical grounds.[3] However, he remained on the Navy's Supplementary List until 1994, when he transferred to the Retired List with the rank of Lieutenant Commander.[4]

After leaving the Navy, Carter worked for British Petroleum between 1970 and 1992, as a general manager in the Shetland Islands and Africa in the areas of exploration, production, trading, marketing and distribution. Since 1993 he has been Principal Advisor to En Venture, an environmental consultancy, working as a management consultant on Sustainable development solutions for industry in the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim, and Europe, including the Balkans. His experience includes capacity building in the European Monetary System and Greenhouse gases. [1] Places he has lived and worked include Zambia, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and he has made many visits to Sub-Saharan Africa.[5]

In 1986 he received a Certified Diploma in Finance and Accounting from the City Polytechnic, London, and in 2007 Oxford Brookes University awarded him a Certificate in Strategic Environmental Assessment.[1]

Since 1997, Carter has been a member of the United Kingdom's delegation to TC207, otherwise the Technical Committee 207 on Environmental Management of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). He has been responsible for drafting three ISO standards, ISO 14015, ISO 19011, and ISO 14064.[5]

Politics

By 2001, Carter was living in Devizes, Wiltshire, and in that year a new local political party called the Devizes Guardians began to be formed, in the aftermath of the felling of five trees in the Devizes Market Place.[6][7]. The party registered with the Electoral Commission on 19 June 2002, naming Carter as its Leader and Chairman.[8]

On 1 May 2003, Carter was elected to Kennet District Council as a Devizes Guardian, in the Devizes North ward, commenting "We have to acknowledge there is an element of protest vote in the support we have had. The question of the future of the hospital has been paramount in the issues expressed by the people we have talked to, with transport coming a close second."[6][9][10] However, four years later in May 2007 he lost the seat to a Conservative.[11]

The District of Kennet was abolished in April 2009, as part of a reorganization of local government in Wiltshire, and replaced by a new Wiltshire Council unitary authority. In the first elections to the new authority, on 4 June 2009, Carter was elected as a member for Devizes North.[12][13] He is also a school governor[14] and a member of the Devizes Development Partnership.[15]

In the Wiltshire Council, the Devizes Guardians hold three seats, and these members have formed a political group with Carter as Leader.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Nigel Denys Carter, CEnv, FEI at plaxo.com
  2. ^ London Gazette, Issue 44625 of 28 June 1968 (Supplement), page 7343 online
  3. ^ London Gazette, Issue 45232 of 13 November 1970 (Supplement), page 12587 online
  4. ^ London Gazette, Issue 53638 of 11 April 1994 (Supplement), page 5468 online
  5. ^ a b Biographies at iram.org.ar
  6. ^ a b Labour loses out after dead heat lottery draw, Thursday 8th May 2003, article online at gazetteandherald.co.uk
  7. ^ 'The worst is yet to come for residents, November 2001, at gazetteandherald.co.uk
  8. ^ Devizes Guardians at electoralcommission.org.uk
  9. ^ Chapter 48 Wiltshire, 48.1 Kennet at andrewteale.me.uk/2003
  10. ^ DECLARATION OF RESULT OF POLL at politicsresources.net
  11. ^ Kennet District Council election results - 3 May 2007 at wiltshire.gov.uk
  12. ^ Nigel Carter at wiltshire.gov.uk
  13. ^ Devizes Guardians win Devizes North seat 5 June 2009 at thisiswiltshire.co.uk
  14. ^ Meet the Guardians at devizesguardians.co.uk
  15. ^ Kennet Economic Partnership launched at tidworthcommunityarea.info
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