Nigel Denys Carter CEnv FEI MIEMA (born 1 April 1947) is an

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, politician, member of the

Devizes Guardians The Devizes Guardians are a local political party based in Devizes, Wiltshire, England. The party was formed in 2001 and has been successful in winning seats on Kennet District Council and Wiltshire Council, but at present is represented only o ...

party since 2002, and a member of Devizes Town Council. He has also served as a Kennet District Councillor and was a

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lor from 2009 to 2013. His first career was as a

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Career

Born in

Marlborough, Wiltshire Marlborough ( , ) is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath. The town is on the River Kennet, 24 miles (39 km) north of Salisbury and 10 miles (16& ...

, Carter was educated at the

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and from there was commissioned into the

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. He served as a naval officer from 1963 to 1970, receiving his wings as a fixed-wing aircraft

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and qualifying in gunnery. He served in the aircraft carrier , the , the

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, and the

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on Whale Island.Nigel Denys Carter, CEnv, FEI
at plaxo.com On 1 May 1968, he was promoted to

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. In 1970 he was discharged from the Navy on medical grounds. After returning to civilian life, Carter worked for British Petroleum between 1970 and 1992, as a general manager in the Shetland Islands and

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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

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, including the

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. His experience includes capacity building in the

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and Greenhouse gases, as well as the Environmental management system. Places he has lived and worked include

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, and

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

, and he has made many visits to Sub-Saharan Africa.Biographies
at iram.org.ar In 1986 he received a Certified Diploma in Finance and Accounting from the City Polytechnic,

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, and in 2007 Oxford Brookes University awarded him a Certificate in Strategic Environmental Assessment. Since 1997, Carter has been a member of the

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's delegation to ''TC207'', otherwise the Technical Committee 207 on Environmental Management of the

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(

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). He has been responsible for drafting three

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, ISO 14015 (2001),

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(2002), and ISO 14064 (2006). The first is a standard on Environmental management and Environmental assessment of sites and organizations, the second Guidelines for Quality and Environmental Management Systems Auditing, and the third a Specification with Guidance at the organization level for Quantification and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals. He is a

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of the

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, a professional body, and a member of the

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Political life

By 2001, Carter was living in

Devizes Devizes is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman castle, and received a charter in 1141. The castle was besieged during the Anarchy, a 12th-century civil war between ...

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, and in that year a new local political party called the

began to be formed, in the aftermath of the felling of five trees in the Devizes Market Place,Labour loses out after dead heat lottery draw
Thursday 8 May 2003, article online at gazetteandherald.co.uk where Carter's office then was. The party registered with the

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on 19 June 2002. In its registration, it named Carter as its leader and chairman. On 1 May 2003, Carter was elected to Kennet District Council as a Devizes Guardian, in the Devizes North

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, commenting "We have to acknowledge there is an element of

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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." However, four years later in May 2007 he lost the seat to a

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. The

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Kennet Kennet may refer to: Places in the United Kingdom *Kennet, Clackmannanshire, Scotland People *Baron Kennet, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom * D. Mark Kennet (born 1957), American economist *Josh Kennet (born 1987), English-Israel ...

was abolished in April 2009, as part the

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, and replaced by a new

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. In the first elections to the new authority, on 4 June 2009, Carter was elected as a member for Devizes North. He is also a school governor and a member of the Devizes Development Partnership. In Wiltshire Council, the Devizes Guardians held three seats from 2009 to 2013, and these members formed a

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with Carter as Leader. However, they lost all these seats at the local elections of May 2013.Unitary council elections - May 2013
at wiltshire.gov.uk

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Nigel Denys 1947 births Graduates of Britannia Royal Naval College Living people Royal Navy officers English environmentalists Members of Wiltshire Council

Career

Political life

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