Wishart Robson is Climate Change Advisor to the CEO and President of Nexen Inc. where he is responsible for providing strategic analysis and advice to the Board and Senior Executives and otherwise preparing the company for a future carbon economy.
Mr Robson began working for the Fisheries Research Board of Canada in 1970 and subsequently worked for various federal environmental agencies for 11 years participating in studies in a diversity of ecosystems on mercury contamination, eutrophication, aquaculture and later, resource management and the regulation of extractive industries. Mr. Robson has spent the past 29 years working in the oil and gas sector where he held increasingly senior environmental and safety positions while working in Canada and 50 international locations on exploration, development and transportation projects including offshore developments in Nigeria, Australia, the UK sector of the North Sea as well as Hibernia and Terra Nova off the coast of Newfoundland. He has specialized in emergency response management, the fate and effects of marine spills, safety of large project construction and startup and more recently all matters related to carbon and climate change.
Mr. Robson joined Nexen Inc. in 1997. Although, he had been active on the climate change/global warming file since 1988, it was at this point in his career that he was able to devote more of his professional and personal attention to the issue. He currently represents Nexen on several national and international oil and gas associations, the International Emissions Trading Association (where he co-chairs the CCS working group) and ICO2N, the Integrated CO2 Network, which is an initiative that is investigating the options available to Canadian industry and government to make carbon capture and storage a viable option for significant carbon emissions from various energy production operations and other industrial processes. Wishart was appointed by the Prime Minister to the Canadian National Roundtable on the Economy and the Environment in August of 2007 by the federal Minister of the Environment.
