President
McCharles Environmental Services Ltd.

Mr. Robert McCharles established McCharles Environmental Services Ltd. in 2009 following a 20-year career with Dillon Consulting Ltd. He opened and built the Dillon office in Sydney and held the positions of office manager, associate, managing partner, and director of regional operations (Atlantic and Quebec region) during his career. Prior to this, he worked with Morrison Beatty Environmental and spent 11 years with Nova Scotia Department of Environment.

Mr. McCharles is a 1977 Cape Breton University graduate in environmental engineering technology and has worked for the past 34 years as an environmental practitioner in the field of hydrogeology, environmental assessment, environmental remediation and geothermal energy. As a project manager, he has been responsible for the fiscal, technical and personnel management of multi-disciplinary, high profile and publicly sensitive environmental assignments, from proposal to project completion. He managed one of the largest residential environmental investigations ever undertaken in Canada – the North of Coke Ovens Sampling Program in 2001 in Sydney.

Mr. McCharles was a founding director and past chair of ECO Canada and was profiled by this institution as one of the “builders” of the environment sector in Canada. In 2000, he was one of three panellists in a nationally televised debate on climate change. In 1992, he became the first Nova Scotia recipient of the Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists National Achievement Award.

Mr. McCharles is a founding director of the Coxheath Hills Wilderness Recreation Association, director of the Cape Breton Music Industry Cooperative (CBMIC), and former vice president with the Sydney Area Chamber of Commerce.