Sheila Watt-Cloutier “Northerner of the Year”

Up Here, a Yellowknife-based magazine that serves the tourism industry, has named Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conferences, as their “Northerner of the Year” for 2005.

An Up Here press release issued this week says Watt-Cloutier is recieving the award for her work in helping to bring about a global ban on persistent organic pollutants, and her more recent work on global warming.

Watt-Cloutier is featured in an article published in the magazine’s November-December issue.