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Gary Peters: “If you're looking for the worst absolute place for an oil disaster to occur, it would be the Straits of Mackinac.”

On the recordAugust 19, 2018
If you're looking for the worst absolute place for an oil disaster to occur, it would be the Straits of Mackinac.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Highlighting the vulnerability of the Straits of Mackinac to oil disasters.

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