Mackinac pipeline gets OK

By John FlesherTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSTRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A proposal to run an oil pipeline beneath a crucial section of the Great Lakes cleared its final hurdle recently, gaining approval of a Michigan panel created a week earlier in a dash to complete the deal before Republican Gov. Rick Snyder leaves office.
The three-member Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority unanimously backed an agreement between the state and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge to drill a tunnel through bedrock up to