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MACKINAW CITY — Federal officials heard an earful Wednesday from Line 5 pipeline opponents who expressed skepticism about the latest option to keep oil flowing through the pipeline while reducing the odds of a spill in the Great Lakes.

The outcry, expressed during an online public comment session hosted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, comes as the Corps considers permits for Canadian oil giant Enbridge Energy’s plan to replace a 4-mile segment of the pipeline that rests in the Straits of Mackinac with a segment buried in a concrete tunnel beneath the lakebed.

Last month, years into its review of that plan, the Corps opened de

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