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Melting arctic ice has opened up the Northwest Passage, but what are the tourism and environmental implications of that?

MPR News host Kerri Miller spoke with Alain Grenier, a sociologist and professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal, about how both commercial vessels and tourist ships may try to take advantage of the newly accessible passageway.

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Both commercial vessels and tourist ships may take advantage of newly accessible passageways in the Arctic.

Melting arctic ice has opened up the Northwest Passage, but what are the tourism and environmental implications of that? MPR News host Kerri Miller spoke with Alain Grenier, a sociologist and professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal, about how both commercial vessels and tourist ships may try to take advantage of the newly accessible passageway.

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