<p><pre><code>  &gt; Yet, due to objections from environmentalists, the 
  &gt; project ended up going nowhere
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Or, say, objections from the entire city of Prince George, BC (population: 80,000), along with the tens to hundreds of thousands of other people who would need to be relocated in order to flood a 500-mile long stretch of Canada for the benefit of Californians.