The colonists hounded the Miccosukee ever farther south, until, eventually, they ended up with a few hundred mostly flooded square miles between Miami and Naples.
I've sat cross-legged in the middle of Venice's Piazza San Marco and looked down on the people in the flooded square.
Demonstrators of diverse backgrounds have flooded squares in major cities across the country over the past four days, yelling: "Dictator, resign!" The outburst has thrown up one of the toughest challenges to Erdogan's government since it came to power in 2002.
The reservoir will flood 18 square miles of prime farmland and displace 400,000 people, driving the cost of every kilowatt of generating capacity to $2,144 — triple that of the Three Gorges dam, according to Fan Xiao, a geologist who has fought the project for years.
But it will still be Brazil's second-biggest hydroelectric plant (after Itaipu), generating up to 11,230MW, will flood 500 square kilometres and will displace 20,000 people, mainly Indians.On January 26th the environment ministry gave contractors the go-ahead to start clearing land for Belo Monte.
A similar argument is made by the Yagén Defence Front YDFF) in Peru which is fighting the proposed construction of a 600 MW hydro-electric power project, Chadin 2, which would dam the River Maranon and flood 32.5 square kilometres, numerous villages, and extensive croplands and valleys high in biodiversity.
Brazil's environmental agency, Ibama, issued a license to the consortium Norte Energia SA on Wednesday to begin construction of the dam, which is expected to cost $16 billion and would flood 199 square miles of forest.
And despite the fact that this is flooding 41 square kilometres, it's still will flood 41 square kilometres, so there is debate over just how extensive that will be.
And despite the fact that this is flooding 41 square kilometers [about 25 square miles], it still will flood 41 square kilometers, so there is debate over just how extensive that will be.
Each was playing different music, and the overflow collided in a discordant shrill that flooded every square inch of the car like a swarm of angry mosquitoes.
