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It would currently have two large outlet channels built to drain water from Lake Manitoba into Lake St. Martin then into Lake Winnipeg. &#8220;The federal government had already expressed significant concerns,&#8221; Lisa Naylor, Manitoba&#8217;s minister of transportation and infrastructure, said Thursday. &#8220;If the federal government had withdrawn the licence because of the environmental impact, the project would be dead. 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