Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon
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Re: Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon
#2At first I thought "Facebook doesn't lay cable do they?" but to my surprise:
>Facebook subsidiary Edge Cable Holdings
How common is it when you want to build out a cable like this, you have a subsidiary of your own do it?
I would think you could just contract that out...
Re: Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon
#3How come fb is not panalized of environmental disaster or pollution..??
Re: Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon
#4How come fb is not panalized of environmental disaster or pollution..??
There doesn’t appear to be any environmental damage yet, though it’s possible this incident will produce some in the future. Also, they are being penalized: they’re being fined for violating their original permit and being required to rectify the situation, either by removing the offending materials or coming to some agreement with Oregon to leave it there in exchange for as-yet-undpecified compensation.
Re: Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon
#5At first I thought "Facebook doesn't lay cable do they?" but to my surprise: >Facebook subsidiary Edge Cable Holdings How common is it when you want to build out a cable like this, you have a subsidiary of your own do it? I would think you could just contract that out...
...and exactly how many facebook scale projects do you run?
probably cheaper for them to use the cable company they bought likely to support crazy projects like this.
Re: Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon
#66,500 gallons of drilling fluid sounds much scarier than a 9.54ft cubic container's worth of water and clay.
Re: Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon
#7That's... not that much, is it? I'm trying to find a good mental model for water volume. Best I got is an olympic pool contains 500,000 gallons. So, around 1% of an olympic pool.
Or around 160 oil barrels worth.
Re: Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon
#8How come fb is not panalized of environmental disaster or pollution..??
There doesn’t appear to be any environmental damage yet, though it’s possible this incident will produce some in the future. Also, they are being penalized: they’re being fined for violating their original permit and being required to rectify the situation, either by removing the offending materials or coming to some agreement with Oregon to leave it there in exchange for as-yet-undpecified compensation.
With environmental pollution there doesn't need to be any actual damage to sue.
Re: Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon
#9At first I thought "Facebook doesn't lay cable do they?" but to my surprise: >Facebook subsidiary Edge Cable Holdings How common is it when you want to build out a cable like this, you have a subsidiary of your own do it? I would think you could just contract that out...
...and exactly how many facebook scale projects do you run? probably cheaper for them to use the cable company they bought likely to support crazy projects like this.
Is Facebook running cables at unusually large scale?
Re: Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon
#106,500 gallons of drilling fluid sounds much scarier than a 9.54ft cubic container's worth of water and clay.
Anything to get the clicks