Okay so fb has 180 days to remove the equipment. What's the problem?
They won’t
Facebook abandons broken drilling equipment under Oregon coast seafloor
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#12This appears to be a case of no harm, no foul.
There is no environmental damage and no danger to the residents.
The residents that didn't want to see a small construction project, the size of a residential lot, will now have to put up with it for another year.
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#14This is extra-disappointing because Oregon has previously successfully gotten Facebook to cooperate when planning its large infrastructure projects. The Prineville facility was designed with local environmental and labor concerns in mind, but this coastal venture looks disastrous.
I don't understand what the actual issue is. The chance of environmental damage seems very low. And probably less than if they put heavy machines onto the beach and coastal zone.
the chance of environmental damage isn't low, it is zero. The drill site is tiny and the neighbors simply don't like the noise.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
They won’t
No, seriously, just go set a reminder to catch up on this story in 6 months. Let’s come discuss this again then.
They might come to an agreement with regulators to leave the equipment there, however it seems like you're implying that facebook intends to act in blatent contempt of the governments order. That is difficult to imagine. Have they ever done that to the usa gov in the past? (not on a hurr durr media thinks facebook is evil kind of way, but in an actual, here is an order and we intend to ignore it)
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, seriously, just go set a reminder to catch up on this story in 6 months. Let’s come discuss this again then.
They might come to an agreement with regulators to leave the equipment there, however it seems like you're implying that facebook intends to act in blatent contempt of the governments order. That is difficult to imagine. Have they ever done that to the usa gov in the past? (not on a hurr durr media thinks facebook is evil kind of way, but in an actual, here is an order and we intend to ignore it)
That's actually the case? Did anyone else here read the article? "Facebook has no plans to retrieve the equipment."
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
They might come to an agreement with regulators to leave the equipment there, however it seems like you're implying that facebook intends to act in blatent contempt of the governments order. That is difficult to imagine. Have they ever done that to the usa gov in the past? (not on a hurr durr media thinks facebook is evil kind of way, but in an actual, here is an order and we intend to ignore it)
That's actually the case? Did anyone else here read the article? "Facebook has no plans to retrieve the equipment."
When i read it, i thought it meant - original fb plan: fb leave the equipment in place. Gov didn't like that, so gave them 180 days to either remove it or get approval to leave it there. Now ball is in fb's court on how to respond to government order.
To me though this sounds less like - gov wants fb to remove and more like gov wants fb to fill out appropriate paperwork
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#18Is it normal to drill a 1km hole under the Beach and out to sea to land a trans-ocean cable? I was under the impression you merely digg it into the Beach for 1-2m?
They are commonly drilled out quite a distance with HDD, as the landing point may not be actually at the beach, etc.
I have some pictures here of submarine cable landing stations in Hawaii, including the Hawaiki CLS under construction with some HDD being done. https://photos.app.goo.gl/H2Y7K112wcAoSjtN2
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#19This is extra-disappointing because Oregon has previously successfully gotten Facebook to cooperate when planning its large infrastructure projects. The Prineville facility was designed with local environmental and labor concerns in mind, but this coastal venture looks disastrous.
I don't understand what the actual issue is. The chance of environmental damage seems very low. And probably less than if they put heavy machines onto the beach and coastal zone.
It seems like everything is already safely disposed of, deep underground.
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#20Where exactly are these 6500 gallons of drilling fluid and how would they have been retrieved if the project was succesfull?
They are not boring a tunnel... So is there just a quite thin pipe in the ground? is it filled with the fluid? Or is there some storage for the fluid?