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Report: Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast:
Facebook has boldly face-planted right into one of the few remaining types of fuckups it hasn't before: quietly abandoning a pile of drilling equipment under the ocean.
Per The Oregonian, Facebook subsidiary Edge Cable Holdings was in the middle of drilling to place a trans-oceanic fiber optic cable off the coast of Tierra Del Mar, Oregon when a drill bit became stuck on April 28, 2020, rupturing a pipe approximately 50 feet below the seafloor. The company moved on, but "about 1,100 feet of pipe, a drill tip, various other tools, and 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid" did not. Edge notified county officials of the accident on May 5, Department of State Lands spokeswoman Ali Hansen told the Oregonian, but declined to mention it had left large amounts of equipment on the seafloor until it told state officials on July 17.
Hansen told The Oregonian that Edge's delay in informing state officials "eliminated any potential options for recovery of the equipment," while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told the newspaper that Edge plans to just construct a separate pipe in 2021 without cleaning up after itself. Hansen's department has notified Edge it is violating permits by continuing to "store" its equipment onsite, the paper reported, as well as notified Facebook it had 30 days to pay damages, 180 days to remove their junk or get a new permit, and must accept any liability for the incident.
[...] Facebook disputed these accounts, saying the state had been notified earlier and adding that Edge had determined its sea trash wouldn't harm the environment.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday August 14 2020, @06:57PM (23 children)
Quick googling suggests that Oregon leans Democratic. Thus they might actually believe in regulations. They might actually believe that drilling fluid is not harmless. They might even try to enforce regulations.
This was a stupid move on Facebook's part. A lesson I hope Facebook will learn from and not repeat.
Next time, drill off the cost of a state that does not believe in regulation over businesses, or care about health or the environment. A state that calls such policies "pro business". As in "we're a pro business state!".
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(Score: 3, Touché) by DECbot on Friday August 14 2020, @07:39PM (17 children)
And where exactly can we find this lucrative state on the Left Coast?
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @07:47PM (1 child)
Follow the smoke and smell of Molotov cocktails.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2020, @06:28AM
The state of OR will settle the case for 1000 user cancellations because real world toxic waste is much less of a public health issue than the existence of people who aren't sufficiently woke.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday August 14 2020, @07:49PM
Then maybe Facebook should not be abandoning drilling equipment and fluids, and instead look for different types of crimes to commit which they can get away with.
"...and I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids!"
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(Score: 1) by PaperNoodle on Friday August 14 2020, @08:26PM (1 child)
Oddly enough, I came across this movement [greateridaho.org] the other day.
Who knows maybe someday we can plan a vacation to the coastal state of Greater Idaho.
B3
(Score: 3, Funny) by captain normal on Saturday August 15 2020, @12:23AM
Well if they're going to convince anyone, they need to design a better web-site.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Friday August 14 2020, @08:56PM (11 children)
Follow the slick to Deepwater Horizon... Louisiana.
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(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Saturday August 15 2020, @06:33AM (10 children)
Let's recall that it was the Obama administration that relived that company of the usual regulatory requirement to have a safety plan.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/05/gulf-m06.html [wsws.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Saturday August 15 2020, @01:51PM (9 children)
Obama was no saint, but he at least put on a good face and maybe did a little more good than harm. I know that's a low bar, but since Carter it seems we just keep digging for lower standards as the decades roll on.
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(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Saturday August 15 2020, @04:36PM (8 children)
No saint? Due process free execution by secret tribunals using secret law. No saint indeed. Fucking satan.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday August 15 2020, @06:05PM (7 children)
Have we improved since?
Were we better off with WMD and the invasion of Iraq?
Take progress where you can get it, preferably demand progress at each election.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2020, @06:56PM (1 child)
Quite. I profited under Trump and will vote for him this year, after voting Green last time. A Biden presidency is likely to hike taxes and be run by people in the background, like under Baby Bush. A Harris presidency is likely to put many poorer people in jail for petty crimes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @01:44AM
Trump raped my wife, killed my children and ate their livers.
See, AC can say anything.
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Sunday August 16 2020, @01:20AM (1 child)
Have we whataboutismed enough? I'll just say that I don't see Obama as an improvement on Bush II or Trump.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday August 16 2020, @01:21AM
(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Sunday August 16 2020, @02:04AM (2 children)
We've had a hiatus from getting into new conflicts (mostly -- the Democrats and other warhawks did get their wish for some Syria bombings) since BushObama years but should Democrats take control again, I fully expect the war machine to ramp up fast. It's how they will address unemployment.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday August 16 2020, @02:38AM
They seem to be building up a China/US conflict, but that would be far more devastating to both economies than COVID-anything.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @06:52AM
Look where general peace has got us - people thinking how they will change their gender today and media trying to tell us that is normal, people afraid of going in public because they could catch a bug, teachers want to collect their full salaries while only phoning it in for the kids, vain reflections on computers controlling a large part of the supposed value of our economy. War is horrible, but peace has made us soft and rotten.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 14 2020, @08:47PM (3 children)
A lot of states run their own version of the EPA which you're allowed to do so long as it meets the terms as the Environmental Protection Act* at a minimum.
Oregon is one of those states. While they've probably lost some federal funding they're not as completely ratfucked as the EPA is with a bunch of anti-environmentalists actively destroying things.
*the Environmental Protection Act is what gives the Environmental Protection Agency it's power.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DannyB on Friday August 14 2020, @09:06PM (1 child)
Trump stuffed every government agency with someone who would do exactly the OPPOSITE of what the mission of that agency is.
EPA, check.
FCC, check.
Dept. of Education, check.
Etc.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Saturday August 15 2020, @04:12PM
Because... his (stated) mission is to eliminate government. Since he can't do that, he'll make it as ineffective as possible. Then, while everybody is being outraged about his overreaches of power, he can get on with the real business at hand: graft and corruption.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @10:43PM
not yet. FCC succeeding recently in court to keep local laws from interfering with new cell phone cells is probably going to be seen by the current regime as justification for the US EPA regs from not being superceded by local regs in the next couple of months.
Trump pathologically still wants to really stick it to California (EPA vs CARB).
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday August 15 2020, @04:16PM
> leans Democratic. Thus they might actually believe in regulations.
LOL a pity for your theorem that Facebook is very dem itself.
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