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posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 14 2020, @06:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the drilling-what? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday August 15 2020, @06:05PM (7 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Saturday August 15 2020, @06:05PM (#1037172)

    No saint? Due process free execution by secret tribunals using secret law. No saint indeed. Fucking satan.

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2020, @06:56PM (#1037189)

    Take progress where you can get it, preferably demand progress at each election.

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @01:44AM (#1037308)

      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)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 16 2020, @01:20AM (#1037303) Journal

    Have we improved since?

    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

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 16 2020, @01:21AM (#1037304) Journal
      Well, I take back my concerns about your level of whataboutism given that AC started it first.
  • (Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Sunday August 16 2020, @02:04AM (2 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Sunday August 16 2020, @02:04AM (#1037323) Journal

    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

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday August 16 2020, @02:38AM (#1037335)

      I fully expect the war machine to ramp up fast. It's how they will address unemployment.

      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

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @06:52AM (#1037386)

      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.