Facebook faces a backlash from environmentalists and Oregonians after the West Coast seabed deserts after a twist of fate involving a subcontractor that tended underwater fiber optic cables for the tech giant.
The Tillamook Headlight Herald and Oregon Live first reported the accident, in which a drilling pipe broke 50 feet under the seabed after the drill hit a rock and lodged in a perforated hole through Edge Cable Holdings.
Part of the apparatus was edited, however, 6,500 gallons of internal drilling fluid containers, a drill tip and at least 1,100 feet of pipe were left, and Facebook told Oregon Live that efforts on the apparatus can be more destructive to the environment than leaving it. There.
Facebook told The Hill in a message: “The assignment has been delayed due to cases that are not under our control, such as INTERRUPTIONs of COVID-19 and authorization of delays.”
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers He told Oregon Live that the company plans to drill a new gap when it resumes the structure early next year, the aircraft could remain there indefinitely, according to the report.
“Unfortunately, during the last days of structure in April this year, the horizontal drill pipe broke and the drill head fell and remains in place, about 50 feet below the seabed.
According to the statement, the company worked with experts in independent environments and decided that “there was no negative effect on the environment or public fitness of the drill head that remained on site.”
Oregon Rep. David Gomberg, who first supported the assignment and worked for local support, told the newspaper: “Facebook has been a hostile neighbor. These other people now have to worry about what’s been going on their beach for generations. .
Edge Cable Holdings will have to resolve a license violation with the Oregon Department of Land for the site as garage space, in violation of permits. Facebook also had 180 days to recover the device or pay a new permit to leave it there.
Facebook’s proposal to build an 8,500-mile fiber optic cable, stretching from Asia to the west coast of the United States as a component of a broader task to bring Internet connectivity to life, opposed the citizens of Tierra del Mar in Oregon, who opposed its construction from the outset. the local coast. However, the allocation was given to county and state commissioners and drilling began in early March, to the dismay of local citizens who complained about noise and damage to their homes.
Facebook leaves damaged drilling apparatus on Oregon coast seabed (Oregon Live)
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