This appears to be a case of no harm, no foul.<p>There is no environmental damage and no danger to the residents.<p>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.
This 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.
Where exactly are these 6500 gallons of drilling fluid and how would they have been retrieved if the project was succesfull?<p>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?
Is 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?
Just like Zuckerburgs trouncing on the rights of native Hawaiians, Facebook has shown a deep, callous disregard to the rights, needs, and concerns of everyone else.