Facebook reportedly intends to leave 6,500 gallons of abandoned drilling fluid and tools buried off the Oregon coast, but the state is giving the company 180 days to remove it

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• Facebook experienced a drilling accident in late April off the Oregon coast that left tools, equipment, and 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid beneath the seafloor, according to a report from Oregon Live.
• The company reportedly has no plans to retrieve the equipment, but the Oregon Department of State Lands has given Facebook 180 days to remove it before it potentially issues fines or legal action.
• Residents have been skeptical of Facebook's fiber-optic cable project from the get-go, but the ground still broke on the endeavor in January. 
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Facebook reportedly intends to leave drilling equipment and thousands of gallons of drilling fluid buried beneath the seafloor off the coast of Oregon, per a report from Oregon Live's Kale Williams.

Facebook paid almost $500,000 for an Oregon beachfront lot to serve as the eastern end of an 8,500-mile fiber-optic cable. Edge Cable Holdings, a subsidiary of Facebook, was put in charge of the project and began in January, according to the outlet.

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