She says what's happening in Tierra del Mar affects every inch of Oregon's coastline and beyond. (Alex Wittwer)Ĭameron La Follette, director of the Oregon Coast Alliance, an environmental advocacy group, says it's anything but a NIMBY dispute. UNHAPPY NEIGHBOR: Marie Cook (below) now looks at Facebook’s fence, which is adjacent to her backyard. 'And yet they come here and put this thing that has no benefit for our community right in the middle of a residential neighborhood. 'There are 365 miles of coastline in Oregon,' Cook says. A forbidding security fence topped with noise curtains replaced the scrub pine and thick vegetation on the lot.Īfter interviews with residents and public officials and a review of a vast sheaf of public records, a picture emerges of a huge and powerful company that snuck onto the Oregon Coast, bullied neighbors, abused the state's iconic coastline, and covered up its sins, all in the service of expanding its wildly profitable quasi-monopoly on social media.

In the past two years, over the opposition of Tierra del Mar residents, a Facebook subsidiary, Edge Cable Holdings, bought an oceanfront lot from former NFL and Oregon Ducks quarterback Joey Harrington and have converted the lot into a vibrating, cacophonous industrial site, clouded with diesel fumes, the roar of a drilling rig and the rumble of heavy trucks. He shop space with a bodega cat named “Mama Cat.” (Alex Wittwer)Ĭook and her neighbors have since become experts on the fiber-optic cable that crosses the Pacific seabed like high-tech Silly String. King owns several sunstone mines in Oregon. Lee King, a long-time resident and owner of the only shop in Tierra del Mar-a store that sells Oregon sunstones. They were laying the groundwork for a connection between Asia and Facebook's vast server farms in Hillsboro and Prineville. I didn't know what they were talking about.' 'They said they were working on a cable project. I said, 'What are you doing here?'' Cook recalls. 'These surveyors were walking in my yard.

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