More Project Kelvin stories and hilarities.

I nearly choked on my ham sandwich....

You'd think that after all the uproar, politicising and general tomfoolery that surrounded the Derry press offices and political folk in the Foyle region; once you get your own way you back off and silenty enjoy your win. No.

The Sentinel today basically brought to light that the whole thing is a storm in a teacup with two wonderful stories.

A BEWILDERED Hibernia Atlantic representative struggled to get his head around the uproar surrounding the divisive location of the Project Kelvin telehouse - an unmanned portable container - during a lengthy public row over the facility in February.

There's quite a few of us who are still struggling. Telehouse is a shed, portacabin.... unmanned. I've said this over quite a few blog posts and once again it's come up in the headlines. The whole thing is obviously becoming a bit of a laugh back in the States.

Not just one story, oh no! Two... The main snippet of interest is here though:
"We cannot bring a cable into Lough Foyle, because the border line under the sea there is actually disputed. We will not get into that level of consultation and negotiation to try to solve that issue, so we chose Portrush," Mr Bullock told the Committee.
The Hibernia chief was asked if the original Project Kelvin specification envisaged that the firm would tap into the transatlantic line and bring it down Lough Foyle into Londonderry.
He replied: "That is technically impossible. Lough Foyle is a disputed border region, and, as I said, we cannot put submarine cables near disputed border regions."
However, it seems that even if agreement was reached by Dublin and London and the Irish Government abandoned all thoughts of a "water grab" in Lough Foyle, it still would not be feasible to run the cable up the river to a telehouse.
"That would presume that all the land borders were agreed, that all environmental parties agreed to the laying of the cable, and that all ships agreed to stop dredging in Lough Foyle, which given that dredging at the mouth of the Foyle is necessary to remove the silt would not happen, and a cable would go out of service every three days," Mr Bullock told the committee.

Foyle and it's border problem seem to be what originally swayed Hibernia to go to Portrush (and Barry's is there obviously). Essentially it still doesn't really matter where the line comes in, Hibernia are trying to do it efficiently as possible to just get on with the job.

It's just fun watching the Derry press make a huge 60ft molehill of a story out of very little.

Nothing to see here, can we all move on now.