"edit: and I don't think anything is going on at the X site... I haven't seen any equipment there and my understanding as of two months ago was that site prep wasn't scheduled to start until March (I could be wrong). "
No I don't think you are - the drilling equipment is gone - must of being for some test bores (but why they used something as large as the equipment used for shoring the perimeters of pits is beyond me)