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New pipeline trenching and wellsite road building practices reduce Devon’s surface impacts
In the world's second-biggest country, you'd think a 15-metre swath of pipeline right-of-way or a 20-metre-wide wellsite access road wouldn't be a big deal. And over the course of the last half a century, maybe it wasn't.
But as Bob Dylan so eloquently put it, the times they are a-changin,' and with the wider adoption of low-till or no-till agricultural practices, farmers are less tolerant of sunken trenches (as unconsolidated dirt over a pipeline compacts over time). They also increasingly resent the inefficiency of having to work around freshly laid pipes, the lost productivity typically associated with pipeline right-of-ways in the first year and, at times, having to deal with other lingering topsoil issues.Please login to see the full article. Not a subscriber yet? Subscribe now!
