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 agri- cultural 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 associ- ated with pipeline right-of-ways in the first year and, at times having to deal with other lingering topsoil issues.
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