Planning for Soil Conservation by the Oil and Gas Industry

The two types of industry disturbances that have effected most of the agricultural land are the construction of wellsites and the roads to these wellsites and the construction of pipelines. There are 140,000 well sites in Alberta and I estimate they have
disturbed roughly ((3 X 140,000/640) X 0.6) 400 square miles, or sections of agricultural land. The roads to these wellsites have disturbed an additional 100 sections of agricultural land.
There are 110,000 miles of pipeline in the province which have disturbed roughly (110,000 X 30/5280 X.6) 500 sections of land. Which gives a total area of roughly 1000 sections or 30 townships of agricultural land. To put it in perspective, this would be a strip of land 6 miles wide from Calgary to Edmonton.