History sucks if you are an environmental extremist.

Also animals are known to cozy up to on land pipelines for warmth during cold/Winter seasons. . .and birds don't killed by unknowingly slamming into pipelines like they do windmills and the organs of small rodent type animals don't pop like they do with WIndmills when they get too close.

I saved a lot of elk while tending natural gas wells in the Rockies. We often got 4 foot plus snowfalls early winter when the herds were still at higher elevations. If they made it to the roads I packed with a snowcat they got to lower elevations and survived. If not, they stayed where they collapsed and fed scavengers.

Good for you.(I believe in nature conservation.)

Wildlife is very adaptable or they would have gone extinct. Everyone I worked with in the oil and gas industry was serious about protecting the environment, clowns from the US Forest Service, not so much. They had personal agendas and power to back it up. BLM guys were professional. I've told environmental sciences grads, if they wanted to seriously work to protect the environment, hire on to an oil and gas company or a coal company. They have the money and the determination to do things better.
Not trying to brag, but in 35 years of management. I had no environmental infractions on my watch. That was just my job, and I had great people to help do it.