A trip to the construction site shows just how much devastation building a pipeline can cause. The pipe itself is only a few feet in diameter, but each segment weighs over 5,000 kilogrammes, and the equipment needed to put it in place is massive. You can see it's good forest here. It's a real shame. A bulldozer drags off the heavier logs, while a huge mechanical claw grips a pile of foliage and dumps it onto the back of a truck to be. hauled away.
Dust is everywhere.
Now that it has been widened, one of the encroachers with land along it has brought in some earth-moving equipment. We first came here on Dec 7. By Dec 14, the road had been built. Then we set up camp. By Jan 6, people had already come here to mark out their land.