This country is crisscrossed with oil pipelines that have been in the ground for decades including South Dakota the habitat of the burying beetles. Guess what... the little critters are not extinct despite no precautions being taken to protect them from the pipelines for all these years. I remember the same environmental idiocy about how the Alaska pipeline was going to turn the state into an oil soaked moonscape and kill all the caribou. Forty years later nothing of the kind has happened and there are enough caribou to allow Sarah Palin to hunt them.
From what I’ve read, some exposed sections of the Alaskan Pipeline act like something of a radiator and warm the air around it, where the caribou actually gather.