Gas theft is rampant in a number of countries that are not meaningfully part of the US war on drugs as they are not on shipping / growing routes.
While less critical than the injuries, there is often significant environmental impact in the cruder cases of pipeline theft. There also ends up being some pretty bad behavior by the private security / mercenaries hired to try and protect some of the infrastructure.
Clean goverment, effective law enforcement, pro-social behaviors and economic improvements etc all might reduce some of these issues.
