Keystone Pipeline Leaks 14,000 Barrels of Oil in Kansas

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The Keystone Pipeline carries crude oil from Canada to Texas. Since it began operations in 2010, it has spilled more than 20 times, often small amounts. At 14,000 barrels, Wednesday's spill is larger than all its previous ones combined. EPA says oil was contained within three miles of the pipeline burst.

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Keystone Pipeline oil spill investigators search for cause of Kansas rupture

Officials worked over the weekend to mitigate the fallout from the Keystone Pipeline rupture that leaked about 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a Kansas creek.

4 months ago·United States

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Democracy Now!

Keystone Pipeline Ruptures in Kansas, Causing Its Worst-Ever Oil Spill

The Department of Transportation has launched an investigation in Kansas after a rupture in the Keystone pipeline caused a massive oil spill 160 miles north of Wichita. The pipeline’s operator, TC Energy — formerly known as TransCanada — estimated some 588,000 gallons of oil spilled into a natural waterway. That’s nearly enough to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. It’s the largest U.S. crude oil spill in nearly a decade, and the worst in the …

4 months ago·New York, United States

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Smithsonian Mag

Keystone Pipeline Leaks 14,000 Barrels of Oil in Kansas

This is the largest onshore crude pipeline spill in nine years and the biggest in the system’s history

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Keystone Pipeline oil spill investigators search for cause of Kansas rupture

Federal and state environmental officials worked over the weekend to mitigate the fallout from last Wednesday's Keystone Pipeline rupture that leaked about 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a Kansas creek.

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Butler County Times Gazette

Regulators order Keystone Pipeline to investigate after 14,000 barrels spill in Kansas – Butler County Times-Gazette

By Allison Kite Kansas Reflector KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Federal regulators have ordered operators to temporarily shut down part of the Keystone Pipeline in northern Kansas after it spilled 14,000 barrels of crude oil. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued a corrective action order, its strictest enforcement, Thursday evening. It orders the pipeline’s operators to conduct an investigatio…

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Regulators order Keystone Pipeline to investigate after 14,000 barrels spill in Kansas

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Federal regulators have ordered operators to temporarily shut down part of the Keystone Pipeline in northern Kansas after it spilled 14,000 barrels of crude oil.

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