Kansas oil spill is biggest breach in Keystone pipeline history
Emergency crews in Kansas are preparing to labor through the weekend to clean up the largest US crude oil spill in nearly a decade, after a mysterious rupture in the Keystone pipeline.
The pipeline that runs from Canada to Oklahoma lost about 14,000 barrels, or 588,000 gallons, in a spill larger than all prior breaches of the Keystone system combined, officials said Friday.
The spill sent oil gushing into a creek running through rural pastureland in Washington County, Kansas, about 150 miles northwest of Kansas City.
A heavy odor of oil hung in the air as tractor trailers ferried generators, lighting and ground mats to a muddy site for the cleanup operation.
Federal investigators were at the scene trying to help determine what caused a leak in the Keystone, which carries 622,000 barrels of oil per day from Western Canada to US refineries and export hubs.
Sabotage!
…hmmm…same subversives that blew up the North Sea pipeline?