Oil spill in rural Kansas creek shuts down Keystone pipeline

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JOHN HANNA, HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, and JOSH FUNK today

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An oil spill in a creek in northeastern Kansas shut down a major pipeline that carries oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast, briefly causing oil prices to rise Thursday.

Canada-based TC Energy said it shut down its Keystone system Wednesday night following a drop in pipeline pressure. It said oil spilled into a creek in Washington County, Kansas, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northwest of Kansas City.

The company on Thursday estimated the spill’s size at about 14,000 barrels and said the affected pipeline segment had been “isolated” and the oil contained at the site with booms, or barriers. It did not say how the spill occurred.

“People are sometimes not aware of of the havoc that these things can wreak until the disaster happens,” said Zack Pistora, who lobbies the Kansas Legislature for the Sierra Club’s state chapter.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/oil-spills-business-texas-canada-kansas-34d8391337583fc242407141d24d66c2

[Bayard]

1. K&R

[peppertree]

2. Q: "Hell's bells. Who could've POSSIBLY seen this coming?"

A: Just about every Democrat.

[Stuckinthebush]

3. Took the words right out of my mind

I thought, "well tie me to a fence post and paint me surprised."

[Rebl2]

5. YEP!

[The Grand Illuminist]

11. They made their bed at the ballot box....

Let them lie in it.

[70sEraVet]

4. Estimated 14,000 barrels? How many times have those initial estimates quadrupled??

[bluestarone]

7. YEP.

I'm thinking it will be 80,000 by the time they get the right number!

[Rebl2]

19. It's up

to 590,000 gallons according to a local news station.

[EX500rider]

20. 14,000 barrels is 588,000 gals. Nt

[Rebl2]

21. Okay

[Alexander Of Assyria]

24. Estimated by the oil company! Estimated by me to be b.s.! And AP leads with oil price concern??

Not environmental.

AP is no friend of non-corporation people, people people are an afterthought.

The environment is a Collins worthy concern

[Rebl2]

6. Wonder what

that creek feeds into, if anything.

[hatrack]

13. Little Blue - Big Blue - Tuttle Creek Reservoir (north of Manhattan)

.

[Rebl2]

14. Does it affect

drinking water? I had heard on local news, I think, in KCMO it doesn’t, but hard to believe it won’t.

[hatrack]

22. Hard to say - depending on the effectiveness of the cleanup . .

Still part of the Kansas/Missouri River watershed.

[Ponietz]

8. Frack!

[edhopper]

9. But it's footprint

is only 25 sq feet, or some other bullshit they tried to sell.

[gibraltar72]

10. See Kalamazoo River!!

[Bengus81]

12. Some updated quotes from the Wichita Eagle which has a paywall........

"At an estimated 14,000 barrels, it is larger than all the pipeline’s previous spills combined, according to a report on the pipeline’s previous spills from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The pipeline became operational in 2010. Since then, it has experienced 23 spills— ten of which have occurred in Kansas or Missouri."


"The spilled amount is equivalent to around 558,000 gallons— enough to fill around 43 ½ standard swimming pools."

[angrychair]

15. Amazing

The very thing we all warned about has now happened despite all the assurance that it wouldn't happen.

[IronLionZion]

16. They should build the Keystone XL right over the Ogallala aquifer

since no one could have foreseen this happening

[slightlv]

17. Well, this is crap..

and you're right, every Democrat out here screamed bloody murder against this pipeline!

As one who has Mill Creek flood an area of the city for years, I have to wonder (and assume) we're talking about the same body of water that flows across the street from my house. Color me NOT HAPPY. (and I woke up on the wrong side of the bed before coming to DU to boot!)

[ruet]

18. """People are sometimes not aware of of the havoc that these things can wreak...

until the disaster happens,” said Zack Pistora, who lobbies the Kansas Legislature for the Sierra Club’s state chapter."

GTFOH.

[Emile]

23. I thought we stopped this pipeline and their permit was revoked.