Keystone oil pipeline shut down after leak of 9,000 barrels
The controversial pipeline spill is 457m long by 4.5m wide, with TC Energy declaring force majeure on the pipeline system after the shutdown
Calgary — The Keystone crude pipeline was shut down on Wednesday after leaking thousands of barrels of crude in North Dakota, the third spill along the pipeline’s route in less than three years.
TC Energy’s 590,000 barrel per day (bpd) pipeline that carries crude from Alberta to refineries in the US Midwest and Gulf Coast ruptured on October 29 and caused a spill near the city of Edinburg in North Dakota, Brent Nelson, an emergency manager for Walsh County, said by phone. About 9,120 barrels were released, some of which impacted a wetland, according to the North Dakota department of environmental quality...
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