TOPEKA, Kan. — The operator of a pipeline that spilled about 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of heavy crude oil into a northeastern Kansas creek stated Friday that it has consent from U.S. federalgovernment regulators to resume the fixed sector where the rupture tookplace.
Canada-based TC Energy did not state precisely when it would resume the area of its Keystone pipeline system from Steele City near the Nebraska-Kansas border to Cushing in northern Oklahoma. The business stated it will have teams working through the Christmas vacation and likewise performing “rigorous screening and examinations.”
“This will take anumberof days,” the business stated in a declaration. “We will continue to focuson the security of individuals and the environment.”
The Dec. 7 spill required the business to shut down the Keystone system and discarded about 14,000 barrels of crude into a creek running through rural pastureland in Washington County, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northwest of Kansas City. Each barrel is 42 gallons, the size of a home tub.
The business and federalgovernment authorities have stated drinking water materials were not impacted, and no one was left. However, Kansas City’s KCUR-FM reported this week that the Kansas Department of Health and Environment discovered chemicals from the spill downstream previous 2 earthen dams c