Celia Llopis-Jepsen Kansas News Service
February 9, 2023
Canadian oil company TC Energy said [in early February] that faulty welding caused an “instantaneous rupture” in its Keystone pipeline that gushed hundreds of thousands of gallons of extra sticky tar sands crude oil onto Kansas native prairie, cropland and into a creek.
Meanwhile, the pipeline operator now estimates less oil escaped than o r i …