Keystone Pipeline spills 200,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota
The Keystone Pipeline leaked more than 200,000 gallons of oil Thursday morning in an agricultural area of northeastern South Dakota.
TransCanada, the company that operates the pipeline, said it shut down the pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta, to Cushing, Oklahoma, and to Wood River and Patoka in Illinois. They did not say what caused the leak or when the company expects to reopen the pipeline. A state official said the oil has not reached any bodies of water.
The last major leak on the Keystone Pipeline, which was rejected by the Obama administration and resuscitated by President Trump, was in April 2016, when 16,800 gallons of oil spilled in Hutchinson County, South Dakota. In a few days, officials in Nebraska are set to vote on whether to approve a 275-mile-long extension of the pipeline through the state, NBC News reports.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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