Locals Respond to Cleanup Efforts of 500,000-Gallon Keystone Pipeline Oil Spill: ‘Never Been Through Something of This Magnitude’

Despite massive oil spill, Kansans praise company for ongoing cleanup and say accident was good for local economy

Active response to the Milepost 14 oil spill location in Washington County, Kansas, on Dec. 30, 2022. Courtesy of TC Energy

WASHINGTON, Kansas—Cleanup efforts in Kansas continued this week following one of the worst oil pipeline failures in state history.

Canada-based TC Energy says the company had recovered nearly 12,000 of the 14,000 barrels of crude that spilled on Dec. 7, 2022, from the Keystone Pipeline into Mill Creek in Washington County.