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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

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Locals Respond to Cleanup Efforts of 500,000-Gallon Keystone Pipeline Oil Spill: ‘Never Been Through Something of This Magnitude’
Active response to the Milepost 14 oil spill location in Washington County, Kansas, on Dec. 30, 2022. Courtesy of TC Energy
Allan Stein
By Allan Stein
1/10/2023Updated: 1/11/2023
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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.

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Allan Stein is a national reporter for The Epoch Times based in Arizona.
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