# Keystone pipeline shut after 14,000-barrel oil spill in Kansas

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/keystone-pipeline-shut-after-14000-barrel-oil-spill-in-kansas/
- Published: 2022-12-10T09:15:12-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: View of the site where the Keystone pipeline crosses U.S. Route 36 just east of Washington, Kansas, U.S., December 8, 2022 in this image taken from social media. Photo credit: Fred Knapp / Nebraska Public Media News via Reuters. Article by Brijesh Patel, Rod Nickel and Nia Williams. Reuters – updated December 9, 2022. Dec 8 (Reuters) – Canada’s TC Energy shut its Keystone pipeline in the United States after more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into a creek in Kansas, making it one of the largest crude spills in the United States in nearly a decade. The cause of the leak, which occurred in Kansas about 20 miles (32 km) south of a key junction in Steele City, Nebraska, is unknown. It is the third spill of several thousand barrels of crude on the pipeline since it first opened in 2010. […] Click here to view original web page at www.reuters.com