Emergency crews in Kansas are preparing to labor through the weekend to clean up the largest US crude oil spill in nearly a decade, after a mysterious rupture in the Keystone pipeline
Emergency crews in
Kansas are preparing to labor through the weekend to clean up
the largest US crude oil spill in nearly a decade, after a mysterious rupture in the Keystone pipeline.
The pipeline that runs from
Canada to
Oklahoma lost about 14,000 barrels, or 588,000 gallons, in a spill larger than all prior breaches of the Keystone system combined, officials said Friday.
The spill sent oil gushing into a creek running through rural pastureland in Washington County, Kansas, about 150 miles northwest of Kansas City.
A heavy odor of oil hung in the air as tractor trailers ferried generators, lighting and ground mats to a muddy site for the cleanup operation.
Federal investigators were at the scene trying to help determine what caused a leak in the Keystone, which carries 622,000 barrels of oil per day from Western Canada to US refineries and export hubs.
Comment: Whilst oil spills aren't unheard of, and America's infrastructure
is in terrible shape, considering the current energy crisis, and the professed concern for the environment, one would think that the pipeline would have been a focus for due diligence.
However, taken together with the looming food shortages, the highly suspect food processing plant fires and the concerted efforts to put farmers out of business, in addition to a number of other energy supply related disasters, as well as the more obvious sabotage (Nord Stream), there's good reason to be suspicious about this leak.
The following selection of incidents are just from the last 6 months:
Comment: With winter coming and the training of Russia's troops nearing completion, a reckoning is coming for Ukraine's neo-Nazi's - as well as the energy desperate West without whom they would have caved already: SECOND Russian shopping mall is mysteriously destroyed by fire, raising suspicions of sabotage attacks