WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – Approaching four years since nearly 13,000 barrels of oil (about 543,000 gallons) leaked into a northern Kansas creek, the company deemed responsible for the disaster agreed to pay nearly $27 million for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act.
The U.S. Department of Justice identified South Bow (USA) LP and South Bow Infrastructure Operations Inc. as the owner and operator of the Keystone Pipeline and confirmed that the company also agreed to complete about $40 million in work to prevent future spills.
The hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil that spilled in rural Washington County on Dec. 7, 2022, leaked from a ruptured pipeline over land and into Mill Creek. This created “an imminent and substantial threat to human health and the environment,” the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) explained…