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Keystone Pipeline Breach Spills Oil in North Dakota

HeadlineOct 31, 2019

In North Dakota, a breach in the Keystone pipeline Wednesday flooded a rural wetland with crude oil from Canada’s tar sands. Walsh County Emergency Management distributed photos of the massive spill, which it said was over a quarter-mile long and 15 feet wide. The agency said the pipeline’s operator TC Energy — formerly known as TransCanada — had yet to fix the leak by late Wednesday and that an unknown quantity of oil had leaked.

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