The Keystone pipeline is back in business while the Kansas oil spill cleanup continues

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."The oil cleanup continues. In its most recent update on the cleanup, the company said it had recovered about 7,600 barrels. It estimates that about 14,000 barrels (about 590,000 gallons) spilled.
The stuff that gushed out across several acres of farmland and into Mill Creek wasn’t conventional crude oil. It was diluted bitumen, also known as dilbit, and this poses extra challenges for environmental cleanup.

Normal methods for cleaning oil spills in water rely on the fact that the oil floats. But dilbit sinks — a process that can start within days and makes tracking the stuff tricky.

A National Academies of Sciences study found “there are no proven techniques for containment” of dilbit that has begun sinking in moving water.

TC Energy has said the oil spill is contained — with emergency dams and booms — to about four miles of Mill Creek, but Kansas environmental officials say benzene and other chemicals from the spill have shown up farther downstream.

The chemicals won’t affect public drinking water, the state says, because they will become too diluted by river water before reaching areas that supply drinking water. However, the state says the chemicals pose a risk to wildlife that consume them through the food chain."

The northern link of the Keystone XL pipeline would have been built by early next year had President Biden not canceled it on purpose on his first day of office. It's sad we have oil spills but overall, sending it by pipeline is way safer than sending it by train. If you don't believe me, look at the city that was destroyed from a runaway oil train. We wouldn't have to bake Venezuela but President Biden is in the Twilight zone. He rewards his enemies and punishes entrepreneurship in the usa.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lac-megantic-rail-disaster