Posted on Feb 11, 2023
After Keystone oil spill, Kansas Democrats want to cancel tax exemptions when pipelines leak
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The Keystone is Washington County's biggest source of property taxes for schools and other local government, but the company didn't pay for 10 years.
After the Keystone spilled more than half a million gallons of crude oil onto native prairie and cropland and into a creek, some Kansas lawmakers want oil companies to forfeit their tax exemptions when pipelines burst.
Right now, energy companies that lay pipelines in Kansas get to skip out on the first 10 years of paying taxes to school districts, county governments and other local units of government along their routes.
A group of 21 Democratic state lawmakers want to tweak Kansas law so that the exemption ends immediately if a pipeline carrying substances such as oil or natural gas spills or leaks within those 10 years.
After the Keystone spilled more than half a million gallons of crude oil onto native prairie and cropland and into a creek, some Kansas lawmakers want oil companies to forfeit their tax exemptions when pipelines burst.
Right now, energy companies that lay pipelines in Kansas get to skip out on the first 10 years of paying taxes to school districts, county governments and other local units of government along their routes.
A group of 21 Democratic state lawmakers want to tweak Kansas law so that the exemption ends immediately if a pipeline carrying substances such as oil or natural gas spills or leaks within those 10 years.
After Keystone oil spill, Kansas Democrats want to cancel tax exemptions when pipelines leak
Posted from kcur.org
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Oil and Energy
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Canada
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."TC Energy said this week that bad welding and other problems contributed to the Keystone’s largest spill ever when the pipeline burst Dec. 7 in Washington County.
The company is under a federal order to continue analyzing what happened and whether other sections of the north-south stretch of pipe through Kansas are similarly vulnerable.
The Pannbacker family in Washington County, whose farm was left partly covered in crude oil from the spill, has expressed frustration that the federal government allowed TC Energy to resume pumping oil through the segment in late December, even as the investigation into what went wrong continues."...
..."TC Energy said this week that bad welding and other problems contributed to the Keystone’s largest spill ever when the pipeline burst Dec. 7 in Washington County.
The company is under a federal order to continue analyzing what happened and whether other sections of the north-south stretch of pipe through Kansas are similarly vulnerable.
The Pannbacker family in Washington County, whose farm was left partly covered in crude oil from the spill, has expressed frustration that the federal government allowed TC Energy to resume pumping oil through the segment in late December, even as the investigation into what went wrong continues."...
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