And it's time for today explained where we break
down some of the biggest stories in the news,
how we got here,
where we go next.
Reuters reports,
TC energy has submitted its plan to fully restart the Keystone pipeline less
than two weeks after the largest onshore oil spill since at least 2013.
The concern now is
clean up efforts for more. Let's bring in the U. S. Member of our team.
Duarte, Geraldine. Oh Duarte tell us more
than a well what makes us so concerning is the type of oil that's built.
It's especially hard to clean up.
Mind you,
this is the keystones third major spill in the last five years
and the largest bill since the pipeline was completed in 2010.
So this pipeline, it runs 2600 miles.
It stretches from western Canada through the U. S. Right down to the gulf of Mexico.
The spill we're focusing on happened about two weeks ago in the middle of Kansas.
Now this was not your typical crude oil dumped in a creek type of scenario.
This pipeline is carrying something called diluted
item.
Now,
vitamin comes from tar sands, it's dense and it's heavy so
companies mix it with other lighter oils to help it move easily through pipelines.
But when diluted bitumen spills, the cleanup is so much more complicated
at first it's like any other spill,
the oil and the vitamin float on the top of the water.
But that changes very quickly as time passes,
the vitamin separates and sinks right now this oil is sinking into waterways into
farmland and it's going to look this bad for some time to come.
Now. The worst tar sands oil spill in the U. S.
History was three times larger,
42,000 barrels of diluted bitumen once
spilled into the Kalamazoo River tributary.
Now it's spread almost 40 miles down river.
It cost more than a billion dollars to clean up
and it took over four years. But getting back to Kansas,
the company could restart the pipeline even before its cleanup is done
so long as they get approval from the U. S. Regulators.
Such a complicated topic,
thank you so much for the report.