Consultants: Design issues, operations lapses led to big Kansas oil spill

Consultants: Design issues, operations lapses led to big Kansas oil spill

By John Hanna and Josh Funk, Associated Press (May 16, 2023)

“But Bill Caram, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust watchdog group, said that with the history of problems along the Keystone pipeline, the public has plenty of reasons to doubt its safety. 

‘I would certainly like to see PHMSA come up with a plan to work with TC Energy to develop a plan so that the public can be ensured that TC Energy will be able to operate this pipeline safely going forward. I don’t think the public has that kind of trust in this pipeline right now,’ Caram said.”