TransCanada CEO Russ Girling’s company has shut down its Keystone pipeline after crews spotted oil near a pump station in South Dakota.
Alberta-based TransCanada Corp has shut down its Keystone pipeline after crews spotted oil near a pump station in South Dakota, the company said in a statement on Monday.
The company, Canada’s second largest pipeline operator, said the “potential incident” was first reported on Saturday afternoon.
“TransCanada immediately began the process to shut down the pipeline, activate its emergency response procedures and dispatch ground crews to assess the situation,” said the company in a statement. “Crews initially found visible signs of oil on a small surface area.”
News of the oil seeping to the surface could be inconvenient for TransCanada, which is now trying to convince communities across Canada to accept its proposal for a gigantic new pipeline infrastructure project — the 4,600-kilometre Energy East pipeline.
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