Keystone pipeline raises concerns after third major spill in five years

"Waterways and land should not be put at risk so Canada and big oil can get their product to market," said Jane Kleeb, founder and president of Nebraska non-profit Bold Alliance, which helps communities fight fossil fuel projects. Kleeb is also the chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party. "It's a tremendous burden that pipeline companies put on landowners. They not only take their land through eminent domain for the pipeline company's private gain, they also take an [access] easement forever." 

Kleeb argued these spills demonstrate how unfair the relationship between pipeline corporations and landowners. She also pointed to how the Keystone pipeline was labeled the 'safest pipeline ever built' during the push for approval for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The latter was a proposed extension to the Keystone pipeline that was eventually scrapped: its permits were initially revoked by the Obama administration, reinstated by the Trump administration and then canceled by the Biden administration...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/21/oil-spills-keystone-pipeline-seem-worse-kansas