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#BREAKING: Just minutes ago, the Keystone Pipeline blew a gasket near Fort Ransom, North Dakota—oil’s leaking and they’ve slammed the emergency brakes on the whole system. Locals heard a massive ‘bang’ around 7:44 a.m. local time near a pumping station south of town, and then crude started gushing from a 30-inch pipe. TC Energy flipped the kill switch in two minutes flat, and state enviro folks say it’s boxed in for now—no public health scare yet. Cleanup’s rolling, and they’re digging into what the hell happened.
This isn’t Keystone’s first rodeo—since 2010, it’s been a spill machine. Remember that monster in Kansas, December 2022? Over 14,000 barrels flooded Mill Creek ‘cause of a fatigue crack from a janky weld job back when they built it—stressed-out pipe finally gave up. No word yet if it’s déjà vu today or if something shadier’s up, especially with all the geopolitical heat and infrastructure threats lately. This thing hauls Canadian crude to the Gulf Coast, but it’s old, stressed, and keeps making a mess—people are pissed, and the safety debate’s back on blast!