TOPEKA — Operators of the Keystone Pipeline agreed to pay Kansas $3 million for remediation projects and complete $40 million in work as part of a settlement from the 2022 spill that poured 13,000 barrels of oil into Mill Creek near Washington.
South Bow (USA) LP and South Bow Infrastructure Operations Inc., which own and operate the Keystone Pipeline, also agreed to pay more than $26.8 million as a civil penalty, according to a consent decree filed Friday.
The December 2022 rupture was one of the largest inland oil spills in recent history, and the $40 million will go…
