Mary Sanchez: Keeping more than just a bird’s eye view on the Keystone oil spill in Kansas
Viewed from above, a spot in northeast Kansas appears as if God took a can of black spray paint and graffitied the gently rolling landscape. The weight of it causes the oil to sink, rather than floating on top of the water of nearby Mill Creek. Executives of the Canadian company responsible— TC Energy— briefly prohibited aerial views of the spill from drones.
Viewed from above, a spot in northeast Kansas appears as if God took a can of black spray paint and graffitied the gently rolling landscape.
Grasses and a creek bed that normally would be wintery gray and brown have turned coal black. It’s spilled oil.
Not the type that spews up from the ground in Hollywood depictions of someone striking it rich, their oil rig jettisoning black liquid like a fountain.
No, the oil involved in the largest spill
