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South Bow Shares Findings of Root Cause Analysis of Milepost 171 Incident
CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- South Bow Corp. (TSX & NYSE: SOBO) (South Bow or the Company) and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) have received the independent third-party root cause analysis (RCA) of the incident that occurred at Milepost 171 (MP-171) of the Keystone Pipeline on April 8, 2025, near Fort Ransom, N.D. Root cause analysis findings According to the RCA, the characteristics of the MP-171 incident were unique. Both the pipe and w
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