Shell vs.The Environment & The Public Trust

The Public has a Right to the Truth - Officials have a Duty to Act
Home
Problem Defined
Recent Settlements
Pattern of Avoidance
Voluntary Compliance
The Players
The Solution
About Us
Press Relations
Write to Congress
$25,000 Reward
Resources & Links
Contact Information
SeeitReal.com (Best viewed in MS Explorer)
"If the public exercises its right to the truth, justice can follow" *
 

* Secretly selling off of all its service stations in America in mass, to avoid high fines over its flawed and failing underground storage tank containment systems, is the largest shedding of environmental responsibility by a single corporation in the history of the United States (see Recent Settlements).

* Shell is maliciously evading an environmental issue with 13,000 former Texaco stations and sold those stations in its mass sell off to avoid having to clean them up (see District Attorney).
There is very little justice or even interest in the discovery of the truth these days. Budgets are slim. Agencies are less able and willing to fulfill their public mandates (see Voluntary Compliance). Regulators and their lawyers go to work for the very companies they regulate. Collusion and "willful blindness" abound when powerful corporations need favors. Many of our public officials are simply "indifferent to the truth." That appears to be the case with Shell Oil Company and an environmental issue effecting the 13,000 Texaco stations Shell purchased. Accordingly, SeeitReal.com is dedicated to informing the public of Shell's "bad faith" efforts to avoid environmental responsibility of not only its Texaco purchase, but from all of its Shell service stations nationwide; and the public officials aiding in those efforts. The public needs "truth without compromise." That is what SeeitReal.com brings to you. To that end, SeeitReal.com alleges that Shell secretly dumping all its stations and abandoning its franchise operations as a means to shed environmental liability and not cleaning up the Texaco stations, amounts to the greatest shedding of environmental responsibility by any corporation in the history of the United States and follows a "pattern of malicious avoidance" and "bad faith" that begins at the highest levels of Shell Management (see Shell Oil Company and More Shell Players). What follows is the investigative story that uncovered the truth about Shell's "pattern of malicious avoidance of its environmental responsibility..."

 

The Local Problem
In November 2005 I contacted Shell and explained as an ex-Texaco employee I had inside knowledge of the fact that when Texaco allowed its retailers to convert their auto repair garages into foodmarts that environmental regulations were not only not met, but that many of the retailers maliciously and criminally ignored them. I pointed to a Shell service station owned by Satish Chopra located at Lincoln Avenue and the Riverside Freeway in Corona, California as a prime example. I informed Shell that I had "perfect knowledge" that that location had a garage sump left intact with toxic wastes and two hydraulic lifts with hydraulic fluid left in place. More importantly, this location is less than 33 yards from a clean water aquifer. Shell did absolutely nothing. I eventually found out why...in an open fraud against the public trust, Shell does not want to spend the money to test and remediate known environmental problems at some number of 13,000 former Texaco stations. That would have interfered with Shell's clandestine mass sell off of all its retail gasoline stations in the U.S., in order to completely end all retail motor fuel environmental liability in America... 
 
*Impotant Notice: Every thing on, in or provided by 
SeeitReal.com is subject to "The Disclaimer." 
The National Problem

I was informed by a Los Angeles EPA agent that the EPA had an active investigation over Shell's gasoline containment failures. Shell's containment failures have been remarkably high. This is the primary reason Shell is selling its stations in mass before Shell has to fix further failures, replace the entire system and pay 10's of millions of dollars more in fines [see Recent Settlements]. The "fraud" involves not only not telling owners of former Texaco stations that they may have an undisclosed environmental problem, but also not making "full disclosure" to all their Shell retailers of the "predictive certainty" of "UST" gasoline containment failures that the author believes Shell is well aware of. To add insult to injury, SeeitReal.com believes Shell openly attempted to defraud the Riverside District Attorney by doing a failed test and trying to pass it off as the only one that could be done (see The Right Test). Shell's $6.5 million and $10.5 million settlements for UST (underground storage tank) failures in Riverside and San Diego Counties is critical evidence for the major premise of this website: That Shell is actively dumping its retail environmental responsibilities in an attempt to not pay millions in fines or make repairs to a flawed and aging UST system. Shell calls it "released"  (released of any and all liability). (see Problem Defined)