Shell vs.The Environment & The Public Trust

If IST Laboratory cannot find the buried equipment at Satish Chopra's Lincoln Avenue Shell station, I will close this website and withdraw any and all allegations against Shell Oil Company. That said, I believe Shell Oil purposefully did a GPR "Structure Scan" that is meant to only scan 18 inches deep. What they should have done was a "Utility Scan" that can look 6 meters deep (go to here to understand the difference). Even the shallow "Structure Scan" should have shown where the hydraulic lifts were removed (see The Right Test). Shell purposefully engineered a failed test in a malicious attempt to cover up the pollution problems, not only in Corona but at some number of 13,000 stations nation wide.

In any event, if the test, whatever that test was, couldn't find the buried equipment "because of concrete thickness and rebar," that is a "failed test" and not the "definitive test" it should be. It shouldn't be an IQ test for anyone that the test needs to be "definitve" given the fact that the equipment is less than 33 yards from an aquifer and given that Shell's incentive lies with not having to clean up some number of 13,000 former Texaco stations. A definitive test will find what it is there or not there. A good 3-D GPR test can be definitive if done properly with the right equipment.

Shell, the Water Board or the Riverside District Attorney should have no problem using IST as the laboratory is an accredited laboratory through CCRL and DSA. They are also a DBE with the MTA, and MWD. Go here to see for yourself: click here The picture left is what it looks like when you use the right antennae. Note the incredible detail. And Shell says they can't find the huge solid metal hydraulic lift or the hole in the rebar if it was missing? (For the whole test click here). Here's a sample of IST Lab's work: Click Here

 

Update August 29, 2007, Richard Soto, owner IST Labs, is convinced that the two tests conducted so far came up "inconclusive" because the snack gondolas were not moved when dong the GPR test, if they actually did a 3-D test using the right antennae, as they should have. If they were moved and the tests came up "inconclusive," then the test was not conducted properly, at least not as well as IST Labs can perform it. SeeitReal.com has offered both Shell the opportunity to do this test for free if the gondolas are moved and IST Labs can conduct the test as it should be in order to get the real 3-D picture shown right and above. That level of detail would most certainly show the car hoists still in the ground or show the the hole in the rebar, or a rebar patch, if the hoists were actually removed. Additionally, there is a technician that can conduct a test that shows whether or not buried hydraulic lines have fluid in them or not. This issue cannot go away until either a definitive test is performed or all tests that can be done come up inconclusive. 957 feet from a clean water aquifer dictates no less than this. IST has done work for Shell Oil in the past and should have a vendor number accordingly and is currently doing work for Chevron (go here).