William Spurgeon, I met you on April 19, 2006 when I talked with David Sexton, President of Shell Oil Products US. and your Chief Regulatory and Compliance Attorney, Kathleen Gillmore. There can't be more than 3 Shell Oil Company Regional managers in the U.S. Therefore, you are a powerful man at Shell. You are also the person who was responsible for the GPR test done at Satish Chopra's Lincoln Shell station. You want me and the public to believe you are incapable of conducting a successful Ground Penetrating Radar ("GPR") test at a single Shell station in the United States? You give up that easily on every project that is your responsibility? The District Attorney Investigator told me "the test failed because it couldn't read through the concrete slab and rebar." If that is the case, whey didn't you run the test below the grade of the slab? Also, did you do a 3D test or 2D test? Did you do a structure test or utility test? Did your tester use the right antennae?
Picture left is the detail you should have gotten had you actually wanted to discover the truth. There are many ways to fail this test. In that it should not be an IQ test for a man of your experience and stature in the company, it would appear the test you did was engineered to fail (see
The Right Test). In that you have told the Riverside District Attorney's Office that you will remediate any car hoists or garage sump at that location, I ask you openly, here in front of everyone, to do any definitive test that will tell us what is there or not there or explain why you cannot find what I have repeatedly offered to find for Shell for free. If the test fails you fail, unless you are maliciously trying to hide the truth of what is buried at that location. You were included in the phone meeting with David Sexton because you are the one responsible for finding or not finding two huge car hoists and a big garage sump. You really expect everyone to believe you can't do the job of finding items that large in the dirt? I can find it in one day, if you let me, and I was just a Marketing Representative for a few years (see
Proving the Truth). That your GPR test failed means nothing other than the fact that Shell did the wrong test. You need to do a real and definitive test unless you are willfully and maliciously trying to protect Shell form having to clean up some number of the 13,000 Texaco stations (see
Problem Defined). Any "plausible deniability" Shell thought it had from you engineering a bad test ended with the
SeeitReal.com website.
I openly allege, by engineering a failed GPR test in order to hide a criminal act and not clean up a future source of pollution, William Spurgeon is in direct violation of Shell's "
Code of Conduct"
and is should be subject to severe sanctions from Shell. That is of course if Shell Oil is really interested in the truth and the good conduct of its upper management...
Contact Info: William Spurgeon, Western Regional Manager, Shell Oil Company, 1 Shell Plaza, 910 Louisiana St., Houston, TX 77002,
PH: (713) 241-6161,
FX: (713) 241-4044, Email: william.spurgeon@shell.com
Kathleen Gillmore, Senior Counsel, Legal - Regulatory & Compliance, Shell Oil Company
This whole thing started when Kathleen Gillmore in Shell's Legal Department thought she could ignore my request for Shell to clean up the Corona stations. That Shell continued to try and ignore cleaning up that location for the past year has gotten us to this point. I couldn't figure out why you wouldn't clean up one little station until I realized Shell was quietly selling all its service stations and couldn't acknowledge the Texaco problem without jeopardizing that mass sell off. If you would have handled this better at the beginning we wouldn't have gotten to this point, but I realize it was all or nothing as Shell didn't want anything to interfere with its dumping of its environmental responsibilities at all its retail locations in the United States due to persistent and anticipated "UST" failures and the prospect of "when Shell gets fined it pays millions, when retailers get fined they pay thousands." I admire the strategy to move to open dealers and dump the franchise retail system. It just isn't good for environmental policy in the United States. More importantly, Shell is doing it in "bad faith" by not making the proper disclosures and blantantly trying to avoid cleaning up the Texaco stations. Shell is at the point now that if you do not do a proper definitive test at Satish Chopra's locations Shell's bad faith will be provable. It wouldn't serve Shell to continue to underestimate the impact this issue is going to have on Shell's reputation. Continuing to tax the public's good will in this political climate is a mistake. Globally, Shell is beginning to pay the price (see Pattern of Avoidance). For any employee of Shell Oil at any level: By aiding and abetting the attempt to hide an environmental crime as a part of a greater attempt to hide an environmental problem with 13,000 former Texaco stations, by engineering a failed GPR test in order to subvert the interest of the Riverside District Attorney and the greater public good, is in violation of Shell's "General Business Principles" and Shell's "Code of Conduct." Shell's "Code of Conduct" dictates that Shell and its Legal Department demand that a definitive test be performed, and provide the test results to the relevant agencies. This website eliminates any doubt as to whether a definitive test can be performed (see The Right Test).
[Update: Kathleen Gillmore is the first casualty from this issue. She is no longer employed by Shell Oil] Contact Info: Shell Legal Department, P.O. Box 2463, Houston, TX 77252, PH: (713) 241-5649; FX: (713) 241-4081