September 30, 2013 E-mail to Mr. James Maughan

September 30, 2013

Mr. James Maughan

Assistant Deputy Direct

Division of Financial Assistance

Phone: 916-341-5694

Email: jmaughan@waterboards.ca.gov

Mail address:  1001 I Street, 16th Floor

Sacramento, CA 95814

SUBJECT :  Continuing demand for the return of the original educational

                credentials as evaluated by ERES and comments why  a circle

                mark was wrap around  the word  "PHILIPPINES" as shown in

                the returned exact copy (photocopy) of my original educational

                credentials.

Dear Mr. James Maughan,

Now, after  I,  having exposed your machinations to avoid the return of my
 "original" educational credentials with your signature and signatures of
Ms. Anna Hernandez and Mr. Wes Wilkinson,  you, with all due respect,
had resorted to manipulate incredible alibis. Instead, of sending back to me
the "original" copy of my educational credentials, you send me photo copy of
the "original" and called  "exact" copy of what I have sent to your office. Then,
as a proof that you and Mr. Wes Wilkinson together with Ms. Anna Hernandez
had conscientiously evaluated that "original" educational credentials, hence,
I have demanded that  the three of you signed it, as the three of you had
determined that it could not merit the minimum 6 educational point requirement
for  operator certification examination, but to avoid personal accountability,
you just place the stamp of the Office of Operator Certification. In addition,
instead of placing your signatures on that "original" educational credentials
as a matter of appropriate annotation, you have made a discriminatory circular
mark wrap around the word "PHILIPPINES". Wrapping the word "PHILIPPINES"
with a circle as a reason for annotation is untenable in the light of my painful
experience dealing with your office and employees.

May I reiterate in unequivocal terms that I  have sent the "original" copy of my
educational credentials covering the Bachelor of Science in Management
Engineering as evaluated by ERES. Sacramento, CA, together with my
application for operator certification and the check payment of $95. This set
of application documents was received by Ms. Debbie Zuccala. Hence, may
I most respectfully remind you that your statement on your e-mail below, to wit:

" If this document was not the "original" then the only thing I can conclude is
 that you never  sent the "original" to us but a copy." ,  is outrageous, baseless 
and irresponsible. As a matter of fact, Ms Debbie Zuccala had not denied the 
existence of the "original" ERES  educational credentials since 
September 6, 2012 up to the present times .Ms Christine Gordon,  
Mr. Wes Wilkinson and Ms Anna Hernandez, all did not deny the existence 
of  the "original" copy of my educational credentials as evaluated by ERES. 
Therefore, you can not belatedly claim otherwise,  during these times, after you
been caught  cheating and lying about it.

My prayers remain, please send me back the " original" copy of my 
educational credentials covering the Bachelor of Science in Management
Engineering as  evaluated by ERES, Sacramento, Ca with signatures of  
Ms  Anna Hernandez, Mr. Wes Wilkinson and yours as a proof that the three 
of you have conscientiously  and prudently determined that it could not meet
the minimum 6 educational points requirement for Grade 1 operator 
certification examination.

Thank you very much.

Cordially,

Antonio L. Buensuceso Jr.

REFERENCE E-MAIL

Maughan, James@Waterboards                                                     Sep 23 (7 days ago)
to me, shellresearchw.

Mr. Buensuceso,

I do recognize and acknowledge that you have made the same request several times. This request concerns us returning to you the original copy of your educational credentials.  We did return exactly what you sent us, and would point out that the document we sent you back has our original date and time stamp.  We place a date stamp on original documents that we receive in our office. 

If this document was not the "original" then the only thing I can conclude is that you never sent the "original" to us but a copy.

Concerning the word "PHILIPPINES" being circled on the document we sent back to you, this is done routinely to annotate pertinent information on documents that we review. We gladly accept education credits from many countries including the Philippines.  

Again to state we accepted the document in full faith but needed further clarifying information about specific classes taken in the course of you attaining your degree, so that we could give you the proper credit to take the exam. 

Again I am sorry if this is not clear but I have stated this information several times.

James Maughan

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The risk of sharing your ideas with Shell

Sep 26th, 2013

by John Donovan. 

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By John Donovan

Royal Dutch Shell is once again inviting people to share their ideas with the oil giant. (see article below)

I caution anyone contemplating doing so to be on their guard.

In my experience Shell has no respect for confidentiality or intellectual property rights.

I have successfully sued Shell many times for breach of confidence and breach of contract in respect of ideas I disclosed to the company in strictest confidence and Shell then used without giving me any credit or payment.

I know many other people who have had the same problems in having their ideas ripped off by Shell.

Hence the warning.

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Shell Oil’s Arctic drilling operations in limbo

Sep 26th, 2013

by John Donovan.

Shell Oil has not disclosed new safety measures since a critical federal report in March, and it has not applied to drill in the Arctic in 2014.

By Maria L. La Ganga: Sept 25, 2013

SEATTLE — Six months after federal officials chastised Shell Oil for its faulty offshore drilling operations in the Arctic, the company has yet to explain what safeguards it has put in place or when it plans to resume exploring for oil in the vulnerable region.

Shell’s 2012 return to offshore Arctic exploration after a generation away was marred by high-profile problems, including hefty fines for polluting the air and a drilling rig that ran aground. The company canceled its 2013 drilling season, and its 2014 operations are in question.

The Interior Department is scheduled to unveil a set of tightened safeguards for offshore Arctic drilling before the end of the year, regulations whose need is underscored by Shell’s difficulties.

FULL ARTICLE

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The famed Shell Scenarios crystal ball

Sep 22nd, 2013

by John Donovan. 

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By John Donovan

The famed Shell Scenarios crystal ball never revealed a world in which its so-called No.1 Enemy would be operating globally under the Royal Dutch Shell Plc top level domain name, dealing on Shell’s behalf with job applications, business proposals, Shell pension enquiries, complaints, invitations to speak at conferences, and even terrorist threats. This was a scenario apparently deemed too far beyond the realms of possibility to be contemplated, but it is nonetheless the incredible reality and has been for getting on to a decade.

How on earth did such a supposedly far-sighted management end up in such a humiliating situation, which has already cost the company billions of dollars?

The news media, who have described “the Donovan website” as being “An open wound for Shell“, are welcome to see the evidence substantiating everything stated above.

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PORK BARREL LIVE IN LUNETA

PORK BARREL LIVE IN LUNETA

Art as it has always been since time immemorial a venue of aspirations, convictions, beliefs and struggles of people to mold their destiny, to recreate the world in the manner best for humankind.  Art like music drives man into a feeling of euphoria, while dazing at the artwork, it makes him cry, it makes laugh, it emboldens him to face  insurmountable challenges and conquer the invincible. 

Art for this sake has been closer to me now than when I was. Now, I understand that art could be a platform to deliver my homeland from extreme poverty and economic inequity, where government coffer thieves are well organized, robbing their own people of means to enjoy a decent life. This is the cause,  I would want to express as I deliver my statement of purpose.


Today, the scandal of pork barrel scam where billions of people's tax money are siphoned out into private individuals interests through insidious manipulations of government fund disbursement procedures. The pork, flesh of a pig,  is loaded in the barrel, thus named as pork barrel, literally;  but due to the news of organized malversation of government monies, pandemonium of country folks against it, leaves an awakened and vigilant populace to despise it; hence, the pig which should have been pork had remained live on account of these expose. This is the concept of this project.
I gather pictures of pigs, barrels and familiar landscape from my home land and assembled them into photoshop. Shell,  since being a company involved in the Malampaya funds mess, the barrel with Shell emblem makes a perfect choice and Luneta, the Rizal Park is likewise outstanding landmark, and the pig is really greasy.

I would want to call that project as  PORK BARREL LIVE IN LUNETA, purposely intended as a message to my home folks to remain vigilant and keep the pig live and breathing.

Paintbrush, airbrush, eyedropper, eraser, marquee, lasso, move, magic wand, crop, and transform commands (flip, scale, rotate) were some tools I utilized together with the color palette, color picker and swatches palette and applied layer masking.

I believe this project is a successful one being contemporary and socially relevant.

Thank you very much.

Antonio L. Buensuceso Jr.


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Contaminated soil testing at Carousel tract in Carson confirms residents’ health and safety fears

Aug 18th, 2013

by John Donovan.

Until recently, Barbara Post struggled to get people to react with urgency to her claims that Shell Oil’s contamination of her Carson neighborhood caused her neighbor’s 132 tumors, her daughter’s flesh-eating disease and her deceased husband’s irregular heartbeat.

By Sandy Mazza, Staff Writer
sandy.mazza@dailybreeze.com l, @sandymazza on Twitter

Posted: 08/07/13, 8:27 PM PDT |

Until recently, Barbara Post struggled to get people to react with urgency to her claims that Shell Oil’s contamination of her Carson neighborhood caused her neighbor’s 132 tumors, her daughter’s flesh-eating disease and her deceased husband’s irregular heartbeat.

After all, state health officials have repeatedly said the extensive contamination found underneath the 50-acre Carousel tract does not pose an immediate threat to human health. Constant exposure to the air may result in a slightly increased cancer risk over dozens of years, experts said. But there was no apparent rush to get people out of the area when large deposits of waste oil were found there about five years ago.

The petroleum was left from a Shell Oil tank farm that operated on the site from the 1920s to 1966, when the Carousel tract was developed. When the tank farm was demolished, concrete oil reservoirs were crushed and left in the ground along with untold amounts of waste petroleum.

On Monday night, the Carson City Council is expected to approve a city resolution declaring a “condition of emergency within the Carousel tract requiring immediate and comprehensive action by appropriate state regulatory agencies and the attorney general.”

The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board is in charge of the cleanup, which the agency ordered Shell to do two years ago. Since the order, Shell has undergone extensive testing to uncover how much contamination exists and to develop a work plan to clean the soil to a depth of 10 feet. City officials and residents, however, want them to clean the soil to at least 40 feet below ground, because oil has been found as far down as the groundwater.

On July 16, the city officially joined Carousel tract residents in filing a complaint against Shell in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging the company created a public nuisance that causes injury. A report released last month by investigators working with Girardi and Keese, the law firm representing residents and the city in court, found dangerous levels of carcinogenic benzene and explosive methane close to homes.

“These dangerous conditions are spread widely across the site, and the degree of exposure to these chemicals is highly variable and extremely difficult to predict,” according to a report by environmental consulting firm L. Everett & Associates.

The report cites a flammable methane gas pocket found in the neighborhood with a concentration of 59.7 percent by volume, which far exceeds the “lower explosive limit” of 5 percent. Also, benzene levels were found in concentrations much higher than that accepted by the California Human Health Screening Level.

These findings prompted the council to demand an immediate solution from state regulatory agencies. As it is, Shell is still developing a final work plan, which must be approved by the regional water board before cleaning can begin. The process of developing and approving the plan is expected to at least take the rest of the year.

If the council approves its resolution, which it asked staff members to prepare last week, the city will ask Gov. Jerry Brown and the State Water Resources Control Board to help “address and mitigate the emergency conditions at the Carousel tract.”

The city’s resolution also asks the executive officer of the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board to “immediately order and require Shell to fully comply” with the cleanup order.

Technical experts contracted by Shell to review environmental hazards and the cleanup process in Carousel tract were not available for comment Friday, but a Shell spokesman said the figures cited by L. Everett & Associates do not represent a threat.

“Based on testing analysis, the water board, Los Angeles County Fire Department, and the Department of Public Health have all indicated that there’s no immediate threat,” Shell spokesman Alan Caldwell said. “We have to leave it in the hands of the regulatory agencies. They have the final say, not Shell.”

Caldwell said the test that found a pocket of methane at 59.7 percent volume and excessively high benzene levels was in the street, rather than under a home, and from a “one-time sample” that does not represent the average levels of contaminates found. Also, the “zone of flammability” for methane is a volume from 5 to 15 percent, which means the methane found in the Carousel tract was not flammable, Caldwell said.

But for residents like Post, there’s no question dangers lurk beneath homes. They have been told not to garden or dig in the soil for any reason. Occasionally, a dug-up hole in the neighborhood reveals smelly, thick black goo.

“This place is a ticking time bomb, with all the methane moving around underneath us,” Post said. “This place could go up. I’m one of the fortunate ones, I haven’t had anything wrong with me yet, but it’s all around me.”

The city’s decision to join the residents in demanding an immediate resolution is something Post has wanted for years.

“It’s just not the same listening to the Barbara Posts of the world as it is the world-renowned experts,” she said. “It gives some credibility to what we’ve been living through for the last five years.”

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MAUGHAN SEEKS AN EASY WAY OUT THROUGH PHONE COMMUNICATIONS, JULY 22, 2013

from:		antonio jr. Buensuceso <antoniobuensuceso@gmail.com>
to:		"Maughan, James@Waterboards"
cc:		antonio buensuceso , shellresearchworks@gmail.com, jun.benefits@gmail.com
date:		Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:19 AM
subject:		CONTINUING DEMAND FOR THE RETURN OF ERES ORIGINAL DOCUMENT
mailed-by:		gmail.com

July 22,  2013

Mr. James Maughan
Assistant Deputy Director
Division of Financial Assistance
Phone: 916-341-5694
Email: jmaughan@waterboards.ca.gov
Mail address:  1001 I Street, 16th Floor, Sacramento, CA 95814

Dear Mr. James Maughan,

Good morning.

With all due respect, verbal communications would be even more painful with you on the other side of the
line. As my written and  fully documented e-mail  communications  showed, you are a person who has the 
propensity to misrepresent, cheat and lie. Despite the fact, that you have sent me just photo copy of my
Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering credentials as evaluated by ERES  without your signature, so with the signatures of Mr Wes Wilkinson and Ms Anna Hernandez and claimed that you have sent me all the originals and stated that, " We have nothing else to give you." as shown on your e-mail below, in other words, these are duly recorded and documented  e-mail communications, yet, you are bold enough to cheat and lie,
then more cheating and lying  I could expect from you through phone communications as these are not recorded communications. Please excuse me, Mr. Maughan, there is no sense talking to you by the phone.

Since, September 6, 2012,on my letter, last paragraph  I have requested and demanded that the original copy of my educational credentials covering the Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering as evaluated by
ERES (Educational Records Evaluation Service, Sacramento, Ca) be returned to me with signature of Ms Anna Hernandez initially, which later, since Mr Wes Wilkinson and you have checked it as well, I requested that Mr Wes Wilkinson and you signed it  just the same. I wanted to categorically state that you have not send me 
yet the original copy of my educational credentials. With regard to this issue, It is worthwhile to inform you that Ms Debbie Zuccala willfully refused to reply,  Ms  Anna Hernandez  failed to respond, Mr Wes Wilkinson ignored to reply, the Office of Operator Certification ignored to reply, then Mr Andrew Cooper withheld the information about this ERES educational credentials, then ran away and hide, then now you are telling me that you have sent all the original copy and you have nothing else to return. With all due respect, you are cheating.

Since, September 6, 2012, I have drawn the line. I will not send in any additional educational records. I do not
intend to seek the complete or over all  educational points that the Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering could make. I just needed the minimum six(6) educational points. It does not make sense that you needed to analyse transcript of records from schools and universities from the Philippines to come up to conclusion that I met the required minimum six(6) educational point for WWTP operator certification examination. The evaluation of the transcript of records for this mentioned educational credentials have 
been well taken cared of by ERES for you. Besides, as my record and experience   with your staff is to be considered, with all due respect, they are inefficient and irresponsible and cunning. At most, as I saw it, 
they would not know  how to evaluate transcript of records from foreign countries as evidenced by their 
deeds, as exemplified on the next paragraphs.

See for yourself, again with all due respect, Ms Debbie Zuccala, considered my WWTP Operator Certification application for an application for WWTP  Operator-in-Training Certification. These application forms are distinctly different from each other and when asked  why,  she refused to reply. The code regulation said, that  applications not in the correct forms shall be considered deficient and deficient applications shall not be processed but Ms Debbie Zuccala still processed my application though it is deficient.

That same application though has already found an application for WWTP operator certification and not
correct application for WWTP operator certification examination, but  still Ms Anna Hernandez process it,
though it was deficient. A violation of you own regulation done not once, but twice with express approval of
Mr. Wes Wilkinson.

Second, Mr Wes Wilkinson and Ms Christine Gordon in conspiracy, both send me an e-mail on September 24, 2012 claiming each one of them is Ms Debbie Zuccala's manager with covert intention to confuse me and drive away culpability from Ms. Debbie Zuccala. Though they might be both managers for Ms Debbie Zuccala, prudence and courtesy and good judgment dictate that it would be very confusing for me to talk to two managers for the same person, especially so, when these two managers are avoiding accountability for 
Ms Debbie Zuccala deeds and/or omissions. Consequently, they have completely confused me.

Third, Mr. Andrew Cooper, declared himself as the Freedom of Information Officer, then, withheld the 
information about the now controversial "ERES educational credentials" and when informed that he was replying to a letter not addressed to him and told that his act consisted "usurpation of authority," now,
he is gone into hiding.

Fourth, as to the person who opened the the letter addressed to the Agency Administrator of the California
Water Resources Control Board as my records showed the suspects might be  from Mr. Andrew Cooper, then,
Mr. Wes Wilkinson and then you, Mr. James Maughan. As you already knew, that letter was addressed to 
Mr. Tim Howard and not to you. With all due respect, with your deeds and/or omissions, which plunged me
into deeper pain and misery, you became (pardon me for this word) a shame to the office of Mr. Tim Howard
which you are trying to represent.

Fifth, with your continuing reluctance to return to me original copy of my educational credentials as evaluated by ERES (Educational Records Evaluation Service, Sacramento, Ca) together with your signature
and rest of signatures of Ms Anna Hernandez and Mr. Wes Wilkinson,  you have effectively deny me of the 
chance to show that pieces of document to a neutral third party and to seek their corresponding advice about
this matter. 

Again, I wanted to reiterate that If Ms Anna Hernandez, and Mr. Wes Wilkinson and you, most respectfully,
Mr. Maughan strongly believe that you are right on denying the minimum six(6) educational point requirement on my educational credentials that is with you right now,(no transcript of records) for a Grade 1 WWTP operator certification examination, then, please do not hide it, and put your signature on it with pride and great honor to show the public that you have done the right thing. Otherwise, you have done something ridiculous.

Please send me back the original educational records covering the Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering as evaluated by ERES as soon as you can. 

Thank you very much.

Yours faithfully,

Antonio L. Buensuceso

reference e-mail below :

Maughan, James@Waterboards    Jul 19 (3 days ago)
to me, shellresearchw.

Mr. Buensuceso, I am truly sorry you are having a painful experience concerning your correspondence with my office.  I want to state again I think it would be very helpful if we could communicate with you by phone so that we could verbally explain what we need.

We have given all original documents that you have sent us. We have nothing else to give you.  We do not dispute the credentials you submitted to us from “ERES”.  Again they do not contain the detail we need to make our evaluation for the educational points.   The information is too general you submitted we need to know the specific classes you took to earn your five-year Bachelor of Science.  Again we do not dispute that you earned the degree.

If you will please send us the transcripts of the classes I am sure we can resolve this.  Again my offer still stands to talk you by phone.  We will call you and pay for the phone call all you need to do is give us the number to call you and the time to call you at that number.

Please understand if you keep asking the same question that we have already answered we will not respond.  If you have other question I will be happy to respond.

James Maughan

Assistant Deputy Director,  Division of Financial Assistance

916-341-5694

jmaughan@waterboards.ca.gov

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Carson to declare emergency stemming from Carousel tract contamination

Jul 20th, 2013

by John Donovan.

No one disputes that cancer-causing benzene, explosive methane and other hazardous compounds are present in the abandoned oil waste. But while Shell’s testers argue the chemicals don’t pose major health risks, residents and the investigators representing them say that people and pets have become sick and died from a spectrum of illnesses as a result of living in the community.

By Sandy Mazza, Staff Writer: Posted: 07/19/2013

Carson is on the verge of declaring a local emergency to spur more rapid cleanup of its environmentally contaminated Carousel housing tract, which sits on a former oil tank farm that left untold amounts of petroleum just a few feet below the neighborhood’s 285 homes.

The city filed a claim for damages this week in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging that Shell Oil Co. is trespassing and creating a public nuisance that is causing injury. On Thursday night, council members told staff to prepare an emergency resolution seeking immediate remediation of the problem.

“Five years is long enough,” Councilman Mike Gipson said. “The people of Carousel tract need some answers now. When will this be resolved? And how? No one is answering that. Everyone is passing the buck while people’s lives are hanging in the balance. It’s not fair.”

It isn’t clear how the regulatory agency overseeing the cleanup — the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board — will respond to Carson’s declaration. Officials have known about the problem for five years and, as it stands now, actual cleanup won’t begin until next year at the earliest.

“It’s really expressing the city’s concern about the state of the current environmental investigation,” Carson Planning Officer Sheri Repp-Loadsman said. “We’re looking at the best ways to use the (local emergency) resolution as a tool.”

The council will consider adopting the emergency resolution at or before its Aug. 6 meeting, Repp-Loadsman said.

Two years ago, the regional water board ordered Shell to clean the soil to a depth of 10 feet below the residential community. Since then, the company has conducted extensive testing inside homes and below ground to determine whether the oil is turning into hazardous vapors.

No one disputes that cancer-causing benzene, explosive methane and other hazardous compounds are present in the abandoned oil waste. But while Shell’s testers argue the chemicals don’t pose major health risks, residents and the investigators representing them say that people and pets have become sick and died from a spectrum of illnesses as a result of living in the community.

The oil was discovered during soil testing in 2008 near the 50-acre community on the city’s southernmost boundary, near Wilmington. Soon after it was found, Shell investigators began tests to determine how bad the contamination was.

The crude stems from the tank farm that occupied the land from the 1920s through 1966, when construction began on the Carousel tract. Shell used the area to store crude oil and, when the company vacated the property, it demolished oil reservoirs and left the rubble and waste petroleum in the ground. Though the tanks reached a below-ground depth of roughly 10 feet, the oil has leaked at least 50 feet below ground, investigators said.

Since 2008, residents have been warned not to let their children play in backyards. Rigorous testing has temporarily displaced homeowners while investigators take over their homes to test the air quality and sub-slab vapors. In the past year, Shell’s pilot tests have dug up front yards, exposing smelly, oil-soaked soil. The water board has required Shell to submit a so-called Remedial Action Plan by the end of this year to outline the steps it will take to clean the soil and its time line. The actual cleanup is scheduled to begin once the water board approves that plan.

However, attorneys representing the residents and the city argue that Shell’s tentative plan to clean soil to a depth of 10 feet below some homes — and only on land that isn’t developed — is extremely flawed.

The July 16 complaint was filed on behalf of the city by Girardi and Keese, the same law firm representing residents suing Shell. Girardi and Keese and its investigator, Erin Brockovich, battled PG&E in a contamination case involving the desert town of Hinkley, Calif., that was dramatized in a 2000 feature film.

The complaint demands “full and total abatement of the contamination down to approximately 40 feet below the Carousel neighborhood.”

Bob Finnerty, an attorney with Girardi and Keese, said several complaints have already been filed on behalf of 1,008 clients who say they have been physically and financially harmed by living in the neighborhood.

“The soil is contaminated down to 50 feet,” Finnerty said. “The water board is exploring the removal of 10 feet to determine whether or not that would be sufficient. The reality is that would be a simple Band-Aid procedure and, in a few years, residents would have the identical problem of vapor intrusion into their homes.”

sandy.mazza@dailybreeze.com

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