CARSON, Calif. (KABC) — An environmental controversy surfaces again in Carson, where the city is locked in a legal battle with an oil giant.
Residents say oil and chemicals are oozing up again from the ground in their neighborhoods. AT&T crews came to look at a phone line and what they found underground was oil, just a few feet below the surface of the Carousel Tract neighborhood.
“I was speechless. I didn’t even know what to say because the oil was just oozing out of the sides of this hole,” said resident Barbara Post.
Shell Oil Company kept three tanks here from the 1920s to 1960s when it closed in the late 1960s. The 285 homes in the neighborhood were built on top of the tanks. Four years ago, the water control board detected the cancer-causing benzene in the soil at 100,000 times the screening level, plus dangerous methane as well. Neighbors said several dogs developed tumors just by playing outside.
“So many of our dogs — I had three that died of cancer,” said Post.
In 2010, the California Regional Water Quality Control Board advised residents to “minimize contact with soil” in their backyards. Resident Kathy Post blames her health problems on years of gardening.
“Pneumonia started, then asthma started, then a tumor in this leg,” said Kathy Post.
In 2010, residents protested alongside activist Erin Brockovich. Last year, the city of Carson joined in their lawsuit against Shell, which is still pending in court. For now, Shell is paying for testing, looking at samples from every home and possibly pumping in new soil.
Residents said that the more Shell tests, the more oil they see coming up. Evelyn Salinas’ garage is now full of cracks with what looks like oil deposits seeping up. Residents want to move, but they said selling their homes is virtually impossible now.
“None of the banks will help you at all because of the mess in here,” said resident Darlene Wells.
People in the neighborhood believe the only real solution is for Shell to buy all their homes.
“Move us out of here. Make us whole. Give us a neighborhood,” said Barbara Post.
Shell did not return our calls for a comment.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
