Showing posts with label Kinder Morgan. Show all posts
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Fatal blast bringing tight new rules or Better Investigators - Three persons near this fire deceased.
Pete Bennett3:12 PMArson, ATF, Contra Costa District Attorney, Contra Costa Grand Jury, Cover-up, Driscoll, Explosions, Kinder Morgan, Murder Suicide, PG&E, pgewitness.com, The Driscoll Murders
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WALNUT CREEK / Fatal blast bringing tight new rules / Lawmaker says buried utility lines need better marking
Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer
Published 4:00 am, Saturday, June 11, 2005
After a Senate committee hearing Friday into November's fuel-line blast in Walnut Creek that killed five workers, state Sen. Tom Torlakson said he will push for tighter laws regulating how hazardous underground utilities are marked and how construction crews can avoid them.
Current methods of protecting utilities are "very ad hoc, and that's not right. That's not safe," Torlakson, D-Antioch, said after the two-hour meeting at Walnut Creek City Hall.
Workers who mark utilities may require special certification and should employ more advanced technology than they currently use, Torlakson said, echoing suggestions made by some speakers. He also suggested that fines levied for accidents may need to be heftier.
It was the first public hearing since the Nov. 9 blast, in which a backhoe operator installing an East Bay Municipal Utility District water main hit a buried fuel line, releasing a stream of gas ignited by nearby welders.
The catastrophe has prompted several investigations, a raft of lawsuits and calls for new laws. Officials from workplace safety regulator Cal/OSHA appearing at Friday's hearing said they would consider new laws and regulations after consulting a panel of state and industry experts next month.
"The thing that stands out about this incident is its disturbing simplicity," said Len Welsh, acting director of Cal/OSHA. "We need a system that is resilient to human performance errors."
Cal/OSHA last month blamed Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, saying it failed to mark a bend in its fuel line. It issued the firm two "willful" violations -- the stiffest possible penalty -- and fined it $140,000, while the utility district, the contractor and a mapping firm received "serious" citations.
Kinder Morgan officials, who say they properly marked the line and provided maps showing the bend that was struck, are appealing the ruling. Company officials did not attend the hearing, but sent a letter saying the firm -- which operates 10,000 miles of pipelines in 21 states -- is "retaining additional third-party expertise concerning line marking practices, " providing more training and education and buying "state of the art line locating equipment."
Currently, state law requires Bay Area excavators, before digging, to call a nonprofit service that in turn contacts the owners of any nearby underground pipelines and utilities. Those owners must locate and mark their lines or advise workers of their location. Should those workers approach the line, they must dig by hand to expose it and protect it.
But Torlakson, EBMUD General Manager Dennis Diemer and others asked why there are no rules specifying exactly when utility owners should, for example, use paint to mark the path of a line or dig "potholes" that expose the line from the surface.
Mark Breslin, executive director of the Engineering and Utility Contractors Association, which represents about 400 companies, said the Walnut Creek explosion was "only a symptom of a recurring and pervasive problem in marking utilities in the state."
Also at the meeting, state Fire Marshal Ruben Grijalva said his pipeline safety division was within two weeks of issuing its report on the Walnut Creek blast. He said his investigators also believe it was caused by "the line not being properly marked" and could seek fines up to $500,000.
"There was enough regulation and legislation in place so that this should not have happened," Grijalva said. "It just wasn't followed."
Bennett's Litigation Score Card - If you've ever lost a case in Contra Costa County
Pete Bennett10:58 PMBenny Chetcuti Jr., Butte District Attorney, Contra Costa Bar Association, Contra Costa District Attorney, Contra Costa Superior Court, Kidnapping, Kinder Morgan, Murder, Parental Abduction, Southern Pacific, Southern Pacific Pipeline Partners, State Bar, Suicides, The Gary Vinson Collins Witness Murder Affair, Walnut Creek, Witnesses
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The Contra Costa District Attorney
Murder for Hire
Updated: Nov. 11, 2017
Litigation Scorecard
- Bennett V. Southern Pacific - Forced Adverse Settlement
- Bennett's cabinet shop attacked with break-ins, shootings and arson - Bennett loses business
- Fang v. Bennett 1987 - down the middle losses over $35,000
- Fang Murdered in 2000
- Bennett as Witness suppressed by Lt. Lawrence refused to take statement
- Bennett V. Collins - Danville Police and Town of Danville hid Collins from service
- Documents handed to Chief Bryden on Nov 1st 2011 incriminating police officers, attorneys, and investigators plus Collins
- Weeks Later CNET Witness Collins is dead plus two other divorces - Collins knows Butler, and Tanabe from Danville PD Murder By Accident
- Tarrant v. Bennett - Counsel Dax Craven - lied that he knew my ex-wife (Mormon)
- Charter Collections v. Authentic Technologies - Don Moats - disbarred but Moats offices burned down in 2001 - FBI investigated case too bad for Walnut Creek Police
- Bennett hit with restraining orders by San Ramon Unified School District
- Bennett's attorney in Collins matter beaten, threatened and left the area
- Bennett's Attorney Moats wife murdered in Walnut Creek 1989
- Bennett's Attorney Dax Craven brother in-law Nate Greenan murdered on April 18th 2012 in Orinda
Other cases known to Bennett
- Portue v. Dan Terry Contra Costa County Sheriff - Attorney Stu Stafine forced into adverse settlement loses case - Stafine dead within days.
- Attorney Daniel Horowitz wife murdered in 2005
- Attorney suing Seeno killed in car crash
- Department of Elections two suicides connected to this department- with widows permission Bennett asks questions - you bet they didn't like those questions - The Head of the DOE suddenly announces retirement (very suddenly)
Check out "The Superior Court Murders"
Open Letter; CEO Anthony Early
Pete Bennett2:42 AMArson, AT&T, ATF, Domestic Terrorism, Explosions, Kinder Morgan, Murder, Piedmont Lumber, Stories, Sugihara, The Dirty Investigations
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Dear Mr. Early,
We share a common suite of events - we are both arson victims. The difference between our situations vastly different as my story leads to Police Officers, Attorneys, Private Investigators, a long unchecked investment scandal plus a slew of verifiable fires, kidnappings, arson cases, and sadly a few murders connected to your employees or vendors that are also connected to my world.
During the PG&E Engagement I had several attempts to take my life via accidents, beatings, muggings and while around town. I've been homeless off and on since 2010 which started right after I met a PG&E High Performance Engineer. A retired San Francisco Police Lt. who was at the Piedmont Lumber (Fire/Arson) in 2010 was standing next to your Engineer. I believe his job would be calculating little things like Pipeline Pressures.
I've filed police reports but none have gone anywhere but the FBI, State and perhaps a few from Contra Costa County are actually doing something.
While the Attorneys toss the workers away like pawns on a Chessboard one of the worlds largest utilities is clearly under attack but worse while the attorneys jostle PG&E faces a paradoxical issues. The recent announcement by Jon Wellinghoff former Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and retired FBI Rick Smith but based on their statements I've been emailing ATF, FBI, State Investigators and PG&E Attorneys about what happened to my laptop that was breached several times.
Your vendor placed thousands of sensitive PG&E documents on my laptop which was stolen in 2012 but recovered by the Walnut Creek Bomb Squad but lacking a decent explanation of where it was for 10 hours.
On April 4th 2012 a pipe bomb found on the Iron Horse Trail is another dangerous incident. This is the same mission critical location where Kinder Morgan Gate Valve is located which was shut down the 2004 Kinder Morgan
There are several problems with the 2004 Kinder-Morgan Fire
- First Person Witness Deceased
- Please see At Risk Los Lomas and Murwood Students deceased several unusual deaths
- Students now adults interviewed separately consistently state they heard two explosions
- One of those students is the son of a friend - No one ever gave him a completed report on his sons drowning - Williams, Mary Alicia Driscoll,
- The other witness is a Federal Agent / and partner whose first person pictures were stolen. The person who stole the camera was arrested and sent to prison for a dubious murder case.
The Hillgrade Event - Domestic Terrorism in Action
San Bruno sues CPUC for access to blast documents
South Bay News
Attack on South Bay power station called 'terrorism'
Dead Witnesses: Druggist used pain patches to end his life / Walnut Creek pharmacist punished for tainted doses
Pete Bennett5:06 PMBacterial Meningitis, Bacterial Warfare, Doc's Pharmacy Incident, Kinder Morgan, Murder, safeway, Southern Pacific, Southern Pacific Pipeline Partners, Suicides, The Doc's Pharmacy Murders, Walnut Creek
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This person is technically a witness to a potential criminal case.
Druggist used pain patches to end his life / Walnut Creek pharmacist punished for tainted doses
Erin Hallissy, Jim Herron Zamora, Chronicle Staff Writers
Published 4:00 am, Friday, March 29, 2002
Despondent that he was facing punishment for a fatal meningitis (please read Meningitis as Murder Weapon) outbreak last year that was linked to his pharmacy, a young pharmacist committed suicide by overdosing himself with powerful painkiller patches, coroner's reports say.
Jamey Phillip Sheets, 32, who owned just under half of Doc's Pharmacy until it was sold last year, was discovered dead on Tuesday night by his wife, Michelle, when she returned to their Pleasant Hill home from a trip to Southern California that Sheets had refused to go on.
"Everyone is shocked by this," Sheets' attorney, John Francis Martin, said yesterday. "I really can't comprehend how desperate he must have been."
Michelle Sheets told authorities that her husband had been depressed over having his license suspended for 90 days beginning on Sunday, and over financial problems related to losing his co-ownership of Doc's, said Pleasant Hill Police Lt. Gary Ezell
According to state records, Sheets believed he was being unfairly blamed for the contaminated medication that killed three people.
Sheets had not made any suicide threats, and his wife was not worried that he'd harm himself while she traveled with their two young children to visit her mother in Oceanside, Ezell said.
"She felt that she'd allow him some space in the hopes that he'd be improved" when she returned, he said.
Instead, she found him dead in bed, with six high-dosage fentanyl patches on his neck and chest and an open can of beer nearby.
No suicide note was found. A woman at the Sheets' home yesterday said Michelle Sheets would not speak to reporters.
Fentanyl is a morphine derivative mainly used by patients with terminal cancer. The 100-milligram patch is the strongest made, and is designed to release the drug over 72 hours, said Ryan de Guzman, a pharmacist in Stockton who teaches at the University of the Pacific pharmacy school.
"I would imagine that it would be a peaceful way to knock yourself out, with no pain at all," de Guzman. "This is probably why he chose the route he did."
Although Sheets owned 49 percent of Doc's Pharmacy in Walnut Creek, most of the legal and administrative blame for the meningitis outbreak has been placed on his longtime co-owner, Robert Horwitz, a major proponent of compounding, or specially mixing medications.
Last May and June, three people died and 13 others were hospitalized after receiving spinal shots of a steroid called betamethasone mixed by Doc's Pharmacy technicians. The medicine, used to treat back pain, was not properly sterilized and was contaminated by a common bacterium.
Horwitz will lose his license for one year beginning Sunday. Sheets would have gotten his license back, with some restrictions, and then been on probation for five years. He also was ordered to pay $37,159 in investigation and prosecution costs.
Sheets had worked in the pharmacy of a Walnut Creek Safeway since August. Safeway had agreed to let him continue working in a non-pharmacy role during his suspension, Ezell said.
Sheets "wasn't happy with the result, but I didn't think he was despondent over it," his attorney said. "He had everything to live for and nothing to die for. He had a beautiful wife and two beautiful kids. He was a great young man. This was not something that would keep him back for long."
Sheets was an up-and-coming pharmacist when Horwitz, 62, recruited him with the promise that the younger man would eventually take over the business.
But Sheets, who had specialized in clinical work, had no experience in compounding medications or in retail pharmacy.
"I foolishly was led to believe that Doc's Pharmacy, being such a well- respected pharmacy and Dr. Horwitz being so well-revered by his colleagues, was following all practices to the letter of the law," he wrote the Board of Pharmacy after the meningitis tragedy.
Sheets had no direct involvement in compounding the tainted medicine, the reports say. He insisted to state officials that he could not be blamed because he had not been at the pharmacy when the drugs were compounded.
State officials found that Horwitz was ultimately responsible because he was the pharmacist in charge and established most of the pharmacy's practices.
"Mostly out of deference to and respect for Horwitz, he never thought to challenge established compounding procedures or to push hard for improved quality controls," officials found
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Druggist used pain patches to end his life / Walnut Creek pharmacist punished for tainted doses
Pete Bennett2:41 PMBacterial Warfare, Doc's Pharmacy Incident, Kinder Morgan, safeway, Southern Pacific, Southern Pacific Pipeline Partners, Suicides, The Doc's Pharmacy Murders, Walnut Creek
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Posted: 12/18/2013
Another deceased Witness?
Druggist used pain patches to end his life / Walnut Creek pharmacist punished for tainted doses
Erin Hallissy, Jim Herron Zamora, Chronicle Staff Writers
Published 4:00 am, Friday, March 29, 2002
Despondent that he was facing punishment for a fatal meningitis outbreak last year that was linked to his pharmacy, a young pharmacist committed suicide by overdosing himself with powerful painkiller patches, coroner's reports say.
Jamey Phillip Sheets, 32, who owned just under half of Doc's Pharmacy until it was sold last year, was discovered dead on Tuesday night by his wife, Michelle, when she returned to their Pleasant Hill home from a trip to Southern California that Sheets had refused to go on.
"Everyone is shocked by this," Sheets' attorney, John Francis Martin, said yesterday. "I really can't comprehend how desperate he must have been."
Michelle Sheets told authorities that her husband had been depressed over having his license suspended for 90 days beginning on Sunday, and over financial problems related to losing his co-ownership of Doc's, said Pleasant Hill Police Lt. Gary Ezell.
According to state records, Sheets believed he was being unfairly blamed for the contaminated medication that killed three people.
Sheets had not made any suicide threats, and his wife was not worried that he'd harm himself while she traveled with their two young children to visit her mother in Oceanside, Ezell said.
"She felt that she'd allow him some space in the hopes that he'd be improved" when she returned, he said.
Instead, she found him dead in bed, with six high-dosage fentanyl patches on his neck and chest and an open can of beer nearby.
No suicide note was found. A woman at the Sheets' home yesterday said Michelle Sheets would not speak to reporters.
Fentanyl is a morphine derivative mainly used by patients with terminal cancer. The 100-milligram patch is the strongest made, and is designed to release the drug over 72 hours, said Ryan de Guzman, a pharmacist in Stockton who teaches at the University of the Pacific pharmacy school.
"I would imagine that it would be a peaceful way to knock yourself out, with no pain at all," de Guzman. "This is probably why he chose the route he did."
Although Sheets owned 49 percent of Doc's Pharmacy in Walnut Creek, most of the legal and administrative blame for the meningitis outbreak has been placed on his longtime co-owner, Robert Horwitz, a major proponent of compounding, or specially mixing medications.
Last May and June, three people died and 13 others were hospitalized after receiving spinal shots of a steroid called betamethasone mixed by Doc's Pharmacy technicians. The medicine, used to treat back pain, was not properly sterilized and was contaminated by a common bacterium.
Horwitz will lose his license for one year beginning Sunday. Sheets would have gotten his license back, with some restrictions, and then been on probation for five years. He also was ordered to pay $37,159 in investigation and prosecution costs.
Sheets had worked in the pharmacy of a Walnut Creek Safeway since August. Safeway had agreed to let him continue working in a non-pharmacy role during his suspension, Ezell said.
Sheets "wasn't happy with the result, but I didn't think he was despondent over it," his attorney said. "He had everything to live for and nothing to die for. He had a beautiful wife and two beautiful kids. He was a great young man. This was not something that would keep him back for long."
Sheets was an up-and-coming pharmacist when Horwitz, 62, recruited him with the promise that the younger man would eventually take over the business.
But Sheets, who had specialized in clinical work, had no experience in compounding medications or in retail pharmacy.
"I foolishly was led to believe that Doc's Pharmacy, being such a well- respected pharmacy and Dr. Horwitz being so well-revered by his colleagues, was following all practices to the letter of the law," he wrote the Board of Pharmacy after the meningitis tragedy.
Sheets had no direct involvement in compounding the tainted medicine, the reports say. He insisted to state officials that he could not be blamed because he had not been at the pharmacy when the drugs were compounded.
State officials found that Horwitz was ultimately responsible because he was the pharmacist in charge and established most of the pharmacy's practices.
"Mostly out of deference to and respect for Horwitz, he never thought to challenge established compounding procedures or to push hard for improved quality controls," officials found.
California Bus Crash Sends Nine Disabled Adults To Hospital
Pete Bennett5:16 PMArson, ATF, Bomb Squad, Contra Costa Bar Association, Contra Costa District Attorney, Driscoll, EBMUD, Explosions, Kinder Morgan, Richard Morgan, Warren Buffett
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This victim was Danville resident Chad Cordon, his family is Mormon who attended Alamo 1st, Alamo CA, Across the street just a month earlier was the deadly Kinder Morgan explosion where 10 years later super investor Warren Buffett arrives with 250 million dollar investment.
California Bus Crash Sends Nine Disabled Adults To Hospital
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California (AP) -- Inattentive driving may be to blame for a Friday morning bus crash that sent nine developmentally disabled adults to area hospitals, Walnut Creek police said.
About 9 a.m. a small bus operated by San Francisco-based Trans-Metro Express carrying nine passengers with various disabilities crashed head-on into a concrete pile on Lilac Drive under Interstate 680, behind Kaiser Hospital.
All nine passengers and the driver were taken to three different hospitals. The driver and one passenger had serious injuries but were stabilized at John Muir Medical Center, Lt. Loren Cattolico said.
The driver may have been talking to passengers when he veered left onto an island and crashed into the large concrete pillar, Cattolico said.
Cattolico did not release names of the driver or passengers, saying the reports would not be completed until Monday or Tuesday.
Buses from several companies contracted by the Regional Center of the East Bay pick up about 2,500 developmentally disabled adults every day and take them to hundreds of centers and programs in Contra Costa and Alameda counties, said Jim Burton, executive director of the center. The Regional Center coordinates the programs and transportation for each of the participants in the East Bay.
The bus that crashed Friday morning was on its way to Christmas parties at two vocational centers in Lafayette.
"They're not capable of traveling independently so they're picked up by this bus company," said Jacquie Allen, program director at Futures Explored, one of the centers.
Allen hurried to Kaiser to help identify the passengers and contact family members when she heard about the crash.
"They just looked like they were scared," she said.
Allen brought two of the passengers back to Futures in time for part of the Christmas festivities.
Some of the clients at Futures can't speak and firefighters had difficulty communicating with them.
Six of the moderately injured people were taken into Kaiser for evaluation, in case they were not able to alert rescue workers to an injury, a fire official said.
Neither Allen nor Burton could recall a traffic accident in the program in recent history.
"This will be thoroughly investigated," Burton said.
The Regional Center began working with Trans-Metro Express for busing about a year ago, Burton said. The California Highway Patrol had no record of citations or accidents for the company.
A company spokeswoman referred all questions to the Regional Center.
Caltrans inspectors said the crash did not damage the support pillar, Walnut Creek police reported.