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A top Richmond police official says the work has strained the understaffed department. And a member of the Richmond City Council says the police presence is a problematic use of public law enforcement resources at a time when staffing is strained.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Fred Glass, instructor in labor and community studies, City College of San Francisco\"]‘Most strikes are quite law-abiding, so the use of private security or off-duty police — or for that matter on-duty police — is usually more meant to intimidate than actually protect anything.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are we deploying our police officers to support a corporation like Chevron?” said Richmond City Councilmember Claudia Jimenez, a critic of the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chevron.com/-/media/chevron/stories/documents/1Q22-earnings-press-release.pdf\">Chevron announced a profit of $6.3 billion\u003c/a> for the first three months of this year, more than quadruple its earnings for the same period a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police presence at the Richmond refinery is one element of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908916/a-strike-at-chevrons-richmond-refinery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">labor conflict\u003c/a> that sees no signs of ending. Chevron and leaders of United Steelworkers Local 5 have met several times since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908722/they-own-the-oil-but-the-people-are-ours-workers-strike-at-chevrons-richmond-refinery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the walkout began March 21\u003c/a>. Neither the company nor the union has indicated that a resolution on the sticking points, which include worker safety as well as pay and benefits, is close.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Chevron understands the optics’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Four days after the strike began, the refinery’s security director asked four law enforcement agencies whether they could station officers outside the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was asked to reach out to you and any other police agencies to see if there is any interest in providing, on Chevron paid overtime, uniformed officers to assist in keeping traffic flowing around the refinery,” wrote Chevron Security Director Daryl Jackson in a March 25 email to the California Highway Patrol and Richmond, San Pablo and El Cerrito police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email, obtained by KQED through California Public Records Act requests, describes the job as a “24/7 operation.” Two officers would be deployed during the day and two at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chevron understands the optics, but I’ve seen some very dangerous vehicle opportunities and those optics have the opportunity to look bad as well,” Jackson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hours later, San Pablo Police Chief Ron Raman wrote back, asking whether any of the other law enforcement agencies expressed interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Crickets. Nothing. Nada,” Jackson replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wow. Our rate would be close to $200 an offer [sic] per hour. I can try to fill but it’s kind of last minute,” Raman wrote. Five days later Chevron and San Pablo police officials began trading emails in order to create a contract, marking the first time that police department ever agreed to such a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the imminent and ongoing public safety concerns of the events of the refinery, the police department agreed to provide support in the interest of the West Contra Costa County community,” Raman told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Richmond officers deploy to refinery amid staffing shortages\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A top Richmond police officer replied to Chevron’s security manager on March 28 in a message that laid bare how strained that department has become.[aside postID=\"news_11908852,news_11908916,news_11908722\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“We can post an overtime sign-up to see if we garner any interest. However, our patrol officers are currently being forced over on multiple 16-18 hours shifts each week, on forced overtime (minimum staffing),” wrote Capt. Timothy Simmons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons told Chevron the department had already posted overtime opportunities for officers on several other projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these assignments routinely go unfilled because officers are tapped out. We will do our best,” wrote Simmons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED on Friday, Simmons said that before that exchange, Chevron had arranged for Richmond police officers to be ready in case there was trouble outside the refinery in the weeks leading up to the walkout. Those officers were paid overtime for being on call, but were never sent to the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since then, Chevron has called Richmond police frequently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s calls for service almost every day down there,” Simmons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has been asking police to clear roads so trucks can drive in and out of the facility. On occasion, officers are asked to respond to complaints of loud music on the picket line. On several occasions, Chevron has reported that one of its managers or contract workers has been assaulted, though police have never been able to substantiate those allegations and have made no arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons says the refinery calls have exacerbated pressure on a department that’s suffering from a shortage of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the leanest I have ever seen it,” said Simmons, a 13-year veteran of the department. “We are reaching critical mass staffing levels,” he added, saying that last week, all officers were ordered to sign up for overtime shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They [Chevron] are a major customer in our city. And we’re getting called down there often. It takes away from other things that that beat officer could be doing,” Simmons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Emails: Nonunion workers stayed inside refinery for over a week\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jackson, the Chevron security official, asked police agencies for help on April 1 in a message that revealed that non-striking refinery workers had been sleeping at the facility since the walkout began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The refinery is re-posturing itself by now allowing the initial workforce to go home for a day or two. 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"content": "\u003cp>Unionized workers at Chevron’s Richmond refinery went on strike early Monday, marking the most significant labor action by employees of a major oil-processing facility in California in seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action involves some 500 members of the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 5, whose leaders have been in contract talks with Chevron executives for months.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"B.K. White, negotiator, United Steelworkers Local 5\"]‘The fight has begun. A fight for maintaining a standard of living.’[/pullquote]Negotiations between the two sides broke down over the weekend, after the union rejected an offer by Chevron. The company told labor leaders they would not resume talks the following day, prompting the union on Saturday night to give notice of the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have nothing left but to withhold our labor,” B.K. White, a USW negotiator, said in an interview with KQED last month. “That’s the only thing we’ve got. They own the oil. They own the equipment. It’s their land. But the people are ours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late February, the national USW union reached a nationwide agreement with a group of oil industry companies on a framework for wage increases and working conditions. The union’s 200 or so regional chapters bargain over local issues before they agree on individual contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USW Local 5 and Chevron have not released the specific details of their contract proposals. The union says the sticking points center on worker safety and pay for some employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our people are working 12-hour shifts,” said Tracy Scott, president of USW Local 5, in an interview last month. “They’re asking them to come out on their days off and work additional 12-hour shifts, which compromises their efficiency and effectiveness by fatigue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White said \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/union-workers-chevron-refinery-prepare-strike-monday-2022-03-20/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his local chapter asked for a 5% pay increase above what was agreed to in the national deal\u003c/a> because of the higher cost of living in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fight has begun. A fight for maintaining a standard of living,” White said in a text message to KQED Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron executives say their contract offer is fair, competitive and responsive to the union’s concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“However, the union’s demands exceeded what the company believes to be reasonable and beyond what was agreed to as part of the national pattern bargaining agreement,” said Chevron spokesperson Linsi Crain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike is taking place amid significant increases in gasoline prices nationwide, particularly in California, where the cost at the pump is higher than in any other state. The average price per gallon of gasoline in the state \u003ca href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA\">reached $5.85 on Monday\u003c/a>, according to AAA. The average in San Francisco is now $5.92.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the strike causes the refinery to shut down, that would be bad news for the state’s consumers, said Severin Borenstein, an energy economist at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one of the major producers in the state, and California spot prices for wholesale gasoline are unusually high right now relative to the rest of the country, which indicates tight refining capacity,” he said. “Losing a major refinery would almost certainly push prices up substantially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has emphasized it plans to continue normal operations at the Richmond plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We anticipate no issues in maintaining a reliable supply of products to the market,” Crain, from Chevron, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tolly Graves, director of the Richmond facility, on Sunday told refinery workers the company had “notified USW that it will proceed with a safe and orderly refinery turnover,” according to a memo to employees obtained by KQED — implying that Chevron planned to transfer operations from union workers to managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Employees scheduled to work Sunday night should not report,” Graves said in the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union, along with its supporters and some elected leaders, have raised concerns about the increased risk of accidents if operations are handled by refinery managers and possibly other workers less familiar with the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia, who represents the district where the facility is located, says he’s concerned “the highly trained and experienced USW workers will not be operating the refinery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I continue to urge a resolution of the labor issues so that the Richmond community can feel secure that the most experienced refinery operators remain on the job running the facility,” he said in an email.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"chevron\"]Contra Costa County industrial regulators have been in touch with Chevron for weeks about the potential for a strike, according to Matthew Kaufmann, director of the county’s Hazardous Materials Programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency requires refineries to submit facility management change plans that address staffing levels, duties and training for people who would hold new roles in the event of a labor action. Kaufmann says Chevron had taken the necessary steps in preparation for a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the labor action, inspectors with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District will monitor operations at the Chevron refinery more closely than they normally do, according to agency spokesperson Kristine Roselius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor dispute laid bare the extreme tension that exists between some of Richmond’s city leaders and the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chevron has used Richmond as a personal piggy bank for generations,” Councilmember Claudia Jimenez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community is on the front lines of the climate crisis and environmental justice and we have Chevron to thank for it,” she added. “USW Local 5 workers are telling Chevron and the rest of the city that their bodies and minds have a limit, and our city does, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another council member, Eduardo Martinez, who’s running for mayor, said Chevron was indifferent to worker safety and the health of city residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a myth that we rely on Chevron for our economic well-being. They rely on us, the residents and the workers. I support USW Local 5 as they refuse to sacrifice all of our health for corporate profit,” Martinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s current mayor, Tom Butt, seemed unaware of the status of the labor dispute, as of Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last I heard from USW, they told me it was settled,” Butt said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last California refinery strike took place in February of 2015 when work was halted at what was then Tesoro’s Martinez refinery, which is now owned by Marathon Petroleum.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last October's prolonged heavy rain leaked through a roof into a key part of Chevron's Richmond refinery, leading to several days of pollution releases, according to reports the company recently filed with local regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water pouring through the leaky roof triggered a series of problems at the plant, including the sudden shutdown of an on-site unit that generates electricity and steam and the loss of a backup power supply. Those malfunctions knocked half a dozen of the facility's petroleum processing units offline. That in turn led to a small fire and prompted the refinery to flare off gases for three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron says it plans to look into building a stronger roof and improving its backup power supply, but the incident has raised concerns with a leading refinery safety expert and a top climate scientist, as well as the county agency tasked with regulating the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failures led the Contra Costa Hazardous Materials Program to send letters to more than 30 industrial facilities in the county asking them to outline how their plants would run if they lost power during significant weather events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron should have been able to better protect the Richmond refinery from the storm, according to Bill Hoyle, a retired senior investigator at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chevron is a major corporation with extensive experience, with lessons that should have been learned over many years regarding heavy rain events, in particular at their Pascagoula refinery in Mississippi,\" Hoyle said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, said the roof failure is worrisome given the future potential for stronger storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is somewhat alarming that basic infrastructural components of a facility like this are not designed to handle heavy precipitation just slightly beyond historical bounds, especially since we're going to see events like this, and larger, in the coming years,\" Swain said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a common thread across petrochemical facilities all around the world,\" Swain said. \"They both facilitate our fossil fuel-dependent economy but also appear to be quite vulnerable to the increasingly extreme weather and climate conditions brought about by global warming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Word of the cause of the October power failure comes amid a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TedrickG/status/1488620221682253826?s=20&t=JSghp-Ju87k57e04qdtnAA\">labor dispute between Chevron management and the union\u003c/a> representing its employees, in which worker safety is one of the key issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Chevron: 'Robust efforts' to prepare for storm \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893553/historic-rain-drenches-bay-area-amid-evacuations-and-power-outages\">storm that slammed into the Bay Area in October\u003c/a> toppled trees and caused power outages affecting hundreds of thousands of local residents. Some locations experienced their rainiest day on record on Oct. 24.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"chevron\"]Chevron says it made \"robust efforts\" to prepare for the storm but the rain that fell on Oct. 24 — a refinery weather station recorded 4.2 inches of rain that day — was too much for a key part of the complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The roof on the building housing critical electrical components for the [cogeneration plant] was not able to handle the severe weather that occurred,\" \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2021-1024-30day-followup-2022-0114.pdf\">Chevron said in its report\u003c/a> to the county's hazardous materials program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after 8 a.m. that day, water from the leaking roof caused an electrical ground fault, which led to the shutdown of several parts of one of the cogeneration plants. Those plants are designed to consume gases produced during refinery operations and generate steam and electricity for the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of power and steam from the cogeneration plants triggered more problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Smith, associate director of Tulane University's Energy Institute, said the sudden loss of electricity and steam \"has drastic negative effects on the downstream process units.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several parts of the refinery shut down. Then a backup power system for the cogeneration plants failed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/compliance-and-enforcement/flares/causal-reports/2021_1024_a0010_s6013_01-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=c52b590f82d84a7a9841a8676d1bd04c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refinery then routed gases to six refinery flares\u003c/a> on and off for more than 48 hours. The flames and smoke bursting from the facility could be seen for miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/plans-and-climate/emission-tracking-and-monitoring/flare-minimization-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flaring\u003c/a> is a measure refineries use to stabilize operations when they suffer malfunctions. Flaring can help prevent catastrophic failures in refinery units, but major incidents like the one in October release large volumes of toxic material into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil companies and refinery experts have emphasized that flaring is a necessary safety feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without the ability to flare hot, high-pressure gases, the whole site would have become a smoldering ruin\" during the October incident, Tulane's Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron reported months after the incident that the Richmond refinery's flares released at least 23,800 pounds of sulfur dioxide during the three-day incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air district officials said they were investigating to determine whether Chevron's flaring created a strong fuel-like odor that prompted the West Contra Costa Unified School District to close three schools the day after the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refinery officials have said their testing did not suggest the releases led to violations of air quality standards. County officials have said they did not detect any problems either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company told county hazardous materials regulators that it repaired the roof on the cogeneration plant that leaked and over the next year it will look into potential design changes for the roof so it can withstand future storms and see whether it needs to adjust its roof inspections, among other improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Chevron representative said the refinery conducts regular building inspections and that it has safety controls in place — and emphasized the October storm was an extreme event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The October 24 event was a rare convergence of two storms and the first significant winter storm, which resulted in historic, rapid rainfall. Chevron Richmond has robust operating plans in place to safely run the facility during power disruptions,\" Linsi Crain, a refinery spokesperson, said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These operating plans prioritize critical equipment in an effort to minimize any potential impact, and if necessary, direct process streams to safety flares,\" Crain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maintaining a reliable facility is a top focus item and we have dedicated teams that work to ensure the reliability of our operations under various circumstances.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Air district flaring data\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chevron's October releases renewed focus on the Chevron facility's flaring. Weeks after the storm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895438/richmond-to-chevron-listen-to-our-residents-concerns-about-your-problems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Richmond City Council sent Chevron a video\u003c/a> of a meeting in which residents complained that the company was not providing enough information about the plant's problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently published data from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District shows the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/board-of-directors/2021/sscic_presentations_122021_op-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=3e743e562a434c52b56e4e3968b9e191\">Chevron refinery experienced 93 flaring events\u003c/a> from 2016 through late 2021, compared to 122 for the other four local refineries combined. Last year, Chevron Richmond recorded 25 flaring incidents, one every two weeks on average. The other four refineries had a combined total of five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>October's storm came nearly a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860389/chevron-says-flawed-electrical-diagram-triggered-major-flaring-incident\">another power problem at Chevron\u003c/a> triggered a series of flaring incidents. The refinery blamed an incorrectly labeled electrical diagram for causing an outage in November 2020 that led to the release of 100,000 pounds of toxic gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many residents, environmentalists and public health advocates have expressed concern about refinery flaring and have called on Chevron, air district officials and industrial regulators to provide more timely and detailed information about refinery problems that lead to the pollution releases.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last October's prolonged heavy rain leaked through a roof into a key part of Chevron's Richmond refinery, leading to several days of pollution releases, according to reports the company recently filed with local regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water pouring through the leaky roof triggered a series of problems at the plant, including the sudden shutdown of an on-site unit that generates electricity and steam and the loss of a backup power supply. Those malfunctions knocked half a dozen of the facility's petroleum processing units offline. That in turn led to a small fire and prompted the refinery to flare off gases for three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron says it plans to look into building a stronger roof and improving its backup power supply, but the incident has raised concerns with a leading refinery safety expert and a top climate scientist, as well as the county agency tasked with regulating the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The failures led the Contra Costa Hazardous Materials Program to send letters to more than 30 industrial facilities in the county asking them to outline how their plants would run if they lost power during significant weather events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron should have been able to better protect the Richmond refinery from the storm, according to Bill Hoyle, a retired senior investigator at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Chevron says it made \"robust efforts\" to prepare for the storm but the rain that fell on Oct. 24 — a refinery weather station recorded 4.2 inches of rain that day — was too much for a key part of the complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The roof on the building housing critical electrical components for the [cogeneration plant] was not able to handle the severe weather that occurred,\" \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2021-1024-30day-followup-2022-0114.pdf\">Chevron said in its report\u003c/a> to the county's hazardous materials program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after 8 a.m. that day, water from the leaking roof caused an electrical ground fault, which led to the shutdown of several parts of one of the cogeneration plants. Those plants are designed to consume gases produced during refinery operations and generate steam and electricity for the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of power and steam from the cogeneration plants triggered more problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Smith, associate director of Tulane University's Energy Institute, said the sudden loss of electricity and steam \"has drastic negative effects on the downstream process units.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several parts of the refinery shut down. Then a backup power system for the cogeneration plants failed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/compliance-and-enforcement/flares/causal-reports/2021_1024_a0010_s6013_01-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=c52b590f82d84a7a9841a8676d1bd04c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refinery then routed gases to six refinery flares\u003c/a> on and off for more than 48 hours. The flames and smoke bursting from the facility could be seen for miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/plans-and-climate/emission-tracking-and-monitoring/flare-minimization-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flaring\u003c/a> is a measure refineries use to stabilize operations when they suffer malfunctions. 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County officials have said they did not detect any problems either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company told county hazardous materials regulators that it repaired the roof on the cogeneration plant that leaked and over the next year it will look into potential design changes for the roof so it can withstand future storms and see whether it needs to adjust its roof inspections, among other improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Chevron representative said the refinery conducts regular building inspections and that it has safety controls in place — and emphasized the October storm was an extreme event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The October 24 event was a rare convergence of two storms and the first significant winter storm, which resulted in historic, rapid rainfall. Chevron Richmond has robust operating plans in place to safely run the facility during power disruptions,\" Linsi Crain, a refinery spokesperson, said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These operating plans prioritize critical equipment in an effort to minimize any potential impact, and if necessary, direct process streams to safety flares,\" Crain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Maintaining a reliable facility is a top focus item and we have dedicated teams that work to ensure the reliability of our operations under various circumstances.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Air district flaring data\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chevron's October releases renewed focus on the Chevron facility's flaring. Weeks after the storm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11895438/richmond-to-chevron-listen-to-our-residents-concerns-about-your-problems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Richmond City Council sent Chevron a video\u003c/a> of a meeting in which residents complained that the company was not providing enough information about the plant's problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently published data from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District shows the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/board-of-directors/2021/sscic_presentations_122021_op-pdf.pdf?la=en&rev=3e743e562a434c52b56e4e3968b9e191\">Chevron refinery experienced 93 flaring events\u003c/a> from 2016 through late 2021, compared to 122 for the other four local refineries combined. Last year, Chevron Richmond recorded 25 flaring incidents, one every two weeks on average. 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The incident, along with another malfunction at the PBF Refinery in nearby Martinez, may also temporarily increase the average cost of gasoline in California, according to Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"John Gioia, Contra Costa County supervisor\"]‘I am angry and I’m upset and I am sick and tired of the community having to be put through this large number of continual flaring incidents.’[/pullquote]Over the past several years, Chevron’s Richmond facility has conducted the most flaring operations of any Bay Area refinery. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the eight months since hundreds of gallons of fuel from Chevron's Richmond oil refinery spilled into the bay, local air regulators and the state's workplace safety agency have issued a handful of violation notices against the oil giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither Chevron nor the agencies investigating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859660/chevron-richmond-refinery-spill-as-crews-mop-up-investigators-move-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Feb. 9 incident\u003c/a> has provided details about exactly what caused a pipeline on the refinery's wharf to spill as many as 750 gallons of low-sulfur diesel fuel, creating a sheen that spread for several miles across the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Richmond Councilmember Claudia Jimenez\"]'It's taking so long. 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It doesn't build trust with the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials have said that the best time to do an investigation is immediately after an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the process to hire a third-party consultant takes time, a good incident investigation is compromised,\" said Randy Sawyer, the county's deputy director of health services. \"This is why it was decided to review the investigation done by Chevron [to] determine the accuracy of their investigation.\"\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=\"news_11859660,news_11861741,news_11856920\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]In late August, the county signed a $95,000 contract with AcuTech Consulting Group, a company based in Virginia, which has \u003ca href=\"https://acutech-consulting.com/services/case-studies/process-safety-support-for-chevrons-capital-projects/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">worked with Chevron on several projects\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm could receive the refinery's root-cause analysis soon. Chevron representative Linsi Crain, along with Matt Kaufmann, the head of the county's hazardous materials program, both say the company is finalizing its findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crain says the company's investigation was slowed, in part, by the necessity to get permits to cut the portion of broken pipe before it could be taken out of the water and inspected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials have said that if there are any gaps or questions that come from reviewing Chevron's findings, the county can still conduct its own investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Office of Spill Prevention and Response is conducting yet another investigation into the spill. 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"content": "\u003cp>Local air regulators moved Wednesday to require two of California's largest oil refineries to significantly reduce the amount of pollution they spew into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board that oversees the Bay Area Air Quality Management District voted 19 to 3 to force Chevron's Richmond refinery and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbfenergy.com/refineries/\">PBF Energy-owned refinery in Martinez\u003c/a> to cut down on the particulate matter emitted by a key part of their plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote came after two separate days of hours-long hearings and threats of a lawsuit from the oil industry, along with pressure from environmentalists, health advocates, refinery workers and labor leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whatever we do we're going to face a legal challenge and that's the name of the game,\" said Nate Miley, a member of the board and an Alameda County supervisor. \"I want history to show, at least my vote, that I was on the side of protecting communities, putting the health of people above cost, above money, above refineries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To satisfy the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/rules-and-compliance/rules/reg-6-rule-5-particulate-emissions-from-refinery-fluidized-catalytic-cracking-units?rule_version=2020%20Amendment#:~:text=Description%3A,precursors%20of%20secondary%20particulate%20matter.,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new rules\u003c/a>, the two oil companies would most likely need to buy and install air pollution devices known as wet gas scrubbers at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"John Bauters, Bay Area Air Quality Management District board director\"]'Oil and gas companies have built a multi-billion dollar industry at the expense of largely Brown, Black, impoverished or politically under-represented communities for decades. They have externalized hazardous materials, pollution and waste onto the people we as a board collectively represent.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote is the culmination of work started by air district staff in 2019. Dozens of agency workers researched the proposal, worked with outside departments and took comments from the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's hearing was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878624/a-pivotal-moment-for-regulating-the-bay-areas-oil-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second\u003c/a> before the full board on the proposed rule. In early June, so many environmentalists, refinery workers, union officials and local residents offered public comment that the board had to delay the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all, more than 300 people spoke during the public comment periods of both meetings, according to the air district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Wednesday's public comment period, board director John Bauters, a member of the Emeryville City Council who chaired the district committee that first approved the rule, implored his colleagues to act aggressively to protect people who live near the region's refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oil and gas companies have built a multi-billion dollar industry at the expense of largely brown, Black, impoverished or politically underrepresented communities for decades,\" Bauters said. \"They have externalized hazardous materials, pollution and waste onto the people we as a board collectively represent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists and health advocates have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874932/air-regulators-weigh-plan-aimed-at-dramatically-cutting-bay-area-refinery-pollution\">urged\u003c/a> the board to approve the proposal. They emphasized the need to protect the health of residents who live near the refineries, many of whom are low-income people of color in areas with higher rates of respiratory disease. Refineries in other parts of the country use the wet gas scrubbers, they said, and the ones in the Bay Area could easily follow suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am asking the air district to stand with me for our mothers and our babies and to remain true to their mission,\" said Dr. Teresa Muñoz, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Richmond, at a press conference in late May held a few blocks from the Chevron refinery. \"Please keep your word.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Davina Hurt, Bay Area Air Quality Management District board director\"]'People are being asked to wait. It's very reminiscent to what my parents and their parents have heard living in the South... In this case you need to wait to breathe clean air. 'Wait' almost always means 'never.' 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They also said the large devices they may need to buy to satisfy the new rule use too much water and won't achieve the environmental gains predicted by the air agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement after the vote, Chevron said it has already reduced its particulate matter releases, argued those reductions were greater than the ones required under the new rule and indicated it might sue the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, rather than rely on actual data from our facility, Air Board Members adopted a rule based on erroneous data that fails to significantly improve local air quality at an extreme cost that could impact Bay Area consumers who rely on affordable energy in their daily lives,\" company spokesman Brian Hubinger said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rule threatens the supply of affordable, reliable and ever-cleaner energy at a time when our regional economy is still struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. 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