Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Presiding: Mayor Gayle McLaughlin · Called to order: 5:47 p.m. · 1 items · 11 votes · 6 public comments
What happened
- Denied appeals of Chevron's approved hydrogen refinery project 6-1 (Butt dissenting).
- Approved maternity leave for Councilmember Lopez from September through November.
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Consider appeals of approved Chevron refinery hydrogen project
In Plain English
The Planning Commission approved Chevron's project to build new hydrogen facilities at its Richmond refinery. Both Chevron and environmental group Communities for a Better Environment filed appeals challenging different aspects of this approval. The City Council now decides whether to uphold or overturn the Planning Commission's decision.
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Votes
Direct the city manager to summarize the agreement from Chevron for the benefit of the audience
8 to 1
Allow Councilmembers to question Dr. Walker
8 to 0
Extend the meeting for 30 minutes to 12:30 a.m.
0 to 1
Three-part motion to: (1) adopt staff's recommendations and add requirement that the City of Richmond develop a system for measuring emissions; (2) incorporate city attorney technical clean-up provisions for community benefits agreement; (3) incorporate provisions that Councilmember Viramontes has prepared in writing
Extend the meeting for 30 minutes, to 1:00 a.m.
0 to 1
Reverse the Planning Commission's certification of the EIR and to re-circulate the EIR addressing the full range of potential impacts from any potential change in the quality of crude oil or gas oil that is processed at the refineries, specifically addressing missing information identified in CBE's amended appeal of June 30, 2008
3 to 1
Certify the final EIR for the Chevron Renewal Project with modifications of Mitigation Measures 435(e) as previously described and adopted by the findings under the CEQA documents
6 to 3
Adopt the proposed feedstock quality conditions outlined in Attachment 5A to CBE's letter of May 29, 2008, to Lamont Thompson placing limits on the quality of crude oil after blending, the quality of gas oil after blending, the volume throughput of the Solvent Deasphalter (SDA), and the volume throughput of all the cracking units with quality limits equal to or greater than the annual average since Chevron's last retooling
Approve the CUP permit for the Chevron Renewal Project, adopt the findings in support and approval of the form of the draft resolution provided by the Planning Department as Attachment 3 to the Agenda Report with various modifications including conditions C12, C13, and consolidated flaring reporting measures
5 to 4
Extend the meeting until 2:00 a.m.
0 to 2
Approve the agreement with Chevron under which Chevron will provide certain benefits to the City of Richmond and its resident in the form of an agreement entitled the 'Richmond Community Benefits Agreement' as presented to the Council on July 16, 2008
6 to 1
Extend the meeting for 10 minutes
Close the public hearing
Extend the meeting for 15 minutes, amended to 30 minutes to 1:40 a.m.
0 to 1
Approved as a group without individual discussion.