Richmond establishes deadline for Chevron to compensate city for refinery fire Richmond city leaders on Tuesday voted to enter talks with Chevron Corp. for a compensation package stemming from an Aug. 6 fire at the energy firm's local refinery and to hire a high-powered law firm if an agreement is not reached within 30 days.
Narrow, curving rivers and sloughs, faster boats, reckless behavior and the lack of mandatory boater education combine to make California's inland waterways more dangerous than the Pacific Ocean.
