“The provisions would have required Chevron to give a total of $1 million a year to the city’s construction training program, summer youth employment and an industrial arts training academy; create an urban forest in the city; and provide semiannual reports to the Richmond Neighborhood Coordinating Council, which is a coalition of neighborhood groups.”
....this means CVX has got to pay off black & hispanic “activists” as well as class warfare groups like ACORN...
I’m a CVX shareholder and I’m going to write the CEO and tell him “no payola” to the Marxists and instead up my quarterly dividend....
“The provisions would have required Chevron to give a total of $1 million a year to the city’s construction training program, summer youth employment and an industrial arts training academy; create an urban forest in the city”
That is extortion and blackmail on the part of the local Govt.
If anyone but the Govt was doing it, it would be a felony.