State agencies request millions from BP to offset impact of Gulf oil spill ($757 million)

[highplainsdem]

Source: Times-Picayune

State agencies request millions from BP to offset impact of Gulf oil spill
By Kia Hall Hayes, The Times-Picayune
May 29, 2010, 5:30PM

Calling the economic losses stemming from the Gulf oil spill "a formidable challenge" that requires BP's assistance and cooperation, multiple state agencies have requested that BP allocate hundreds of milions of dollars to mitigate the spill's economic effects and to implement a long-term seafood safety plan.

Agencies including the Louisiana departments of Social Services, Health and Hospitals, and Wildlife and Fisheries, along with the Louisiana Workforce Commission, Louisiana Economic Recovery, and Louisiana Economic Development sent the requests in two separate letters.

The first, sent Friday, asks BP to establish a fund, with an initial $300 million deposit, to help mitigate the immediate, short and long-term impacts on affected businesses and individuals. The programs will provide financial assistance and technical support, as well as a mechanism to analyze the economic impacts of the oil spill.

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The second letter, sent today, asks BP to contribute $457 million to help implement a 20-year seafood safety plan.

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Read more: http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/state_agencies_request_300_mil.html

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Editing to add the amount of these initial requests to the subject line, since "millions" understates it so much.

[IScreamSundays]

1. that out to go over well. No pun intended nt

[dipsydoodle]

2. I don't think so much they will reject the applications

more that will require justification for the sums mentioned and doubtless they will audit the expenditure given they are not complete dumbfucks ploughing money into Iraq for example.