Mississippi town goes easy on BP oil spill money
Moss Point, Miss., Mayor Aneice Liddell discusses why her city took such a relatively small amount from the fund created by British Pertroleum after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and what she thinks about how other governments spent their BP funds.
In the months after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last April, British Petroleum (BP) set aside $20 billion for Gulf Coast residents and municipalities affected by the spill. A recent Associated Press report calls into question how some local governments spent the BP money, but Moss Point, Miss., was mentioned as being fairly frugal in its spending.
Moss Point Mayor Aneice Liddell talked to American City & County about why her city took such a relatively small amount from the fund, and what she thinks about how other governments spent their BP funds.
