GCBC rejects House BP plan

GCBC rejects legislature’s BP plan GULFPORT, Miss. – Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Business Council rejected the Legislature’s third attempt to pass a bill (HB 1185) to determine who gets what parts of the $700M in BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill restoration monies. About 66 percent of GCBC opinion poll voters didn’t like the House’s version of the bill to give 35 percent of the BP monies to non-coastal Mississippi communities, and 65 percent to the coast. The legislature kicked the ball down the road because 2019 is an election year, and members decided to try again next year rather than to ask Gov. Phil Bryant to call a special session. (Source: Sun Herald 03/27/18)