Alabama Plans Beach Hotel, Improvements With Oil Spill Funds

Alabama is moving forward with plans to use oil spill settlement funds to build a 350-room hotel and conference center that can handle groups of up to 1,500 people. The state argues that the facility will bring people back to the beach where tourism took a blow during the 2010 oil spill and cleanup. [...] environmentalists have filed a lawsuit to block the project, saying a hotel development isn't a proper use of funds meant to restore the coast after the largest oil spill in United States history. Building a hotel and convention center is plainly not an action that will restore, rehabilitate, replace, or acquire the equivalent of injured natural resources or services, and the Federal Trustees do not even try to explain how building a convention center qualifies as a restoration project, Gulf Restoration Network wrote in the lawsuit. The state's argument for using the BP oil spill funds for hotel construction is that people lost recreation time at the beach during the spill when park visitation plummeted to a fraction of normal levels in the summer of 2010.

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