Gulf Hotel

Oil Spill Funds STILL being used for Gulf Hotel

"different pot" of oil spill money being used.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Alabama is using BP funds to construct a multimillion-dollar beachfront hotel and conference center just weeks after a federal judge blocked the state from paying for the work with money from the oil giant. The director of the project, Cooper Shattuck, says the construction work under way at Gulf State Park is legal because the judge…