Alabama ad uses BP funds for containing spill damage to say beaches not suffering spill damage

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts2703
Alabama unveiled a new tourism ad Thursday touting its "gorgeous beaches" and delicious seafood. That's great news for anyone who was worried about the BP oil spill's impact on the Alabama coastline — it looks like the state dodged a bullet.

But there's more here than meets the eye — beginning with BP's funding of the ad. The ad, featuring Alabama chef Lucy Buffett, was financed from a $15 million payment BP made to Alabama last month to help "mitigate the economic impact of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico" and shore up tourism. (It was part of a $70 million commitment to the Gulf states.)

[BR_Parkway]

1. How is it that the story directly contradicts the headline? It says specifically

that the money was made to "mitigate the economic impact of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico" and shore up tourism. " - not a word about it supposed to have been used to contain spill damage

[conscious evolution]

2. 70 million?

What happened to the other 30 million british petroleum said they gave the gulf states?

[Child_Of_Isis]

3. The update at the bottom says the beaches are closed.

Lying is not going to help these states any. The ad is very deceptive.

[geardaddy]

4. Yep.

I feel for the people in the tourism business, but to lie to people to get them to come is just disgusting.

[Child_Of_Isis]

5. Most likely it protects BP too.

It's not like you could legally go after BP for oil damage after touting clean beaches in national ads.

Blood money is all that is.