The local BP office at the old Apalachicola High School is slated to be closed in August but the county commission is going to try to stop the closure.
The office was opened shortly after the BP oil spill to provide a place for local residents impacted by the spill to apply for BP payments.
County commissioners say they aren’t ready for the office to close and they have decided to write a letter to Kenneth Feinberg asking that the office stay open.
Mister Feinberg is the administrator of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Victim Compensation Fund
County commission chairman Noah Lockley said there are still people in this county who have not finished their business with BP and he wants the office to stay open until their job is done.
Commissioner Lockley said he doesn’t think local people need to be burning gas to deal with BP assistance and added that BP brought the problem to us we didn’t bring it to them.
The rest of the board agreed – the vote was unanimous to try to keep the local BP office open.
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