BP Officials Agree To Meet On Aid For Seafood Industry

Lt. Gov. Scott Angelle said Wednesday he will meet with three "senior-level" officials of BP today to press the state's demands for $75 million from the oil giant to help market Louisiana's seafood and tourism industries that have been hit hard by the Deepwater Horizon-BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Angelle said that two letters he wrote BP officials — the first July 26 and a follow-up letter Sept. 15 — got no response.

Share Angelle said he wrote a pithy e-mail to Larry Thomas, BP's general manager of public and governmental affairs, on Wednesday morning. Aides said Thomas didn't send an e-mail reply, but BP officials called to set up the meeting, scheduled for 10 a.m. in the lieutenant governor's office in the Capitol Annex in Baton Rouge.

In the e-mail to Thomas, Angelle pointed out his first two missives got no response. He also told Thomas that he has been invited to testify Tuesday at a presidential commission in Washington, D.C., that is looking into the oil spill and its effects on tourism and other issues.

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