by - March 21, 2016 3:36 pm
Arkansas’ rig count remained at zero from January through March as the oil and gas industry continue to shed jobs across the board. In February, severance tax revenue fell to…
by - October 22, 2015 2:09 pm
With crude oil prices languishing in the $40-$50 range for months now, losses in related revenue sources that underpin energy states’ budgets are on the rise, according to a new…
by - August 20, 2012 3:15 pm
The deadline for additional signatures for a November campaign to raise the state’s severance tax will pass and the effort will come to an end for now. Sheffield Nelson said…
by - August 17, 2012 12:46 pm
Scott Ellington — the Jonesboro Prosecutor and First District Democratic Congressional nominee — called for two law enforcement investigations into suspicions of fraudulent signatures on two separate ballot initiatives. For…
by - July 24, 2012 7:04 pm
Sheffield Nelson said he would “suspend” his campaign to raise the state’s severance tax to a flat 7%. Nelson, whose organization is called the Committee for A Fair Severance Tax,…
by - July 19, 2012 5:20 pm
An effort to raise the severance tax to a flat 7% has failed to meet the signature threshold to be placed on the November ballot, but supporters will be given…
by - June 20, 2012 5:09 pm
Opponents of an increase in the state’s natural gas severance tax say a new study shows that raising the tax would be detrimental to the gas industry in Arkansas. The…
by - June 13, 2012 3:42 pm
Former gas company executive Sheffield Nelson said his plan to raise Arkansas’ severance tax to 7% will make the ballot and won’t scare off natural gas drillers. To back up…
by - June 11, 2012 3:47 pm
Arkansas Municipal League director Don Zimmerman issued an email Monday (June 11) to advocates of a hike in the severance tax on natural gas and warned that the petition campaign…
by - June 5, 2012 3:07 pm
Job creation and investment related to the Fayetteville Shale Play have topped 2008 predictions of $17.9 billion in economic activity between 2008 and 2012. A study released Tuesday (June 5)…
by - May 28, 2012 10:22 am
If proponents of a higher severance tax gather enough signatures, that measure may be presented to Arkansas voters on the November background. The severance tax proposal, if approved, will raise…
by - May 12, 2012 12:13 pm
The Perryman Group, a Waco-based research firm, released its economic study of raising Arkansas’ severance tax rates on natural gas — a proposal being pushed by former gas exec Sheffield…
by - March 30, 2012 4:18 pm
Randy Zook, president and CEO of the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce, thinks Arkansas could be “one of the largest energy producing states in the country,” if it “doesn’t do…
by - February 18, 2012 4:21 pm
The group opposing former gas executive Sheffield Nelson’s severance tax proposal, Arkansans for Jobs & Affordable Energy, has gotten very serious, very fast. In its January monthly report filed a…
