... the hike goes into effect Jan. 1. Former Arkla gas company executive Sheffield Nelson led a one-man charge to put ... reached a compromise in private discussions with gas company executives and secured enough support among legislators to ...

... Fayetteville shale play. If Beebe carried through, his proposal could compete with a measure proposed by former gas company executive Sheffield Nelson to raise the state's severance tax to 7 percent of the market value of natural gas at the time ...

LITTLE ROCK A former gas company executive says he plans to tweak the language of his proposal to raise the state's severance tax to meet objections by Attorney General ...

... increase is negotiable. The Ethics Commission adopted an advisory opinion in response to a request from former gas company executive Sheffield Nelson, who is seeking to place a proposal to raise the severance tax on the November ballot. Nelson ...

... industry would absolutely love is for us to go down divergent paths." Sheffield Nelson of Little Rock, former gas company executive who wants to raise the Arkansas severance tax.

... popularity. Some who normally would vote against raising taxes may consider Beebe's plan preferable to former gas company executive Sheffield Nelson's proposed initiated act, Parry said. Nelson's initiative would raise the severance tax ...

... committees on both sides within an hour of Beebe's speech during a joint session on Monday. The fact that Beebe and gas company executives agreed was better for both parties in the long run. As we're sure Beebe told industry leaders when he began ...

... gasoline for their important car trips because others were able to get the gas for their whimsical excursions. If gas company executives were not greedy and kept prices low, some other method besides prices would have to be used to allocate the existing ...

... Americans paying $3 per gallon at the pump have it relatively cheap when compared with prices globally, say oil and gas company executives who defend their record profits as essential to maintaining supplies. In parts of Europe and elsewhere in the ...

Sheffield Nelson, former gas company executive and twice failed Republican gubernatorial candidate, announced Friday that he will lead a campaign for an initiated act on the ...