Nucor challenges Big River

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Controversy has arisen both in Mississippi County and Little Rock concerning the proposed construction of Big River Steel's new mill south of Osceola. In an apparent attempt to influence legislators to vote against the upcoming project incentive funding through Amendment 82, Nucor Steel Arkansas has hired lobbyists to go to work at the capitol and sent an extensive memo to all legislators, which outlines the reasons why they believe the approval of funding for Big River would be a bad move for their company and the steel industry in Arkansas.

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