TO THE EDITOR:

In the spring issue of the Business Perspective of the Sam E. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, I read where “... the Fayetteville Shale has become one of the state’s most significant new economic engines and is projected to continue making a significant economic impact in Arkansas over the next five years.” This could also be said for the John W. Turk Jr. Power Plant in Fulton, Hempstead County, Ark.

The Turk Plant could generate much-needed jobs for the citizens of Fulton who have to drive elsewhere to work, generate business ...