Roby Brock: Welcome to this edition of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report. I’m your host, Roby Brock.
Today, we’ll talk about lithium — which Arkansas could be on the cusp of a lithium boom. It could benefit all parts of the state, but particularly South Arkansas. Today, I’ll sit down with Hugh McDonald, who’s Arkansas Secretary of Commerce, and Cheryl Edwards from Southern Arkansas University, who leads some workforce efforts in the lithium industry down in that region of the state. That’s today on the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report.
Arkansas is on the verge of a lithium boom, and an upcoming summit will be the second one that the state of Arkansas has held. I caught up with Hugh McDonald, Arkansas Secretary of Commerce, and Cheryl Edwards with Lithium Learns to learn more about the upcoming summit…