LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Governor Asa Hutchinson announced Wednesday (March 3) that he had created a new task force to review the state's reaction to the recent snowstorm.
The governor signed the proclamation to establish the Energy Resources Planning Task Force made up of the Secretary of the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment, the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission Director, the Director of the Arkansas Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board and the Secretary of the Department of Commerce.
The task force will review what happened during the snowstorm and how Arkansas' regional power administrations performed. It will also look at how utility companies performed and compare that to other states.
“This is the time to learn from what we went through in this historic storm,” Gov. Hutchinson said.
The governor says now is the time to determine what the state did right and what the state can improve on.
He says this will help the state properly prepare for the future.
Several rolling blackouts and shortages of water supply occurred throughout the state during last month's snowstorm.
You can watch Governor Asa Hutchinson's announcement below: