Beverly

In a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue criticized the Obama administration for its failure to provide more information on its draft five-year leasing program for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and to reach an agreement with coastal states on the sharing of royalties from offshore production.

People have been calling oil “black gold” at least since the days of Beverly Hillbilly Jed Clampett. Today, though, it really is; and that fact marks the multi-billion-dollar migration of investors from equities to commodities that has brought a bit of chaos to the energy trading patch.

People have been calling oil “black gold” at least since the days of Beverly Hillbilly Jed Clampett. Today, though, it really is; and that fact marks the multi-billion-dollar migration of investors from equities to commodities that has helped bring a bit of chaos to the energy trading patch.

Beverly Marshall, formerly a Washington representative forSouthern California Edison, has been named vice president andgeneral manager of federal government affairs for Duke Energy.