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BEIJING, Nov 19- The number of new hydropower projects in China could surge as the country's populist premier Wen Jiabao retires and a new leadership team races to meet ambitious 2020 energy goals. Projects such as the $59 billion Three Gorges Dam have been the focus of criticism over the social and environmental cost China is paying for development.
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HOUSTON/ NEW YORK, Nov 16- An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast exploded on Friday, leaving two people missing and badly injuring several others, recalling the horror of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. The fire ignited when workers were welding a pipe on the deck of the shallow-water platform operated by Houston- based Black Elk Energy.
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*Coast Guard says will likely not close Mississippi River. Water levels on that stretch are forecast to drop to nine feet or less by early December as drought conservation measures will reduce the flow of water from the Missouri River and its reservoir system into the Mississippi.
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*Coast Guard says will likely not close Mississippi River. An official closure is unlikely, but the river could become too shallow next month for most commercial vessels to transit a busy section from St. Louis to Cairo, Illinois, as drought measures stem the inflow of water from the Missouri River.
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Nov 16- An outright closure of the Mississippi River to commercial traffic between St. Louis and Cairo, Illinois, is unlikely, but falling water levels are expected to prompt shipping restrictions at some point, a U.S. Coast Guard commander said Friday.
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*Mississippi River may close from St. Louis to Cairo, IL. Nov 15- The possible closure of the Mississippi River to navigation because of low water has sent prices soaring for grain destined for export from the Gulf of Mexico, grain traders said.
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CAIRO, Nov 15- Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris, now seeking to buy a big stake in Telecom Italia, has won admirers for his risk appetite and straight talk, but his blunt approach has also often put him in hot water with business partners and Islamists in Egypt.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 14- The scenes rolling in from the New Jersey shore are devastating, and not just to the people whose homes were destroyed. Also damaged are the ``retire with a water view'' dreams of others who had aspired to vacation property and may have been thinking about beach real estate- until they saw what a storm like Sandy can do.