IT IS ONE of Europe's most controversial energy projects and has faced a welter of public opposition.But the Nord Stream pipeline,which would eventually connect gasfields in northern Russia with consumers in Germany,has new momentum behind it.Russia's war with Georgia in August has reawakened the European Commission's worries about energy security.And despite thejjlow it delivered to Moscow's reputation-in European capitals,the Commission has responded,for the first time,by accepting Gazprom's thesis:that pipelines are more secure when they do not pass through transit countries.
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