Eyeing energy supplies from opposite ends of a telescope

Major analysis feature. With only days to go before the Group of Eight summit in St Petersburg, July 2006 high-level officials were still struggling to agree a common text on energy security, the top item on their leaders' agenda. No doubt they will succeed in finding a form of words to paper over their differences. But the problem in agreeing more than platitudes is that they are looking at energy security from opposite ends of the telescope.

University of Toronto: G8 Information Centre http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/

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