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After a hard fight over a small project assigned bigsignificance by the contestants, the National Energy Board (NEB)has upheld the doctrine that has ushered pipeline competition intothe Canadian natural-gas community. An NEB panel under boardChairman Ken Vollman approved a new, producer-sponsored bypass ofthe TransCanada-Nova system in Alberta, rejecting pleas for thefederal agency to stop setting precedents favoring new entries intogas transportation.