The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday, Nov. 24, edition that the City of Burnaby's bylaw battle against the Trans Mountain pipeline has been shut down by a British Columbia Supreme Court justice who has declared that the National Energy Board rules take precedence over the city's. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe reports that Metro Vancouver city has tried to hamper preliminary planning in advance of laying the 1,100-kilometre-long pipeline between Alberta and coastal British Columbia through two separate bylaws. Justice George Macintosh, however, said in a ruling Monday that the NEB has the constitutional power to direct or limit the enforcement of Burnaby's bylaws. Justice Macintosh said the energy board can take such action when city bylaws interfere with or block the regulation of the pipeline and expansion project, ruling NEB laws are supreme. "Where valid provincial laws conflict with valid federal laws in addressing interprovincial undertakings, paramountcy dictates that the federal legal regime will govern," Justice Macintosh said. Kinder's Ali Hounsell says the court's decision simply reaffirms earlier rulings upholding the NEB's jurisdiction.