public convenience
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had allowed the company’s project to move forward in 2018 by granting PennEast a so-called certificate of public convenience and necessity, but lawsuits followed.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2021
"Hackney Council put a public convenience there. That's where the Banksy was painted - on the side of a little toilet block. "We've spoken to Hackney to try to find out exactly what happened.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2017
The public convenience had not been used for years and the previous owner had bought it from Hackney council, Ellis said.
From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2017
The board decided that the pipeline met the requirements of Iowa law requiring it to “promote the public convenience and necessity.”
From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2016
Even those railways which have exhibited the most “frightful examples” of financing and jobbing, have been found to prove of unquestionable public convenience and utility.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel
