Court Opinion

ID: 9421850
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:00:10.417607+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:32.811870
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Harlan,
whom Mr. Justice Frankfurter joins, concurring.
I agree with the judgment of the Court'on the ground that the findings upon which the Commission based its conclusion that the public convenience and. necessity' required the issuancé to petitioners of unconditional final certificates find no support in the record. There is no evidence supporting what appear to be the crucial findings that (1) “the public served through the Tennessee Gas system is greatly in need of increased supplies of natural gas,” particularly insofar as this finding implies that this need is immediate and cannot be satisfied from Tennessee’s existing reserves, and that (2) there was serious danger that producer petitioners’ gas would be permanently-lost to the interstate market unless an unconditional . certificate were granted on their terms. This makes it unnecessary to consider at this stage any of the other questions sought to be presented by the parties.