Anti-fracking activists have been known to spread misinformation a time or two to distort the discussion on domestic energy production in their favor. That’s a fact demonstrated in films like Gasland or even more recently when Keep-It-In-the-Ground protesters faked getting hit by an SUV at a Bureau of Land Management meeting in Colorado. But those examples don’t even come close to what the New Jersey Sierra Club did this week when it released a press release claiming the PennEast Pipeline Co. submitted an alternative route for its proposed 118-mile natural gas pipeline.

The statement looks pretty legit considering the group even created a map of the new pathway for the pipeline, but spoiler alert: the alternative route doesn’t exist.

Yes, it would appear N.J. Sierra Club has taken a page right out of PennEnvironment’s playbook that a picture is worth a thousand words. Recall that Pakistani rig the latter group group claimed was under water in Pennsylvania during Hurricane Lee?

But we digress. The press release hasn’t been posted on the group’s website yet, but EID obtained a copy of it that can be found View Full Article