The Renewable Energy “Ventilator Death” Legislator Lied About Tennessee Gas Pipeline

“We’ve never had any issue with it. Nobody knows it’s there.”

Previously, I wrote about how Assemblyman Auth (R-Bergen/Passaic) used disgraceful fear mongering to attack renewable energy (i.e. turn off hospital ventilators), spouted climate denial science, and distortions and lies about energy economics.

But I omitted one of his most egregious lies about the Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP), which runs through his district.

Auth not only praised TGP, he denied any adverse impacts.

In explaining his vote to oppose the FERC Resolution, Assemblyman Auth stated:

We’re talking about these pipelines. And its not like I live somewhere where we’re not exposed to any of this. We have the Tennessee pipeline that runs through my town. It runs through other towns in the District I represent. And we’ve never had any issue with it. Nobody knows it’s there. Once its in its done. It’s a bucolic area to live. We don’t have any problem with it….This is a clean, economic way to go. We should be doing this.

The Assemblyman is from Ringwood. He needs to get out more often – or just read the Bergen Record, who reported on the extensive damage cause by the TGP, or talk to the North Jersey Pipeline Walkers in his district.

Take a look at the damage the TGP caused to Auth’s neighbors at Lake Lookover in West Milford.

TGP crosses lake look over, West Milford, NJ

And a few miles west, look at the damage in Vernon, NJ:

TGP pipeline, Vernon NJ

And look at the sinkhole collapse a few more miles west in Montague NJ:

sinkhole caused by TGP, Montague, NJ

Assemblyman Auth is either ignorant or a flat out liar.

Either way, shame on him – and the voters of the 39th District who elected him.