Bronx residents outraged as $97 million golf course planned by Donald Trump is belching Methane

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BY GREG B. SMITH AND DANIEL BEEKMAN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS


High levels of explosive methane gas have been discovered next to Bronx homes that abut a dump the city is turning into a golf course for Donald Trump, a Daily News investigation has found.
As construction of the $97 million links has accelerated this year, methane in quantities the state considers potentially volatile has been repeatedly detected in test wells just yards away from homes.
Residents of this working-class neighborhood had no idea — and weren’t too pleased.
“That concerns me. What are we breathing?” asked Stephanie Machuca, whose Balcolm Ave. condo sits about 25 feet from a green-capped well that registered excessive amounts of methane in May.


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[Tigress DEM]

1. Hey, wait, there is your new "clean (if somewhat stinky) energy" supply!!

Turn it into housing for the poor and give them jobs at the methane plant that will need to be built there.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. Belching Methane is what Trump does. What did they expect?

[Scuba]

3. Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner!!!!!!!!!!

[mopinko]

4. where was the methane going before?

this needs to be trapped, but landfill full of uneaten food give off a lot of methane. i don't think there is anything simple about this.

[Warpy]

5. Exactly, the landfill is what's generating the methane

and they need to harvest it or burn it off, probably the latter.

Trump's SOL on that golf course, IMO, unless he packages those burnoff pipes as a fancy lighting system for night golf.