ALBANY CLEAN GREEN TASK FORCE THINKS
THERE MIGHT BE SOME...............
METHANE GAS AT THE BULB!!
The Albany Clean Green Task Force recently suggested that there be some
methane gas at the Bulb. In case you haven’t heard, this is flammable
stuff, and in actual fact, a fire did smolder inside the Bulb for a while
in the early days.
However, we are advised by local technical people and city officials of
high standing that there is now no danger whatsoever at the bulb. And a
prominent local dog owner had this to say: “I take my American Kennel
Club Champion wiener dog, Oscar Meyer III, to the Bulb all the time and
don’t worry about it a bit. Oscar does fine there, and so I think that
all those other scraggly mutts I always see there should do just fine
too.”
But the “Albany 500”, a group of concerned scientists and
environmentalists, have their doubts. They believe that a huge colony of
Burrowing Owls has made its home down inside the Bulb (deemed quite
possible by local Audubon Society experts) and that the guano from these
owls is generating the methane. A spokesman for the group stated;
“Although we believe the situation is serious, we cannot, unfortunately,
do anything about the thousands of owls down there. It is against the law
because they are so rare and endangered.”
Albany 500 is, however, in the process of writing a report on the
situation, and hopes to submit it to the U.N. in gthe near future. “We
are doing this in order to head off a increasingly dangerous situation as
the owl colony thrives and experiences a population explosion. If the
methane were also to explode, the Neck would become a ‘Causeway To
Nowhere’ and we wouldn’t want that. Of course, on the positive side, the
owls keep going to the bathroom down there all the time, so if we could
find a use for it, this methane would qualify as a renewable source of
energy.”