Donald Trump: Bad news in turbine fight

This news will be a blow to Trump, who has consistently opposed the plans for the wind farm, which he maintains will spoil the coastal views from Trump International Golf Links Scotland. His most recent legal challenge was thrown out by the UK Supreme Court in December 2015.

“History will judge those involved unfavorably” – Donald Trump

In a statement issued following that ruling, the Trump Organisation said: “The EOWDC (European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre) will completely destroy the bucolic Aberdeen Bay and cast a terrible shadow upon the future of tourism for the area,” continued the statement. “History will judge those involved unfavorably and the outcome demonstrates the foolish, small minded and parochial mentality which dominates the current Scottish Government’s dangerous experiment with wind energy.”

However, Andy Paine, the project director for Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Ltd, described the ruling as ‘another significant step forward for the EOWDC’.

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Donald Trump, currently campaigning to become the next president of the USA, has previously described wind power as ‘unattractive’, adding that it ‘doesn’t work, kills thousands of birds every year, reduces the value of homes, and requires massive subsidising, which comes direct from taxpayers’. On another occasion, he described the plans for the wind farm as an act of ‘public vandalism’.

He has also ordered that all future work at his Aberdeenshire development – which includes plans for an on-site hotel and second championship golf course – be halted until such times as plans for the wind farm are withdrawn.

Based on today’s news, that appears to be an ever-diminishing prospect.

Donald Trump vs the Wind Farm: Who do you side with?

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Michael McEwan is the Deputy Editor of bunkered and has been part of the team since 2004. In that time, he has interviewed almost every major figure within the sport, from Jack Nicklaus, to Rory McIlroy, to Donald Trump. The host of the multi award-winning bunkered Podcast and a member of Balfron Golfing Society, Michael is the author of three books and is the 2023 PPA Scotland 'Writer of the Year' and 'Columnist of the Year'. Dislikes white belts, yellow balls and iron headcovers. Likes being drawn out of the media ballot to play Augusta National.

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