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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump says he'll not finish building his luxury Scottish golf resort if a wind farm is built nearby!
Is Trump just bluster about wind farm?
January 18, 2012
American billionaire Donald Trump vowed to abandon his $1.2 billion luxury Scottish golf resort if the government allowed a proposed wind farm to be built nearby.
The real-estate mogul believes that if plans for 11 turbines in northeastern Scotland's Aberdeen Bay go ahead, it would spoil the views from his resort, the Trump International Golf Links, which is less than two miles away at Menie Estate, Balmedie.
He told Scottish newspaper The Press and Journal he would not spend "another penny" on the estate until he was certain the offshore renewable energy project would be built elsewhere.
The plans for a clubhouse also were blasted as "gross" and "not worthy of Disneyland" by one of Scotland's best-known architects, Andy MacMillan, in September 2011.
http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/Donald-Trump-vows-to-drop-Scottish-golf-project-if-wind-farm-is-built-011812
Good! Let Trump lose most of his 1.2 billion dollar investment. Send Trump packing along with his rich friends who planned on using his golf course! BBI
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)Build and he won't come!
RZM
(8,556 posts)I drove to and from Chicago last weekend and noticed that huge wind farm they have in northwestern Indiana. I thought it was pretty cool.
Of course, I'm not a real estate mogul, so I don't know what they do to property values. But I think they're cool
guitar man
(15,996 posts)By that thing on his head ...
Better Believe It
(18,630 posts)TlalocW
(15,384 posts)Support for wind farms jumps 300% in Scotland.
TlalocW
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)get a taxpayer bailout. Could it be that this huge Windbag of a man is afraid of being "out-winded" by some wind farm?
You know how competitive he is and how he hates to be bested at anything. God, this man is annoying!
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Historic NY
(37,451 posts)bleating his gums.
rucky
(35,211 posts)where's your imagination, Trump?
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)a great place for a wind farm
I think he better start getting used to it.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Mopar151
(9,989 posts)To the prime wind farm location in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom - an old radar station with the roads, etc already in, so the impact to the local enviroment would be minimal.
And I like seeing the windmills, too - sure as hell looks better than a strip mine or fracking wells.
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)bankruptcy?
MichaelMcGuire
(1,684 posts)By panting the turbines to look like flowers...
Capitalocracy
(4,307 posts)Because he's a principled man who stands by his convictions, even when it means losing money on an investment.