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US TYCOON Donald Trump will warn the Scottish Parliament this week that his plans to build a luxury hotel alongside his Aberdeenshire golf course will be axed if ministers back a series of insane wind turbines nearby.
The billionaire property developer will appear at Holyrood on Wednesday to attack the Scottish Governments renewable energy proposals, accusing Alex Salmond of destroying the countrys natural heritage.
His championship golf course, ten miles north of Aberdeen, is scheduled to open as planned in July, but the entrepreneurs senior representative said additional plans for a major hotel and housing development could not co-exist with an offshore wind farm planned for the coastal waters nearby.
George Sorial, vice president of The Trump Organisation, said: If there is an industrial power plant on the shore line, the concept of having a luxury hotel and resort is simply incompatible. The two cant co-exist.
Sorials comments throw fresh doubt on the 500-hectare development, along with the job hopes of the thousands of workers which the Trump Organisation claims will be needed to build the entire project.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/lose-wind-farm-or-lose-my-hotel-warns-donald-trump-1-2248786
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)They see him as generating more wind than the turbines.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Taylor Smite
(86 posts)Kennah
(14,276 posts)When you read the title, you probably get to thinking, "Does that somehow enhance the performance of the windfarm?"
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)This nut believes that golf and a hotel is so important that they would do with less power? Really?
MichaelMcGuire
(1,684 posts)Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)my greatgrandfather was Irish with a maternal bloodline that finds it's beginning in Little Cumbrae, Ayshire Scotland! I am VERY mixed and am what you would probably call "black". That's why I do not understand hatred based on anything other than a personal affront. LOL!! Whether we're aware of it or not, NONE of us are what we would call "pure" anything except human.
My family maintain ties with the European side quite closely.
MichaelMcGuire
(1,684 posts)Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)AdHocSolver
(2,561 posts)If Trump doesn't want to build his hotel, he will lose money on the golf course.
On the other hand, some other investors may decide to build a hotel.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Let the Donald pull out and lose money on his golf course or let someone else build the hotel . . . I hope this is what happens.
MichaelMcGuire
(1,684 posts)What got my back up, was apart from the attitude that there's nothing my money can't buy. Was his personal attacks saying Mr Forbes lived in a slum. Not realising that Mr Forbes home is the norm for most rural working class Scots.
http://www.trippinguptrump.com/
Fearless
(18,421 posts)MichaelMcGuire
(1,684 posts)Darth_Kitten
(14,192 posts)What a smug, empty-headed son of a bitch.
Kaleva
(36,312 posts)The Michigan side of Lake Michigan has some of the best potential wind farm sites in the country but local residents are fighting every proposal.
marmar
(77,081 posts)Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)Let the bad hair man go with a hearty "piss-off", you need energy far more than you need his ilk.
polly7
(20,582 posts)Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)Fuck ye off ya lit'le bugger.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)He's really a revolting human being.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Taylor Smite
(86 posts)1. Fox News and talk radio would call Trump a champion of the people.
2. The municipality would publicly apologize and immediately cancel the project and pull all funding from the program.
3. The municipality would offer Trumps hotel an indefinite tax holiday.
4. The municipality would promise Trump that all labor would be welfare-to-work and minimum wage would be fair.
5. The schools in the area fail per lack of tax dollars. People become poorer and must rely on food pantries.
6. Trump is considered a successful businessman who should be celebrated.
MindMover
(5,016 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)Denzil_DC
(7,242 posts)Here's an article from June 2011:
Donald Trump has been forced to postpone his plan to create the "world's greatest" golf resort in Scotland, complete with five-star hotel and luxury villas, because of the global financial crisis.
The billionaire property developer flew into Aberdeen on Monday on his latest luxury jet, a Boeing 757-200 fitted out with a master bedroom and five kitchens, to announce that his championship standard 18-hole golf course overlooking the North Sea would open for play in July next year.
... the tycoon said that the full scheme, a £750m complex featuring a luxury hotel, Trump Boulevard, a golf academy, a second course and timeshare apartments, had been bunkered by the recession.
Trump said "the world has crashed" since he first bought the Menie estate and dunes in 2005, provoking a long-running battle with local residents, councillors and environmental groups about his proposals, which has involved heavily altering the legally protected rare dunes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/20/donald-trump-golf-resort-scotland
So convenient that he's found an excuse to justify yet another of his grand schemes collapsing, while covering his ass and getting a chance to do some grandstanding. Idiot.