Donald Trump takes campaign against windfarms to UK supreme court
Donald Trump, the US presidential contender who has electrified the republican right, will bring his campaign against windfarms to the UK’s supreme court on Thursday. Despite losing at every stage in the Scottish courts, the billionaire property developer is funding a fresh challenge to prevent offshore turbines being built within sight of his Menie golf resort in Aberdeenshire.
In 2011, Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm Limited applied for consent under the Electricity Act 1989 to construct an electricity generating station and offshore wind turbines off Aberdeenshire. Permission was granted by the Scottish government in 2013 for 11 turbines, which Trump says will form a “monstrous” blight on the coastal landscape. He is questioning whether the planning decision is lawful. The turbines will be about two miles from the course.
In June, three senior judges in Edinburgh ruled that the allegations were unfounded and that Trump had no grounds for accusing Scottish ministers of illegally agreeing to license the experimental 100MW offshore windfarm.
After the ruling, Lang Banks, the director of WWF Scotland, said the appeal court’s ruling was welcome news for anyone interested in cutting carbon emissions; Trump had already lost attempts to block a major onshore windfarm on Shetland, the Viking project. “Once again the courts have seen through Trump’s flimsy, misguided attempts to frustrate Scotland’s ambition to create clean power and green jobs. It’s now time for Mr Trump to stop wasting anymore time and money on this case,” Banks said.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/08/donald-trump-takes-campaign-against-wind-farms-to-uk-supreme-court
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