UK Supreme Court rules against Trump over wind farm
Donald Trump has lost his fight to block the build of an offshore wind farm, off the cost of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Britain’s Supreme Court has ruled against Donald Trump in his battle to stop an offshore wind farm near his Scottish golf resort.
Trump, as expected, reacted in the most “Trumpian” way possible, calling the Scottish government “foolish, small minded and parochial”.
He was angry at the Scottish government approving plans for the renewable energy development within sight of his multi-million pound golf development north of Aberdeen.
However The Trump Organisation took the case to the Scottish courts on two separate occasions in a bid to get the application overturned.
Trump has said he would pull the plug on plans to further develop the resort near Balmedie if the wind farm project went ahead. The EOWDC will completely destroy the bucolic Aberdeen Bay and cast a awful shadow upon the future of tourism for the area.
Trump International Golf Club sought to judicially challenge the minister’s decision.
The petition was created on the British government’s official petitions website in response to Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.in the wake of the San Bernardino terror attacks.
“Third, this delay in the offshore wind demonstrator is deeply damaging to Scotland’s hopes of being on the cutting edge of that new technology”.
Scotland’s Energy Minister Fergus Ewing welcomed the judgement and said it would help position oil city Aberdeen “as the energy capital of Europe and a world energy centre”.
Scottish courts have repeatedly upheld the Scottish Government’s decision to grant planning permission for the scheme, made during Mr Salmond’s tenure as First Minister in 2013.
However, the ruling gives a boost to the UK’s renewable industry and resolves an issue that has been hanging over it for years, according to legal firm Pinsent Masons.
Since then, the once-harmonious relations between Trump, who speaks proudly of being half-Scottish and whose Gaelic-speaking mother hailed from Stornoway on the northern Isle of Lewis, and Scotland’s political elite have turned sour.
Sore about their defeat in court, Trump’s crack media team were unlikely to suffer Salmond’s intervention in silence.
Now he has been beaten in the UK Supreme Court, ” the former first minister added.
Donald Trump’s claim that pockets of London are so radicalised that the police do not dare enter them are “nonsense”, Theresa May has said.
The Trump Organisation spokesperson also made a reference to a recent painting unveiling that Mr Salmond had attended, arguing that the SNP MP should “go back to doing what he does best – unveiling pompous portraits of himself that pander to his already overinflated ego”.