IF AMERICAN TYCOON ABANDONS ABERDEENSHIRE PROJECT

Trump is biggest example of someone throwing

their toys out of the pram ...

Email from D Neal Stewart
While I am no fan of wind turbines I am not sure that the policy of the Scottish Government should be dictated to by an American billionaire who has not been elected to a position in the Scottish Parliament.  

One of the worst examples of wind turbine siting surely must be the wind turbine erected just outside the course boundaries at Royal Aberdeen's Balgownie Links? 

If Mr Trump (pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency) has evidence that Alex Salmond or anyone else in the Scottish Parliament/Government promised that no wind farm would be built offshore from the golf course he has built, then why doesn't he produce this evidence?  

He is not usually slow to go to the courts and it would seem appropriate for that evidence to be produced and tested before the Scottish Courts.  Surely he must either put up or shut up?

In any event I presume that the temporary clubhouse will have been given planning permission for a limited period only, presumably three years, and therefore will require to be demolished by early 2015.  

I also presume that his (Doonbeg) Castle/Clubhouse wi11 then require to be in place having been built over the coming year.  If Mr Trump walks away then this must be the biggest and best example ever of someone throwing their toys out of the pram.  

All the threats about compulsory purchase orders and uncertainty which arose for the house owners in the vicinity will therefore have been for nought. 

At the end of the day Mr Trump's much vaunted claim that Trump Links is the best course in the world is laughable.

Having played 544 courses in Scotland in my opinion it is not to be the best course in Scotland or even the best course in Aberdeenshire.

D Neal Stewart