It Was Good of Us to Send Trump Over to Sort You People Out
The Scotsman - Trump threat to ditch £300m Scottish golfing resort
His mother was born on Lewis. That explains so much.
[He] warned his championship course, five-star hotel, golf academy and 500 holiday homes would be scrapped unless proposals for a nearby offshore wind farm were abandoned.
He said his Trump Organisation had chosen the location - an 800-acre stretch of sand dunes on the Menie Estate, near Balmedie - after looking at 211 rival sites around the world, and that he would pull out of the deal immediately if it became mired in planning concerns.
“Either this will happen very quickly or it won’t happen at all,” he said yesterday in an exclusive interview with The Scotsman in his office on the 26th floor of the Trump Tower in Manhattan.
“This is a unique opportunity for the Scottish economy,” he said. “This will be the greatest course in the world.”
But in a robust conversation he expressed concern that “ocean views” from the planned development might be obscured by an offshore wind farm in Aberdeen Bay.
“Robust” they call it. Hee hee. Ah, that’s our Donald.
He denied his resort would impact on existing courses, such as Royal Aberdeen. “They have a great course, but are limited by the land they have. We have a great piece of land. There is room for more courses, but no room for mediocrity. I never like to get disappointed but we want to build a great course in Europe and I’d prefer it to be in Scotland. If we don’t get to do this, we have too many other things on our plate. We’ll just move on.”
April 1st, 2006 at 2:00 am
“This is a unique opportunity for the Scottish economy,” he said. “This will be the greatest course in the world.” I thought they already had the greatest course in the world - both of them.
April 1st, 2006 at 9:54 am
Don’t argue with the Donald.
April 2nd, 2006 at 7:00 am
There’s lots of greatest courses in the world in Scotland - it’s their unique selling points.
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:17 am
And I bet they were all built before the advent of wind farms and planning commissions.
I don’t see why they don’t line the highways with single rows of windmills. Make the best use of already blighted space. Look quite interesting, I think.
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:56 am
You’re right, they stuck a wind farm on top of a really boring bit of moorland on the A68 and it’s the most interesting thing for miles.
April 3rd, 2006 at 9:50 am
There’s one near home on the way between one highway and another and it’s through the hills (lovely round hills) and all of a sudden you’re in a wind farm, which has been there forever and never seem to be turning much, but then it’s usually summer when we’re there and maybe it’s windier at other times, but I always thought it was really neat looking. But then there’s nothing else there and it’s such a cramped little space that there couldn’t be anything else besides the road and the windmills, so it’s not likely that anyone’s going to build a golf club that can see them.
April 3rd, 2006 at 4:11 pm
I wish wind power concentrations would get a new name, I worry the US DOA will see fit to send county agents and subsidies to the e-farms otherwise.
Olde US DOA joke…..
Newbie DOA employee to olde…
Newbie: Why are you crying? Oldie: My farmer died!
April 4th, 2006 at 1:19 am
LOL!