US property tycoon Donald Trump will this week lodge a bid to seek a judicial review of the Scottish Government's decision to build a wind farm near his golf course north of Aberdeen.
Calling the case an "all-out challenge" to First Minister Alex Salmond, who he brands "Mad Alex", he says the plans to create the thousands of industrial wind farms are a disgrace.
Mr Trump has instructed his lawyers to file a writ at the Court of Session in Edinburgh "in the hope that sanity prevails and that the scheme will be scrapped".
The £230 million, 11-turbine European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre was approved by ministers in March this year and is to be sited one and-a-quarter miles off the Aberdeenshire coast.
Mr Trump, CEO of the New-York-based Trump Organisation, has been vocal in opposition to the proposal after he discovered the development would be close to his new £750m Aberdeenshire golf resort.
He said: "Wind farms are not only hideous, they kill birds and sea mammals, they destroy housing values, they are a danger to our health and tranquillity — and it is an absolute scam to claim that they save energy.
"This is a subject on which I reluctantly have become an expert: with the aid of a £34m European Union grant, Mad Alex's latest pet project is to be erected just off the beautiful stretch of coast where I am investing hundreds of millions of pounds in a major resort."
Mr Trump has released two anti-wind turbine adverts that were banned by the British Advertising Standards Authority.
A spokesman for the Scottish Government said: "The determination of planning applications is a matter for Aberdeenshire Council and any subsequent decisions of the Trump International a matter for that organisation.
"At the same time, the direction of energy policy in Scotland is a matter for the democratically elected Scottish Government.
"The Scottish Government is committed to the successful and sustainable development of an offshore wind sector, which could lead to a potential generation of over £7 billion to Scotland's economy and support up to 28,000 direct jobs and a further 20,000 indirect jobs by 2020."
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