My heart goes out to poor Donald Trump.
Having invested heavily in the opportunity to replace a site of special scientific interest and of outstanding natural beauty with a luxury hotel, 500 private houses and 1000 holiday homes (as well as “the world’s greatest golf course”) he now finds that plans for an offshore wind farm, less than two kilometres from his links, have been submitted to Marine Scotland (“Trump defends wind farm fight?”, The Herald, September 16).
His contention that such a wind farm “should not be built or, alternatively, relocated” is perfectly fair. After all, his plans include a 400-bed hostel for workers: if I were a migrant worker who’d gone to the trouble of moving to Aberdeen for a job in Trumptown the last thing I’d want to be looking out over would be a wind farm.
Having been “repeatedly promised” by persons apparently unknown to the Scottish Government that wind farms would not be “destroying and distorting Aberdeen’s magnificent coastline” Mr Trump is quite right to feel aggrieved that this role might not be exclusively his.
Jim Thomson,
7 Dumbarton Road,
Bowling.
Does Donald Trump own Scotland? He appears to think so, trying as he does to dictate policies on environmental issues. The irony is, of course, that here is a man who flies regularly in his personal luxurious jet and does not recognise sites of scientific interest. A thinking person may not feel that he is well placed to describe anything as being environmentally irresponsible.
Aesthetically, a wind farm may be more attractive than the sight of a large hotel on the horizon. I do hope that our politicians make decisions based on environmental and moral issues, not on the whims and threats of a rich American.
Diana Montgomery,
11 Craigpark Place,
Ellon,
Aberdeenshire.
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