Donald Trump pledges 'any legal means' fight against windfarm

[alp227]

Source: The Guardian

Donald Trump has pledged to use "any legal means" to block the building of an offshore windfarm near his championship golf course in Aberdeenshire, claiming the development would spoil his view.

The proposed windfarm in Aberdeen Bay, about 1.5 miles from the golf resort, would install the next generation of offshore wind turbine technology.

The £200m energy scheme has just been formally submitted to Marine Scotland for approval. It has been cut back from up to 33 turbines to a maximum of 11 after safety concerns were raised by shipping agencies and Aberdeen heliport, the world's busiest, which serves the North Sea oil industry.

Trump, who hopes to open his first course at the Menie estate, near Balmedie, next July, in a development spanning about 500 hectares (1,235 acres), has renewed his long-standing complaints about the project. He believes the smaller proposal is still unacceptable: some of the turbines could stand up to 195 metres in the water, more than double the height of the Big Ben clock tower.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/05/donald-trump-legal-fight-windfarm

[FSogol]

1. Of course the wind farms would be unnecessary if we could harness the bluster from Trumpy's piehole.

:shrug:

[AmericaIsGreat]

12. LOL n/t

[Altoid_Cyclist]

2. Maybe now the "Donald" will realize what he's been doing during his life.

One man's "development" is another man's eyesore or destruction of the environment.

It's funny how he never noticed that before.....

[onehandle]

3. I'm convinced. Build twice as many, right on the shore, and stick one up his ass. nt

[Roland99]

15. +1

[GaltFreeDiet]

22. +1

[Tiggeroshii]

4. To be fair, the Kennedys were also against the creation of offshore windfarms.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/7648857/US-approves-first-offshore-wind-farm-despite-Kennedy-opposition.html

[ProgressiveProfessor]

10. They were as NIMBYish as many of the rich. I was very disappointed

[No Elephants]

27. That's your mistaken assumption. They had very valid reasons for opposing in that particular spot.

I oppose it and I don't even own property anywhere near Cape Cod.

[AtheistCrusader]

32. Sure they did.

Oh no, not a navigable hazard that can be easily navigated around, like a shoreline.

[FogerRox]

43. Not the point, the Atlantic Wind connection from Elizibeth NJ to Virginia Beach Virginia

places all it turbines far enough offshore to not be visible, over a backbone of HVDC cables 350 miles long, feeding to the land based grid. Its a smart well thought out project.

This project Cape Wind is not, its smaller, and is sited for connivence to existing underwater cables, and an existing shoal area that makes construction easier in shallow water. In fact its shoe horned into a relatively small area bordered by air and shipping routes.

http://www.capewind.org/article7.htm

[FogerRox]

44. Cape Wind is sited poorly, see my other comment Re Atlantic Wind Connection.

There is plenty of room



Cape Wind is shoe horned into a space surrounded by shipping

http://www.capewind.org/article7.htm

[SpankMe]

24. Both the Kennedys and Trump are wrong. n/t

[No Elephants]

28. Nope. Only Trump.

[No Elephants]

26. Not true. Only off Nantucket.. Cape Cod is a fragile ecosystem.

If you will note Scott Brown also opposed it, as did local First American tribes.

[FogerRox]

42. How far is the continental shelf off Mass?

Atlantic Wind Connection uses a 350 mile long HVDC offshore trunkline, situating the turbines 18 miles or more. out of sight from shore. the turbines off Cape Cod are only 5 miles offshore.

[droidamus2]

5. Oh yes

and the view of self-centerd multi-millionaires should override any need for the rest of us to get off of fossil fuels and go with renewable resources. The arrogance of the moneyed class in this country knows no bounds they truly believe the country is here for them and we lower and middle class people are here just to serve them and do all the dirty work that they think is below them.

[russspeakeasy]

6. I am for anything that trump is against.

[plumbob]

14. Yep,

I don't believe you can go wrong with that.

Now, which looks better:

This:



or this:

[russspeakeasy]

16. That's excellent...................

:toast:

[marasinghe]

30. nice; & says it all. doesn't even need the semi-obligatory pix of the Frump's hairline. n/t

[and-justice-for-all]

7. What a fucking piece of shit!!! really?? spoil the view??!!!

what empty reasoning that is shit is. TOUGH SHIT FUCKER.

[bluevoter4life]

8. Wonder if he'd feel the same...

...if you replaced "windfarm" with "oil rig".....Just sayin'

[SpiralHawk]

9. Trumpy is a Compleat RepubliCon. A greedy short-sighted totalitarian tiddlebopper

Ptooooey on another pathetic Republicon 'hero' with Massive Soul Sickness, D. Trump.

[asjr]

11. All Trump has to do is stand in the middle

of the estate and open his mouth. That would produce enough wind to furnish power to the entire British Isles.

[Permanut]

13. And if they removed that unsightly ocean

He could make the golf course even bigger. What a bunwad.

[no_hypocrisy]

17. Trump's not in America and doesn't have the leverage and connections

in Scotland or the UK. He lost a lot of good will with his tantrums regarding his golf course.

[truthisfreedom]

18. What's wrong with people? Wind farms are so beautiful! I love them. They're moving sculpture

that generates power without pollution... they're the future! God, people are so fucking stupid. If he claimed that they were beautiful instead, and fought for more of them rather than less, he'd really be doing something for the world.

[AlbertCat]

25. Wind farms are so beautiful! I love them. They're moving sculpture

Yes... they can be awesome.



They certainly look better than a nuclear plant.



And then there's a coal plant....

[comtec]

33. DEAR GOD think of the children in the case of a wind spill!!!!

WIND EVERYWHERE!!!!
oh wait..
nevermind... NOTHING HAPPENS if one falls over

[christx30]

40. To say nothing

of the dangers of solar power. When there is a radiation leak from a solar farm... that could cause catastrophic problems.

[Javaman]

19. pretty apparent why he's doing this...

so his toupe' doesn't fly away.

:rofl:

[thereismore]

20. Don Quixote! nt

[yellowcanine]

21. Aw go break some wind, Chump Trump.

[ChrisBorg]

23. Who does he think he is......a Kennedy?

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[Uben]

29. He bought the golf course, not the view

Any competent real estate person knows that any views from a certain property are subject to, and probably will, change. So, he can blame his loss on his stupidity. He has a zero chance of stopping the wind farm, short of buying it.

on edit: There is a windfarm 30 miles from me, about 50 turbines. I can see it, if I look for it, but I never look for it, so I don't see it. It is awesome to ride the Harley to see them, as the highway winds through them and they are so.....majestic? One does not realize, from afar, that these things are HUGE!

[marasinghe]

31. bankrupt on hair; bankrupt on class; bankrupt on business. & bankrupt in vision as well, i see. n/t

[Chimichurri]

34. Didn't he install an obnoxiously huge American flag on that lot pissing off his neighbors?

http://www.easyreadernews.com/26196/trump-flag-colbert-report/


what a maroon.

[Brother Buzz]

36. An obnoxiously huge American flag raised in Scotland might piss the locals off a bit

Trumps phallic pole was was hoisted in Rancho Palos Verdes, California

[Chimichurri]

37. Oh I see.Obstructing views is okay for him to do just not anyone else. Of course, makes sense.

[Brother Buzz]

38. Well, then there's that

;)

[TomCADem]

39. God Forbid That They Have A Windspill!

[SKKY]

41. It will be difficult to keep his hairpiece on with all those windmills.

Any objection by "The Donald", on almost anything, is based on his own personal vanity.