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Ross Tuddenham

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Re: "Setback for Donald Trump golf resort plan"
« Reply #50 on: January 18, 2012, 11:46:26 AM »
Jud

I appreciate a second course and large resort are hardly necessary but when they are the basis, as a boost to the economy, for justifying the destruction of a SSSI it is hardly fair for Trump to back out now.  I do not see his backing out helping future golf projects either, as planners will start to become increasingly nervous of projects failing to follow through.  Not that we need any more courses in Scotland anyway at the moment things can always change. 

Jon Wiggett

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Re: "Setback for Donald Trump golf resort plan"
« Reply #51 on: January 18, 2012, 12:44:39 PM »
Does anyone really believe that he is really going to back out? This is just a strong arm tactic to try and get the wind farm moved. It will be interesting to see if it is though.

They could just tell the tourists that they are there to ensure a good breeze on calm days to ensure the perfect links experience ;)

Jon

Niall C

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Re: "Setback for Donald Trump golf resort plan"
« Reply #52 on: January 18, 2012, 01:22:54 PM »
Damn wind farm...

"Donald Trump is on the brink of abandoning his plans for the "world's greatest golf course" near Aberdeen after claiming his £750m project is being threatened by an offshore wind farm. The billionaire property developer has disclosed he has frozen plans to build the second 18-hole golf course, the five-star hotel, the luxury villas and houses and the timeshare apartments that make up the planned resort until a final decision is made on the wind-power project. Instead, the scheme will feature only the first golf course..."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/18/donald-trump-scottish-golf-resort?newsfeed=true

My arse !

He's been pulling this stunt from the very outset and considering he's already built "the world's greatest course" what's he going to do ? Not build the hotel and houses that were going to provide the profit and that will be entirely unaffected by windfarms sited miles off the coast.

Niall

Jim Nugent

Re: "Setback for Donald Trump golf resort plan"
« Reply #53 on: January 18, 2012, 03:05:57 PM »
Maybe the fact that the EU may crack up, with economies and national governments about to default, has something to do with Trump's thinking.  Hard for me to imagine a worse time to launch a real estate project like this. 

Niall C

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Re: "Setback for Donald Trump golf resort plan"
« Reply #54 on: January 19, 2012, 02:03:54 PM »
Maybe the fact that the EU may crack up, with economies and national governments about to default, has something to do with Trump's thinking.  Hard for me to imagine a worse time to launch a real estate project like this. 

Jim

To an extent you are probably right but you have to appreciate that Aberdeen is the oil capital of the UK if not Europe. The price of oil is close to an all time high and Aberdeen is still going along very well indeed. I can't recall exactly the quote but apparently Aberdeen has more Ferrari owners per capita than anywhere else in the UK, or something like that. It may well be he has funding difficulties like every other developer at the moment but I suspect that there's still buyers out there.

Niall

Howard Riefs

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Re: "Setback for Donald Trump golf resort plan"
« Reply #55 on: February 10, 2012, 08:00:05 PM »
The Trump-Scotland soap opera kicks into high gear with the letter Trump wrote to Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond blasting the “horrendous” wind farm. I'm afraid The Donald fell off his rocker:

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“With the reckless installation of these monsters, you will single-handedly have done more damage to Scotland than any event in Scottish history!”


http://www.golfchannel.com/news/associated-press/the-donald-blasts-scots-wind-farm-plan/?cid=twitter_A_gc_TRUMPBLASTSWINDFARMPLAN
"Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: Taking long walks and hitting things with a stick."  ~P.J. O'Rourke

Tiger_Bernhardt

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Re: "Setback for Donald Trump golf resort plan"
« Reply #56 on: February 10, 2012, 08:06:32 PM »
When was he on his rocker. Making lots of money and being an ego maniac is not a guarantee of stability.  I would say it is more one that discloses significant emotional issues.

Jud_T

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Re: "Setback for Donald Trump golf resort plan"
« Reply #57 on: February 11, 2012, 06:51:06 AM »
When you look up "hyperbole" in the dictionary....No one has taken better advantage of the old saw that there's no such thing as bad publicity than the Donald. 
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

Mike Sweeney

Re: "Setback for Donald Trump golf resort plan"
« Reply #58 on: February 11, 2012, 07:20:39 AM »
I recognize that Donny stirs interest here but honestly he is small potatoes in comparison to some of the names that have opposed the Cape Cod Wind Farm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Wind

Walter Cronkite
was the subject of controversy as well when he originally came out against the wind farm but then changed his opinion.[50] Other opponents have included Sen. Ted Kennedy,[51] Sen. John Kerry, former Gov. Mitt Romney, and businessman Bill Koch[52], who has donated $1.5 million to the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.

Proponents suggest that some of this opposition is motivated in part by ownership of real-estate on Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard or the mainland and that it raises issues of environmental justice. Robert Kennedy, Jr., whose family's Kennedy Compound is within sight of the proposed wind farm, wrote an essay for the New York Times stating his support for wind power in general, but opposing this project.[53] This doesn't represent the view of most Massachusetts citizens: in a 2005 survey, 81% of adults supported the project, 61% of Cape Cod residents supported it, and only 14% of adults oppose it.[54]

A recent book by Robert Whitcomb, Vice President and Editorial Page Editor of the Providence Journal, and Wendy Williams argues that the fight over Cape Wind involves a powerful, privileged minority imposing their will on the majority.[55]

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