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Sewell Chan reports at The New York Times that Britain's highest court has unanimously rejected an attempt by Donald J. Trump to block the construction of a wind farm near his luxury golf resort in northeast Scotland. Trump has vowed to stop further development on the project if the offshore wind farm — 11 turbines, which would be visible from the golf resort 2.2 miles away — goes forward. Trump spokesman George A. Sorial denounced the ruling as "extremely unfortunate for the residents of Aberdeen and anyone who cares about Scotland's economic future" adding that the wind farm will "completely destroy the bucolic Aberdeen Bay and cast a terrible shadow upon the future of tourism for the area. History will judge those involved unfavorably, and the outcome demonstrates the foolish, small-minded and parochial mentality which dominates the current Scottish government's dangerous experiment with wind energy."
Nicola Sturgeon, first minister of Scotland, withdrew Trump's status as a business ambassador to Scotland last week after Trump called for Muslims to be barred from entering the United States. Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen has stripped Mr. Trump of an honorary degree it awarded him in 2010. Trump's mother was born in Scotland and moved to the United States in the 1930s. "I think I do feel Scottish," said Trump at one time.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday December 17 2015, @04:03PM
Such resistance is dumb, and yes, we do have that in the United States. The most famous case is Teddy Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, fighting tooth-and-nail to stop a windfarm in Cape Cod. They published pictures of what the wind turbines would look like from the shore, and you really couldn't see them at all.
It's quite ridiculous. Many maritime areas have slid into poverty because of the decline of commercial fishing. Off-shore wind farms are a great counter, much as terrestrial wind farms have been in de-populated places like the Great Plains, but heaven fucking forbid some plutocrats should feel their view would be affected.
In a just world, places like the Hamptons and Westchester County would be designated as new destinations for nuclear waste. "Oh, you don't like the idea of your property used as a nuclear waste dump? Well, it's either that, or accede to this offshore wind farm..."
Washington DC delenda est.