Trump attacks ‘irresponsible’ windfarm plan

BILLIONAIRE businessman Donald Trump has personally written to Scotland’s First Minister objecting to plans to build an offshore windfarm near his luxury golf resort.

In the letter to Alex Salmond, the US tycoon described the wind turbines – to be located just over a mile from his golf course – as “disastrous and environmentally irresponsible”.

A planning application for an 11-turbine wind farm off Aberdeen Bay was submitted to Marine Scotland last month.

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The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre is a £150m joint venture by utility company Vattenfall, engineering firm Technip and Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group.

The Trump Organisation filed its objection to the planning application yesterday. Mr Trump’s £750m development on the coast is now nearing completion.