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Eugene

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Thu Oct 8, 2015, 06:44 PM Oct 2015

Donald Trump takes campaign against windfarms to UK supreme court

Source: The Guardian

Donald Trump takes campaign against windfarms to UK supreme court

Republican presidential contender and golf course owner says planned turbines
would be ‘monstrous’ blight on Aberdeenshire coastline


Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent
Thursday 8 October 2015 14.27 BST

Donald Trump, the US presidential contender who has electrified the republican right, has taken his campaign against windfarms to the UK’s supreme court.

Despite losing at every stage in the Scottish courts, the billionaire property developer is funding a fresh challenge to prevent offshore turbines being built within sight of his Menie golf resort in Aberdeenshire.

The New York tycoon, who declared he was prepared to spend $1bn (£650m) to advance his political ambitions, has sufficient resources to bankroll another round of protracted, private litigation. He has already threatened to take his lawsuit to European courts if he loses in the supreme court.

Trump, 69, whose mother was Scottish, did not appear in person at the supreme court in Westminster on Thursday. The presidential race, in which he has emerged as a Republican frontrunner, is heating up.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/08/donald-trump-takes-campaign-against-wind-farms-to-uk-supreme-court

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Fred Sanders

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1. Trump's investors would be wise to cash out before Trump's clinical dementia advances further.
Thu Oct 8, 2015, 06:49 PM
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