The wind farm Donald Trump tried to block is now complete

[Rhiannon12866]

US president Donald Trump doesn’t give up a fight easily, especially if it involves one of his many properties. One such fight happened in Scotland, where the Trump Organization owns a golf course and tried to block the building of a wind farm that would be visible from the course. The company’s legal challenges were overthrown in 2015 and, on Saturday (May 26), the last of the turbines were installed completing the offshore wind farm.

Trump himself expressed concern about the 2003 plans to build the offshore wind farm, just after he had bought a seaside estate near the town of Balmedie in Aberdeenshire in 2006. “I am not thrilled,” Trump said then. “I want to see the ocean, I do not want to see windmills.” Then in 2011, after formal construction plans were submitted, Trump filed a complaint to the Scottish government against the “the horrible idea of building ugly wind turbines directly off Aberdeen’s beautiful coastline.” Trump’s golf course opened in 2012.

When the government approved the construction of the wind farm in 2013, Trump filed a lawsuit and vowed to “spend whatever monies are necessary to see to it that these huge and unsightly industrial wind turbines are never constructed.” Trump’s case suffered a series of defeats, with the final blow in the UK’s supreme court in 2015.

The construction of the wind farm, which consists of 11 turbines, has continued without interruption since then. Vattenfall, the company behind the wind farm, says the 90 MW power plant will produce the equivalent of 70% of Aberdeen’s domestic electricity demand, preventing more than 130,000 metric tons of carbon emissions.


More: https://qz.com/1291269/the-scottish-wind-farm-donald-trump-tried-to-block-is-now-complete/


Time-lapse installation of turbine at Vattenfall’s EOWDC wind farm

Time-lapse footage of wind turbine installation at Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre located just off the north east coast of Scotland in Aberdeen Bay.

[murielm99]

1. I remember that fight.

The Scots called him "Wee Donald."

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Among many more colorful names!

[riversedge]

3. ha ha. will change now to pee Donalld. yes. crase

gross who I am done with being polite .

[Scarsdale]

4. Should be

Wee-Wee Donald! He has the gall to call the windmills "ugly"! Has he looked in a mirror lately?

[hunter]

6. I hate to have anything in common with Trump...

... but giant wind turbines do not warm my cockles.

They're just an excuse to build "natural" gas power plants.

Ain't nothing "natural" about gas.

Call me Don Quixote.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Rhiannon

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Thanks!

I thought we could use some good news for a change!

[Uncle Joe]

8. ..

[NNadir]

9. There is a logical fallacy that goes like this: "If a bad guy opposes something, it must be good."

A similar vein of bad thinking would claim that if a bad guy endorses something, that thing must be bad.

Both cases are classic examples of logical fallacies.

In general, support for the so called "renewable energy" industry is often laced with such fallacies.

By this logic, the Volkswagen Beetle, a popular car for the last half of the last century which was fuel efficient for its time, is a crime against humanity, since Adolf Hitler directed Ferdinand Porsche to design and build it.

If there's anything this video obviates, it the absurdity of the wind industry, and it's destructiveness.

A person who gave a shit about the environment, and who was also aware of the short amount of time that will pass before this monstrosity becomes nothing more than a navigation hazard leaching lubricants and heavy metals into the sea, will seriously question the amount of oil burned in this video.

Further a serious thinker might remark on what is not shown, the coal mined to refine the steel for this temporary front for the dangerous fossil fuel industry, the gas consumed to make the nitric acid to isolate the lanthanides therein, the petroleum, coal or gas used to prepare the carbon fiber blades...

All this to entrench the gas industry.

It's a disgrace.

The wind industry will never be clean; it will never be safe; it will never be sustainable.

Enthusiasm for it is the big lie we tell ourselves, and if we cheer like Pavlov's dogs for this video, we're clueless.