"Ward said. “I find that inexplicable.”
I’ll explain it to you. The local government made a great big dirty business transaction with a crook who could care less about a heap of sand.
Och, laddies and lassies, Aathing the graet git touches laes itsel doun an’ dees.
And to add to that none of it is a surprise. That kind of environmental destruction is predictable. Any site plan would have mentioned it but they gave it to go ahead for the bucks. There’s really no room for Scotland to bitch here. They held all the cards and should have played the “no” card.
Hmm if the scientifically important site was important because the sand dunes drift and you go and plant grasses (native or not), then you have damaged what makes the site important.
The damaged and destroyed drifts, one of the best examples of moving sand dunes in Britain, developed over 4,000 years, according to the agency.
Spot on. Scots raised the alarm yet the government did nothing.
Here’s a great documentary about Agolf in Scotland.
EVERYTHING he touches…
It takes some longer than others to catch on. Sad!!
The proposed second phase will support nearly 2,000 jobs during construction and some 300 permanent jobs after it is completed, the company said last week.
If the FIRST phase hasn’t produced the jobs advertised, then why should the Scots (not the Scotch) believe them now??/
The whole world should be aware by now that anything touched by the Trump name either turns to shit or dies.
Trump International Executive Vice President Sarah Malone said the company owned less than 5 percent of the site of special scientific interest, or SSSI, most of which remains untouched.
“As for the small portion that we do own, no other SSSI site in the land has seen more environmental care or investment,” Malone said in a statement. “The site was ignored until Trump took ownership, and is now celebrated and enjoyed by many.”
Ignored as in left in it’s natural state?
And who might these celebrants be that enjoying the environmental degradation? Does Betsy DeVos park her yacht offshore and bring the kiddies for a picnic?
But it’s the Scotch what makes them believe what he says. McClellan 25 year old to be exact. Paid for by his campaign no doubt.
Reverse Midas.
All that gold stuff he surrounds himself with is just gold-painted crap.
It looks nice for awhile, but it’s still crap. And starts stinking quite a bit all too soon.
One lie after another.
As for the land developed for the golf course, “it has changed in parts because we have sown grass, but our environmental consultants and (Scottish Natural Heritage) can confirm that many of the special attributes of the land remains and the wildlife is flourishing.”
“We made it better! It used to be just bare sand with a few weeds, now we’ve planted beautiful grass all over and there are deer moving in. What’s wrong with you ungrateful people?!”
Loch him up…
Real Estate in Scotland has alway been a Nessie business.
Destroying 4,000 year old sand dunes isn’t enough, now you want to pollute the loch?
That comment kilt me…
The conservative mind can’t behold the natural state without mucking it up-see Arkansas.