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by pjc50 12 days ago
Somewhat higher stakes version of the Trump Aberdeen golf course:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-she...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Forbes_(farmer)

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This led to the greatest trolling of an individual ever when they deliberately stuck a windfarm directly off the coast of his new golf course. He's spent a couple of decades spending countless millions in losing a bunch of court cases, and of course, to this day, constantly moans to anyone who will list about "windmills".

As far as trolling goes, it's one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind.

On par with publicly embarrassing someone's birtherism at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

That blowback though.

unfortunately this trolling has caused trump to try to halt all large offshore wind projects in the United States in federal land grants. it's terrible.
Yep absolutely this and not at all big oil money/interest.
Why not both?
What would be doubly ironic is if the gold course windmill farm was sponsored by big oil.
For the gory details, see

1. Donald Trump's Ego Trip - lessons for the new Scotland (2011) https://andywightman.scot/docs/trumpreport_v1a.pdf

2. You've Been Trumped (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr6efmndvps

Wow! I especially like this:

> Scottish people formed a Tripping Up Trump Campaign to make it more difficult to transfer the title to the land, and hundreds of people bought small interests in Forbes' property and became co-owners.

Continued in another article[1]:

> When it emerged at the end of January 2011 that Queen guitarist Brian May had agreed to the use of the band's song "Bohemian Rhapsody" in a film highlighting the plight of the families, Trump appeared to deny in a media statement that there had ever been an eviction threat, declaring "we have no interest in compulsory purchase and have never applied for it."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Links...