Scottish dunes ruined by Trump golf course lose protected status

[Tanuki]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/09/trumps-aberdeenshire-golf-resort-dunes-lose-special-environmental-status

"Conservation officials in Scotland have said the coastal sand dunes at Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf resort have lost their special status as a protected environmental site.

NatureScot, Scotland’s nature agency, said that following construction of the Trump International Golf Links course at Menie, north of Aberdeen, the dunes no longer “merit being retained as part of the site of special scientific interest”.

The sand dunes had been a “high-quality example” of a geological system characteristic of north-east Scotland, the agency said.

But it said that despite nature conservation work by the Trump golf course to protect the rare habitats and plants remaining on the site, “there is now no longer a reason to protect the dunes at Menie as they do not include enough of the special, natural features for which they were designated”....(more)

[SoonerPride]

1. Everything trump touches dies

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Yep

You beat me to it.

[Botany]

2. Tear down that golf course* and restore the dune community.

* Trump promised thousands of jobs but in reality it produced less than 100. With over half
of the jobs being caddies.

[riversedge]

3. Scot officials OK'ed a second Trump record. damn

[Poiuyt]

4. If the dunes were protected, why did they let him build there in the first place?

[Eugene]

5. People in charge decided potential economic benefits outweighed environmental harm.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142644393

Trump golf course dunes lose special environmental status (BBC)

SNH had warned a planning inquiry that the development would seriously damage the SSSI, but permission was granted by Scottish ministers on the basis that the potential economic benefit would outweigh environmental harm.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-55244660