Trump firm's bid for new Scottish golf course blocked by sewage row

[Doug the Dem]

Source: The Guardian

Tuesday 29 August 2017 08.39 BST

The Trump Organization faces further conflict with Scotland’s environment agency after its revised plans for a second golf course near Aberdeen were rejected as inadequate.

Solicitors for the US president’s golf resort in Aberdeenshire said the company had dropped plans to use a stream to irrigate the course and to supply a man-made lagoon after the Scottish Environment Protection Agency logged formal objections to its proposals in July.

The Trump Organization has also offered far more detailed proposals for public access paths across the course, linked to a neighbouring country park, in an effort to meet concerns raised by Aberdeenshire council officials.

Sepa, the statutory authority that polices pollution legislation, has welcomed the concessions but intensified its objections to the Trump Organization’s plans to continue using a temporary sewage drain near a cottage and the course’s small clubhouse.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/29/trump-firms-bid-for-new-scottish-golf-course-blocked-by-sewage-row

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Is this a matter of urgent geopolitical import? No. But a news headline containing the words "Trump" and "sewage" in the same sentence? How the HELL was I supposed to resist posting that?

[Doug the Dem]

1. All Recs and no Kicks make Doug evan Duller than He Usually Is

[haveahart]

2. Bad, bad Scottish government to want to protect its people and environment.

I thought the US government was the only government in the world to have safety and environmental regulations. Tsk tsk. Trump lied to us again.

[maxrandb]

3. Had to read the subject line twice

Swore it said "blocked by Raw Sewage" instead of sewage row.

I think they way I read it is more appropriate. There is a shit-ton of raw sewage released in everything Trump touches

[yellowcanine]

4. A sewage row, you say.

Some of the best public controversies are about sewage.