Trump firm's bid for new Scottish golf course blocked by sewage row [View all]
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
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?
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