You've Been Trumped Page #3

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'The Trump Organization has confirmed

'it will now pull out of Scotland

'after bitter rejection at Balmedie.'

We are very disappointed.

Ultimately, we can go and develop

the project somewhere else.

We'll be fine.

I think it's the people

of Aberdeen and the shire

that were really let down

by their council today.

It was predicated on

long-distance tourism.

It was predicated on people

flying across the Atlantic

to play a few games of golf and

flying back across the Atlantic.

It was predicated on utilising

an irreplaceable and

diminishing resource

of, effectively, natural habitat.

'Mr Trump also reiterated

his concern about a proposal

'to build an offshore wind

farm close to his site.'

When I look out on to the ocean

from the 18th hole of Trump

International Golf Links,

to be honest with you,

I want to see the ocean.

I don't want to see windmills.

Good evening. There's

renewed hope tonight

that American tycoon

Donald Trump's plans

for a 1 billion golf

development in Aberdeenshire

will go ahead.

In a dramatic twist, the

Scottish Government have called in

the controversial planning application,

taking it out of

Aberdeenshire Council's hands.

'Never before has an application

been called in in this manner...'

By calling in an application

that had already been refused,

it's inescapable that the

government has, in some way,

expressed the view that it does

not want the application refused.

'Today, almost two years on

'from when he first

announced his proposals,

'the Scottish Governments have

given the tycoon the green light.'

Well, I think the message would be

I'm going to build for the people

of Scotland the greatest golf course

anywhere in the world,

there'll be nothing like it.

And it's going to be done

environmentally perfect.

'The Menie Estate is in the constituency

'of First Minister, Alex Salmond.'

The balance of opinion among

people in the northeast of Scotland

and among my constituents

is very strongly in favour.

And that's because we can see

the social and economic benefits.

I mean, 6,000 jobs across Scotland.

1,400 local and permanent jobs

here in the northeast of Scotland.

That's a very powerful argument.

I think that outweighs

the environmental concerns.

There's not many people

looking to invest 1 billion

in this local economy.

It's right in keeping with

our development strategy

that inward-bound tourism is

key for the city and shire.

That's what we're here to support.

And in partnership with Mr Trump,

I believe we can do that together.

I thought it was the biggest

thing that had happened

in the northeast since

oil was discovered.

- No, no, CPO!

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