comment, 26 April 2012
A small footnote to this week’s Trump circus.
At the Scottish parliament’s energy committee hearing yesterday (422KB pdf), Donald Trump attacked the Scottish government as “foolhardy” for setting targets to cut climate pollution by boosting renewable energy.
“I think that your CO2 targets are absolutely ridiculous,” he said. “Here you are, destroying the financial wellbeing of Scotland to meet phoney and totally random CO2 targets.”
But in the letter (129KB pdf) sent on his behalf by his lawyers to wind power developers, Vattenfall, in December 2010, the message could hardly have been more of a contrast.
“The Trump Organisation fully supports efforts being made by the Scottish government and the Scottish renewable energy industry to achieve ambitious national targets to meet 20% of Scotland’s energy demand from renewable sources by 2020,” it said.
What is the Scottish government's stand on the Menie issue. Alex Salmond is keeipng quiet while Northern Constabulary and others take some stick. Speak up Alex. Let the voters know where you stand. We like open govt. and honesty in Scottish politics. Sort Trump out now. It is our country!
Posted by: Sandra | 19 June 2012 at 01:08 PM
It's almost as if Donald Trump has no conviction or honesty in what he says - other than that it might be useful to achieve his sole goal of making more money for himself.
Posted by: DCollis | 02 May 2012 at 05:06 PM
You are probably quite correct - Donald Trump has unfortunately been dominating the headlines for days if not weeks. I believe his outburst on wind turbines is short-sighted and does not take account of the technological development process that made his own country so prosperous.
Did George Stephenson listen to his critics in 1829 when they said his new Rocket steam locomotive was noisy, slow, visually obtrusive and inefficient? Maybe another case of ‘Recessionary Slumber’, as I have defined in my blog.
Posted by: Brian C Pope | 29 April 2012 at 09:11 AM