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...greatly honored by the positive decision and believe that the people of Scotland will be extremely happy with the final product. We will stabilize the dunes. They will be there forever. This will be environmentally better after [the development] is built that it is before," Trump told The Scotsman newspaper...
...turnaround surprised few, since the Scottish government has been eager to attract investment as proof that Scotland can "go it alone" without tax subsidies from London. Aberdeenshire, with its decimated fishing fleet and dwindling offshore oil fields, has been a specific target for outside investment. Trump has promised to create 6000 jobs there, but that hardly mollified Scotland's conservation bodies. On Monday, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, one of the most vocal defenders of the dunes, accused the Scottish government of selling a "greener Scotland down the river" for Trump's money - loaded words...
...Dune system, with its precious wildlife, is too high a price to pay for the claimed economic benefits from this development," Aedan Smith of RSPB Scotland said...
...Helen McDade of another conservation body, the John Muir Trust, was even more direct in a statement issued to the press: "The government's reasoning seems to be that it is OK to ignore any number of protections that are in place to safeguard Scotland's environment, provided there is a big enough buck to be made...
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