14 DAY TRIAL // After learning that a bunch of folks in the energy industry wanted to build an offshore wind farm in Aberdeen Bay, Scotland, the business magnate vowed not to let them ruin the view from the golf course he owns close to the green facility's proposed location.
By the looks of it, Donald Trump is sticking to his promise. Thus, just yesterday, Swedish power company Vattenfall and the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group announced that, due to a series of complications, they were to push back the development of the offshore wind farm by two years.
“The amendment to the schedule, which was prompted by the project shareholders, allows continued engagement with potential investment partners and takes into account the ongoing onshore planning issues as well as existing legal challenges to the offshore consent,” the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group writes in a press release.
According to Business Green, the fact that, about a month ago, Donald Trump filed a lawsuit trying to block the development of the wind farm in Scotland's Aberdeen Bay is likely to be part and parcel of the complications the wind farm's developers must deal with.
The Court of Session in Edinburgh is expected to rule either in favor or against business magnate Donald Trump sometime in the months to come.
Truth be told, it was back in October when local councilors in Scotland said “no” to a planning application to erect an electricity substation meant to serve the offshore wind farm, so Donald Trump might not be entirely to blame. Still, odds are that environmentalists are not very happy with him right about now.
The offshore wind farm in Aberdeen Bay is now expected to go online in late 2017. Its developers promise that they will try to connect it to the grid at an earlier date, but, judging by how “well” things are going, it is doubtful that they will succeed.