Environmental Crisis Caused by Trump in Scotland
Satellite images reveal the massive destruction that affected the Foveran Links dunes in Scotland after former US President Donald Trump built a golf course on them.
Satellite images have revealed the devastation caused by former US President Donald Trump in Scotland to build what he described as "the world's best golf course."
The images obtained by Business Insider from satellite technology show the massive destruction of the valuable Foveran Links sand dunes on which the golf course was built, between March 2010 and April 2021.
In 2006, Donald Trump's good relationship with Scotland's then-first minister, Alex Salmond, secured him the chance to purchase a stretch of coastal land in Aberdeenshire, northeast Scotland.
Although the plan was met with vicious local opposition and warnings of an environmental crisis, the Scottish government intervened in 2008 to approve Trump's plan of creating "the world's best golf course" for alleged economic benefits for the country.
Back then, Trump affirmed that he is going to stabilize the dunes, and that "they'll be there forever, and it's going to be better environmentally then."
As predicted, local officials announced in December 2020 that the coastal sand dunes were destroyed and will lose their status as a protected ecological site with particular scientific interest.