Sheer hypocrisy of SNH Trump-bashing

SIR, – How typical of the government- funded quango Scottish Natural Heritage to join the popular bandwagon of criticising Trump International Golf Links at a time when this organisation is itself being sued by Luss Estate for allegedly poisoning 300-year-old trees on Inchtavannach Island and has turned a blind eye to the destruction of pristine wilderness and valuable farmland to create the environmentally disastrous AWPR and thousands of sites for wind turbines. I wonder how many of the detractors of the Trump Estate ever visited the site and dunes before the golf links were created? Very few, if any, I suspect.

The dunes in their original state were a veritable desert which supported little wildlife and were in a continual state of erosion, traversed by a stinking oil-polluted burn that ran on to the beach.

One wonders why SNH did not get on board with the Trump Organisation at the planning stage when the Scottish Government that funds it approved the building of the course.

Would SNH have funded the protection of the dunes, as Trump has done, or merely ignored them, as in the past?

What has been created is an environmentally-friendly wildlife haven that provides a beautiful green space and benefits the ecology of the area.

I suspect that the SNH’s actions are aimed fairly and squarely at Donald Trump and are politically motivated because of who he is – and that this is merely a way of deflecting attention away from SNH’s gross failures in protecting other areas of Scotland’s pristine wilderness areas.

Alastair Willett, Newburgh Road,

Bridge of Don, Aberdeen