You've Been Trumped Page #3
Michael as a particular problem.
They see him as someone
who is standing up for
what is rightfully his.
And they don't believe all the claptrap
out about a hard-nosed farmer.
You know, he's standing
up for what's his.
Why shouldn't he? Why
wouldn't he? You know.
This is, actually,
zoned for the housing.
On the crest of that hill, between
David Milne's property there,
is going to be the eight-storey
blocks of time-share apartments.
My house, originally a
coastguard station, built in 1954,
but there's been a station
here since about 1860 something.
There's a row of five
cottages, here to my right.
They are coastguard cottages.
The occupants were originally
workers in the coastguard.
So if, when you look at the drawings,
you see something that looks
like a crashed space shuttle...
..that's the hotel.
And where my home is, is
meant to be a car park.
The buildings that you see,
just a little further over there,
the other side of the green
field, that's Mike Forbes' place.
Again, under threat
of compulsory purchase.
Down below here, this white building,
that's the home of the Munro family.
Again, under compulsory purchase threat.
"No compulsory purchase,
no more Trump lies,"
on the top of the postcard.
"The hoose down the road to the dunes
"where once you could roam free."
'I've been here a long time, near
on three decades, that's a long time.
'Most of my adult life has
been spent in this house.
here. Findlay was born here.'
Here he is. Hi, pet.
'And then, this man,
and because he's got a few
pounds, they reckon, in his pocket,
a bit of a name, and we're just
cast aside, we're in the way.
I think it's an awful
way to treat people.
That was just when we moved
here, I was expecting Findlay -
he was, as I say, born here, so...
As you can see, the
difference from a few years.
This was taken in
excess of 25 years ago.
Me with the children
and my mother, paddling.
Oh, it was just glorious.
You realise what you've got and
what's going to be taken away.
Maybe I should take a
cruise up in the old Zodie.
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"Janie Jones" by The ClashWell, I'd just left art college in 1974.
And I moved to London. It's
where I continued my relationship
with, at that time, John Mellor,
who most people know as Joe Strummer.
Having extricated myself
from the music industry,
I chanced to meet Kim, my partner.
It must have been worse yesterday,
because the winds were terrific yesterday.
It's a bit rough today, isn't it? So
you are taking it out of the water, then?
I used to come up here
with my grandmother
and my aunt and my cousins,
on the bus from
Aberdeen, in the mid '50s,
with our bandy catchers, and
playing commandos on those dunes.
It was a fantastic open space
within reach of ordinary
people from Aberdeen.
And the only wild stretch has been
swallowed up by this development.
Now, that is primarily what drives
me to say it shouldn't happen.
It's a real mosaic of habitats.
You've got everything from open
sand to shrubs to trees to wetlands.
A greener Scotland is effectively a myth
if something like this
is allowed to happen.
And lots of areas are either
destroyed, moved around,
sanitised, disturbed,
and they'll be a few bits
left scattered around as a kind
of mitigation of this development,
this very damaging
two-golf-course development,
and the whole package is wrong.
Welcome to our little world, McIntyre.
This is a bay in a million.
And this harbour is a natural for
blasting in the underground tanks.
Incredibly steep, isn't it?
us vital clues to understand
the interaction of waves on beaches,
the interaction of the
beach and the upper beach.
And then, the availability of sand
to be blown into sand dune systems,
such as we've got on
the Aberdeenshire coast.
In Menie, what we've got
is a very, very clear model
of sand moving in a northerly
direction. Crystal clear.
That is very interesting from
the point of view of science,
from the point of view of understanding
how our landscapes
adjusts to climate change.
It is the only one left.
And once we've lost the only one left,
we are dealing with
essentially artificial systems.
And the problem with
artificial systems, of course,
is that, because we've
meddled with them in some way,
we don't actually know what
These are tees that are built
onto very steep sand dunes.
So they will have to
be built up artificially
by movement of sand from
elsewhere on the site.
Up to eight metres vertically
will have to be emplaced.
And that will involve moving
biblical amounts of sand from A to B.
So not only do you lose
the natural dynamism
that this area is noted
for scientifically,
you will stabilise it, so
you'll lose the dynamism.
But also, you will be constructing a
largely artificial sand dune environment.
Well, I've stabilised the dunes,
and that means the dunes
will be with us for ever.
And that's good, because dunes
can be gone with the wind.
I mean, dunes can move and
shift and sometimes they do.
But when you stabilise them,
they're with you for ever.
So I've stabilised
them, and, ultimately,
I think that's going
to be a great factor
and a great thing for
Scotland and for Aberdeen.
These wilderness environments
are our equivalent, if you like,
of the Amazon rainforest or
Many of these wilderness environments
have been lost around the world,
and, in Britain, we've got
very, very few of those left.
And what's happening here is
that we are losing yet another.
We've had tremendous support
from the environmental groups,
so I'm very happy about that.
I mean, we've had great,
great environmental support.
I've received many environmental
awards over the years.
I think the greatest thing I've
ever done for the environment
is what I'll be doing
right here in Aberdeen.
But when we went to our meetings,
we had tremendous support
from major environmentalists
and environmental groups.
Is my hair OK? It's blowing all over.
Have a look in the lens.
I can't see it. Do you have a
mirror, Emily? Give me a mirror.
'There are no environmental
organisations that I know of
'that favour this development.'
Who has a mirror?
RSPB opposed it.
SEPA, the Scottish
Environmental Protection Agency,
Scottish Natural Heritage were
violently opposed to this development.
were against the development.
The Ramblers Association
were against the development.
I know of no credible
environmental organisations
that favoured such a development
on environmental grounds.
This is an accolade site. A Site
Of Special Scientific Interest.
The highest conservation accolade
that this country can bestow.
And yet, we allow a golf
course to be developed on it,
which will remove the
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