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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

that Trump's PR machine put

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.

'I've brought my family up

here. Findlay was born here.'

Here he is. Hi, pet.

'And then, this man,

this foreigner comes in,'

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.

Are you going to Cruden Bay?

Maybe I should take a

cruise up in the old Zodie.

MUSIC:
"Janie Jones" by The Clash

Well, 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?

These sorts of models give

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

the forward track might be.

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

the swamps in South America.

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.

The World Wildlife Trust

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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