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London - US businessman Donald Trump on Tuesday launched a legal challenge in Edinburgh to a planned offshore windfarm, which he says will spoil the view from his luxury coastal golf course.
In March, the Scottish government granted approval for the 11-turbine wind farm in Aberdeen Bay, off the north-east coast of Scotland.
Trump International Golf Links and The Trump Organisation are asking the Court of Session to declare the decision illegal, as well as challenging a decision not to hold a public inquiry into the windfarm.
Trump is threatening not to finish his own plans for another hotel and holiday homes at his golf resort if plans for European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre go ahead.
He himself has been called a "bullyboy billionaire" by Scottish environmentalists and Aberdeen locals, who launched their own legal challenges to prevent him building the course.
Locals said he tried to evict them to make way for the golf course, used intimidation tactics, as well as ruining the pristine stretch of previously protected coastline.
"It's depressing to think that Donald Trump has nothing better to do than use his vast wealth to try and undermine Scotland's aim of becoming a cleaner, greener, job-creating nation," said Lang Banks, director of environmental group WWF Scotland.
The government said it was "not appropriate" for it to comment on ongoing legal proceedings.
The Trump Organisation said: "We welcome the opportunity to present our case before the Court of Session."
The hearing is expected to take four days.
