With a meeting, trump renewed a British wind farm fight

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LONDON When President-elect Donald J. Trump met with the British politician Nigel Farage in recent days, he encouraged Mr. Farage and his entourage to oppose the kind of offshore wind farms that Mr. Trump believes will mar the pristine view from one of his two Scottish golf courses, according to one person present.

The meeting, held shortly after the presidential election, raises new questions about Mr. Trumps willingness to use the power of the presidency to advance his business interests. Mr. Trump has long opposed a wind farm planned near his course in Aberdeenshire, and he previously fought unsuccessfully all the way to Britains highest court to block it.

The group that met with Mr. Trump in New York was led by Mr. Farage, the head of the U.K. Independence Party and a member of the European Parliament. Mr. Farage, who was a leading voice advocating Britains exit from the European Union, or Brexit, campaigned with Mr. Trump during the election. Arron Banks, an insurance executive who was a major financier of the Brexit campaign, was also in attendance.

He did not say he hated wind farms as a concept; he just did not like them spoiling the views, said Andy Wigmore, the media consultant who was present at the meeting and was photographed with Mr. Trump.

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Mr. Wigmore headed communications for Leave.EU, one of the two groups that led the Brexit effort. He said in an email that he and Mr. Banks would be campaigning against wind farms in England, Scotland and Wales.

Mr. Wigmore said that Mr. Banks had previously opposed wind farms and that they had been studying the issue on their own. However, he said, Mr. Trump "did suggest that we should campaign on it and spurred us in and we will be going for it.

His account of the meeting was previously reported in The Express, a British paper.

Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Mr. Trumps transition office, at first disputed that Mr. Trump had raised the subject of wind farms with Mr. Farage, suggesting that participants in the conversation denied this took place. However, when pressed with the fact that one of the meetings attendees, Mr. Wigmore, had described the conversation in detail, she declined repeated requests to comment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/business/with-a-meeting-trump-renewed-a-british-wind-farm-fight.html

This explains Trump's bombastic tweets against the NYT this morning. Such a busy guy;)

[yuna628 9,758]

Farage is the single greatest cause for British wind, hands down.

[Rob L 3,811]

Farage is the single greatest cause for British wind, hands down.

And he is Trumps pick for Ambassador to the US, although 10 Downing has other ideas.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38064664