An anti-wind farm advert sanctioned by the Trump Organisation was misleading, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled.
US businessman Donald Trump, who has a golf development in Aberdeenshire, opposes wind farms and is challenging the Scottish Government’s decision to grant planning permission for a wind farm off the Aberdeenshire coast.
The adverts, published last December, claimed tourism would suffer with turbines being put up. The ASA said the claim regarding tourism needed to be substantiated with robust evidence.
The adverts showed a bank of wind turbines in California, accompanied by the strapline ‘Tourism will suffer and the beauty of your country is in jeopardy’.
The ASA also said it was misleading to imply the image of the wind turbines overlooking an American freeway was representative of a proposed wind farm in Scotland.
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