Trump gets permission to build Wall, after warning about Climate Change !

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At his Doonbeg, County Clare, Ireland golf resort

US President Donald Trump has got the go-ahead for one of his walls - a sea defence at his exclusive golf resort on Ireland's west coast. Planning authorities gave the green light for the billionaire to protect his Doonbeg golf links in Co Clare with man-made dunes to keep back Atlantic storms. The work will involve putting in sea defences to protect the first, ninth and 18th holes of the course covering about 600m at the south end of Doughmore Bay and 250m at the north end. The aim is to create a sea defence that will stem erosion where severe winter storms have wiped out metres of beach and dune in recent years.

Clare County Council said the decision can be appealed within four weeks.

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President Trump last year pulled plans for more extensive coastal protection works at Doonbeg amid fierce oppositions to a 200,000 tonne, 2.8km (two mile) sea defence. Mr Trump has said he is not a great believer in man-made climate change, but in his original application he cited global warming and rising seas as a reason for needing the wall. The dune system is also home to the microscopic narrow-mouth whorl snail, or vertigo angustior, which has survived since the Ice Age. Mr Trump paid about 15 million euro for Doonbeg and vowed to invest up to 45 million euro.

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Tony Lowes, of Friends of the Irish Environment - which challenged the original plan, said: "Any intervention through physical barriers will impede the natural evolution of the dune system and put at risk protected species, even without considering the loss to Doughmore strand and its great dunes.

"The decision must be appealed."

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/donald-trump-given-green-light-to-build-wall-around-doonbeg-golf-resort-36428431.html