At 6.30am this morning (April 20 ), as the first of the day’s golfers were arriving at the Trump Turnberry Golf Club, a team of Greenpeace activists installed a windfarm on the green of the 4th hole, together with a sign reading ‘Choose wind, dump Trump’.
Lily-Rose Ellis, Climate Campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said:
'Donald Trump wants to keep us as lifetime members of his Gulf Club, where every time he starts an illegal war, bills go through the roof while his fossil fuel backers make billions. But we don’t need to stay stuck in his sand trap – the renewables Trump hates are the best insurance policy against the chaos he’s unleashed. Wind and solar farms built since the start of the Ukraine war have saved us seven million pounds every day since Trump attacked Iran and drove gas prices back up again [1]. More clean energy that doesn’t rely on the Strait of Hormuz or Russian pipelines can save us money, boost our security and tackle climate change. It’s a hole in one.'
Three Greenpeace activists carried six model turbines, each around ten feet tall, along the beach to the course and erected them around the green. As the first golfers approached the first green, they dismantled the turbines and removed them from the green so as not to impede the game.
On Tuesday last week President Trump posted on social media urging Britain to ‘DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!!’ in the North Sea, and ‘NO MORE WINDMILLS!’ (sic). Polling shows that roughly two-thirds of Scottish voters (65%) believe Britain should not follow US President Donald Trump’s calls for increasing oil and gas extraction and should instead focus on boosting renewable energy. [2]
That public preference is supported by research showing that if both the Jackdaw and Rosebank fields were exploited, it would only reduce our gas imports by about 3%. [3] But while more drilling wouldn’t help bill payers, research shows Trump’s war in Iran could increase the total profits made by the oil and gas industry this year by $234 billion, or $30 million an hour. [4]
Notes
1.https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/clean-power-fortifies-britain-against-gas-price-shocks/
4.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/big-oil-huge-war-windfall-consumers
Source: Greenpeace
