Environmental campaigners have welcomed reports that an anti-windfarm advert by Donald Trump is to be banned.
The newspaper adverts featured a photograph of First Minister Alex Salmond and linked the government’s support of windfarms with the decision to release Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) will publish a report this week condemning it as misleading. The advert prompted 21 complaints, including one from Green party leader Patrick Harvie.
The MSP said: “Only a sick mind would link renewables policy with Lockerbie victims and while the ASA says the advert did not breach its code in terms of offence, it agrees it was distasteful.
“It also agrees that both the claim about tourism and the use of an American image were misleading. I believe Mr Trump owes an apology for his crass behaviour.”
The ASA decision is the second such ruling against the Trump Organisation over their anti-windfarm campaign.
