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Aberdeen was the centre of the UK North Sea oil boom. Now there are hard times in Annie Lennox’s home town. A lot of that money went elsewhere, she says, leaving little for the city. Now an oil baron wants to put money into a public park, and thus privatize it. Annie Lennox is leading the fight against the privatization. There’s a lesson for Canada here, with the government sole sourcing the economy on the oil sands and most of is foreign investment that will leave Canada.
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Annie Lennox launches scathing attack on Aberdeen’s City Gardens projectThe singer Annie Lennox has made a scathing attack on plans for a £140m privately run park in the centre of her home city of Aberdeen, de…0
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Annie Lennox: why I’m against Aberdeen’s City Gardens projectThe City Gardens project is something I took up arms against a couple of years ago, but in the end I put them down again, because I felt …0
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Aberdeen’s divisive City Garden project hangs in the balanceIt is touted as one of the most daring urban park projects seen in Scotland: a spider’s web of arching concrete walkways, tree-lined path…0
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