A Scottish-Australian mining joint venture is targeting 1billion tonnes of clean coal from deep beneath the Firth of Forth to generate electricity for Scotland.
The boss of ScottishPower said in Aberdeen last night that, 35 years on from first North Sea oil a new chapter could be opening with carbon capture and storage (CCS).
A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at a conference in Edinburgh entitled Powering Scotland, which took a serious look at whether or not the provisions are in place to keep the lights on over the next decade or so.
The attraction to politicians of talking about energy policy is that it normally takes about five years before reality catches up with rhetoric - and by then, everyone has moved on.
