The flagship carbon capture and storage project at Longannet - just up the road from me - has been scrapped.
A decision has been made not to proceed with Longannet but to pursue other projects with the one billion pounds funding made available by the government," the Department of Energy and Climate Change said today.
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne insisted the idea can still work elsewhere, and promised that the £1bn would be available for other projects.
I can't help but recall the speech by the oil industry bigwig at the Oil Club dinner last year, when CCS essentially formed the core of the industry's vision for the future. For the whole idea to be jettisoned so soon seems, well, odd.
How much of industry's green credentials are just a matter of keeping public and politicians out of their hair? Quite a lot, I would guess.