The Scottish Parliament has sent a very clear signal to the developers, Peel Energy, that plans to develop a coal-fired power station at Hunterston on the Clyde should not even be on the agenda for Scotland.
 
The Scottish Government will make the final decision on the application – but the view of Parliament was clear in the results of this vote.  A majority of MSPs, including MSPs from the Greens, Labour, Liberals and SNP, voted against the Hunterston proposals, prompted by an amendment by Scottish Greens to a Labour motion, here's the amendment in full:
 
  "... and also opposes new unabated coal power capacity, and therefore calls on the Scottish Government to reject plans to build a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston given that large-scale CCS at existing coal or gas plants has never been successfully demonstrated."
 
This is a great end to the first week of the campaign since the application was lodged – but this is most certainly not the end of the campaign.