The Victorian Government has not had "a big issue" with the controversial gas.

The Victorian government has joined New South Wales in saying they have no intention of following Queensland's example in banning mining exploration in urban areas.

The Queensland government announced on Monday it would prohibit exploration in urban centres, providing a 2km buffer around towns with a population of 1000 or more.

However, Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu said Victoria has not had "a big issue" with the controversial gas.

"We have prospecting mining rights laws here (and) we don't have any proposal to change them here," Mr Baillieu told reporters on Tuesday.

"Farmers do have rights under Victorian law and everybody has a right to have their say but there are also mining and prospecting rights."

The NSW Government yesterday rebuffed the call by Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham for Premier Barry O'Farrell to provide the same protections in Nsw. A spokeswoman for NSW Resources Minister Chris Hartcher said on Tuesday that the NSW State Government had "no current plans" to impose a 2km buffer between CSG extraction and residential areas.

Last month the NSW government announced it would introduce a moratorium on the controversial "fracking" process used in CSG mining, and ban the use of toxic chemicals.

However, a 60-day moratorium on new exploration licences for coal, coal seam gas and petroleum was allowed to expire.

Meanwhile, the Queensland government has said smaller communities left out of the new mining exploration ban could still be protected in the future.

Queensland Natural Resources Minister Rachel Nolan on Tuesday didn't rule out expanding the protection to smaller areas, saying the 1000 population cut-off was chosen because of the definition of an urban area by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

"We are currently consulting around, is a town of 1000 people the right spot at which draw the line?" she told reporters at a Queensland gas industry conference in Brisbane.

"We'll hear from people about what it is that they think is an appropriate level through the current consultation process."