Greens deputy leader Christine Milne this week predicted the coal-seam gas industry would be a disaster for Australia and called for a ban on the development of new coal mines.
But Ms Bligh has called the idea radical and extreme.
She said the coal and gas industries fuelled homes and business, and she would continue to approve mines because the state needs them.
"That's why we have to have cleaner versions of coal, that's why we have to have transition fuel like gas and it's why we need to invest in renewables - a sensible balanced solution," she said in Mackay today.
Ms Bligh said "sensible solutions" were needed to ensure the industries had a future in Queensland.
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