Vic govt to proceed with caution on CSG THE Victorian government will not rush into allowing the development of a coal seam gas (CSG) industry in the state, Deputy Premier Peter Ryan says. Mr Ryan's state department portfolio was given oversight of the coal industry in public sector changes announced by Premier Denis Napthine on Tuesday. The Victorian government has issued a number of exploratory licences, but has a moratorium on the controversial extraction practice known as fracking. Mr Ryan said the state would watch developments in NSW and Queensland before allowing the development of a coal seam gas industry in Victoria. "We are not going to rush into anything," he told reporters in Melbourne on Wednesday. The resource, if it is there, has literally been there for thousands of years and is not going away. We will go about this very, very carefully. Mr Ryan said the state was years away from having any productive capacity for the resource. "We are not going to sacrifice our livability as a state," he said.