Australia's oil and gas industries say they can remove more than 30 million cars from Australian roads, if the power industry turns to gas instead of coal, to fire its plants.
The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association says that, if the majority of new power plants in Australia are fired by natural gas in the next 10 years, it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 180 million tonnes.
APPEA chief Belinda Robinson has told a conference in Perth she expects the relatively new coal seam gas to provide the bulk of the supply.
"I mean that's been a real juggernaut" she says.
"The coal seam gas industry in Queensland over the last couple of years has just grown exponentially to the point where it's going to be a formidable force in terms of supplying particularly the east coast's energy needs, as well as supporting a number of LNG plants, the world's first being proposed for coal seam gas."
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