Victoria consents to gas production from well near Twelve Apostles

Greens says government's support for fossil fuel expansion is bonkers' and no one will visit the tourist site if it's surrounded by gas drilling rigs'

The Victorian government has given consent for a gas company to produce gas extracted from beneath a national park in the state's south-west, near the celebrated tourist site the Twelve Apostles.

Documents tabled in Victorian parliament earlier this month show Lily D'Ambrosio, the state energy and climate change minister, gave consent for an existing exploration gas well underneath the Port Campbell national park to be developed into a production well.