FWIW: natural gas (methane) is a globally-traded commodity. Extracting it here isn’t going to make it any more affordable to NSians or make us any less affected by global oil prices.
Solar on every rooftop, however,
That’s kinda what I thought. It’s really unfortunate. I imagine there would be some complexity in balancing the load across the grid. But that seems like a better use of $$$ than natural gas plants?