I’ve long said that the wealth of natural gas under Michigan could have an enormous industrial benefit in the form of cheap energy even with the unions and high taxes.
Unfortunately our power companies are going green in an effort to soak up tax breaks and subsidies for themselves and driving prices even higher.
Personally I would sell the natural gas to industrial parks at wholesale prices and let them generate their own power completely independent of other private consumers. They could even sell the excess electricity to local communities.
I used to sell systems to do just that.