>So while they're able to sell oil, a huge chunk of their gas is stranded at this point.

*burned. You can see the flames all the way to Finland from them having to burn the gas because of lack of demand.

(environmentally burning it is bad but just releasing it is much much worse)

Important fact to note on this news: overall and specially consumer usage of gas is low in Finland. It is mainly used by industry.

To put in perspective in cubic feet per capita US usage is at 85, Germany at 35 and Finland 17.