Welcome to Maine For Keeps, hosted by Jonathan Bush. Each week, we're sitting down with real Mainers - from small business owners fighting to survive, to industry leaders and innovators, to working folks trying to make ends meet - for raw, unfiltered conversations about:
→ The real stories of what's killing Maine jobs (like the 174 we just lost at the cement plant)
→ How Maine's smartest businesses are finding ways to win despite the obstacles
→ Why "environmental protection" often hurts both business AND the environment
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Welcome to Maine For Keeps, hosted by Jonathan Bush. Each week, we're sitting down with real Mainers - from small business owners fighting to survive, to industry leaders and innovators, to working folks trying to make ends meet - for raw, unfiltered conversations about:
→ The real stories of what's killing Maine jobs (like the 174 we just lost at the cement plant)
→ How Maine's smartest businesses are finding ways to win despite the obstacles
→ Why "environmental protection" often hurts both business AND the environment
How Maine Is Pricing Itself Out of the Future — Energy, Regulation, and the War on Growth, with Matt Jacobson, Director of Sales & Marketing, Summit Natural Gas of Maine
Maine For Keeps
57 minutes 6 seconds
6 months ago
How Maine Is Pricing Itself Out of the Future — Energy, Regulation, and the War on Growth, with Matt Jacobson, Director of Sales & Marketing, Summit Natural Gas of Maine
Maine isn’t just losing opportunities. We’re driving them away—with energy policies, regulatory gridlock, and a learned helplessness that’s sinking our economy.
In this episode of Maine For Keeps, Jonathan Bush sits down with Matt Jacobson, Director of Sales & Marketing at Summit Natural Gas of Maine (and former CEO of Maine & Company), to have a brutally honest conversation about:
How Maine’s energy costs got so out of control
Why we’re importing natural gas from Trinidad instead of Pennsylvania
The real math behind solar and wind (and why it’s not adding up)
How rigid ideology crushed projects like Dragon Cement — and what it’s costing all of us
What “learned helplessness” looks like at the state level—and how we break free
Why nuclear and pragmatic energy investments could be Maine’s ticket to a real future
And how the American dream shouldn’t require leaving Maine to achieve it
If you’re tired of seeing Maine fall behind while politicians pat themselves on the back, this is the episode you don’t want to miss.
We’re not here to complain—we’re here to rebuild.
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Maine For Keeps
Welcome to Maine For Keeps, hosted by Jonathan Bush. Each week, we're sitting down with real Mainers - from small business owners fighting to survive, to industry leaders and innovators, to working folks trying to make ends meet - for raw, unfiltered conversations about:
→ The real stories of what's killing Maine jobs (like the 174 we just lost at the cement plant)
→ How Maine's smartest businesses are finding ways to win despite the obstacles
→ Why "environmental protection" often hurts both business AND the environment
