GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) - The Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce hosted it's 2025 Energy Summit at the downtown Convention Center with an aim to, in the panelists’ own words, bring together divergent views on energy production and industry without surrendering principles. Which is a fancy way of saying, can’t we all just get along?

As panelists expressed at today’s summit, it’s almost never that easy or simple in this highly politicized area of state infrastructure. Summit speakers from Xcel Energy and West Slope Colorado Oil and Gas Association told the crowd about the many ways legislators, tasked to regulate energy, butt heads with the companies producing it.

"I see our regulators prioritizing energy, and environmental policy over the other things...development imperatives, balan

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