Colorado Sens. Gardner, Bennet split on wind energy credit

Colorado’s U.S. Senate delegation was split on an amendment in the Keystone XL pipeline bill to extend the wind production tax credit five years.

The amendment, introduced by Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., as part of the Keystone XL Pipeline Act, failed in a 51-47 vote Wednesday, with two members of the Senate not voting on the measure.

Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet voted in favor of the tax credit extension.

Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, who has supported the credit in the past, voted against the amendment because it “advocates the reauthorization of this tax credit without any means to pay for the extension.”

“Further,…