{"id":119163,"date":"2014-07-09T22:28:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T04:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/gardner-fracking-ban-would-kill-jobs\/"},"modified":"2014-07-09T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T04:28:11","slug":"gardner-fracking-ban-would-kill-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/gardner-fracking-ban-would-kill-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardner: Fracking ban would kill jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, seeking to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, visited Durango on Sunday, and spoke with the Herald's editorial board.<\/span>JENNAYE DERGE\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, seeking to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, defended hydraulic fracturing as a job creator and said bans of the practice would kill thousands of jobs \u201covernight\u201d in a visit to Durango on Sunday.<\/p>\n

His \u201call-of-the-above energy policy\u201d relies on fracking.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf an energy ban were to take place in this state, you would lose 120,000 jobs overnight,\u201d he said. \u201cTwelve billion dollars in economic activity would walk away and $1 billion in tax revenues that builds roads and schools in this state.<\/p>\n

Colorado has some of, if not the most, stringent regulations in place. A hydraulic fracturing ban on the ballot would be devastating to our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gardner, a 40-year-old Republican from Yuma, was in Durango on a tour of Southwest Colorado; he\u2019s been to Montrose, Norwood, Telluride and Dolores on a trip that began July Fourth.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been called a GOP Young Gun \u2013 the Idea Man \u2013 by supporters. He\u2019s also been called \u201ctoo extreme for Colorado\u201d by critics.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, he said he\u2019s working push ideas of renewable energy on his sometimes-skeptical party and that Republicans should understand renewable energy is a \u201cpretty good free-market principle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gardner supports oil seed used in bio-fuel production in Colorado \u2013 saying dry-land oil-seed farming would be phenomenal for the state\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

On March 1, he launched a campaign platform called the Four Corners plan.<\/p>\n

The plan, he said, is built on economy, education, energy and the environment, to bring together the four corners of the state.<\/p>\n

Although he has taken heat in the media for statements on personhood, abortion and birth control, as well as on immigration, energy and environmental policy, Gardner says he has appealed to members of opposing parties.<\/p>\n

He has worked with No Labels and with a Democratic senator from West Virginia and a former governor of Utah to try to \u201ccut through partisan gridlock.\u201d<\/p>\n

He talked about caring for healthy forests and described himself as a Republican who wants to address conservation.<\/p>\n

He said he\u2019s also working on college-tuition savings programs and extensions of existing programs that would help families save for tuition and help graduates pay off their loans.<\/p>\n

Speaking about his reversal of positions on the \u201cpersonhood amendment,\u201d which would grant rights to unborn fetuses, Gardner says a solution to many unwanted pregnancies could be found in making some birth-control options more easily available.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, we have asked the FDA to make common forms of more contraception available over-the-counter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am pro-life, but I think this election is about the economy and getting people back to work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

bmathis@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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