Puerto Rico says it's scrapping controversial power contract || Daily News || South Africa News
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Date: 30/10/2017

Puerto Rico says it's scrapping controversial power contract || Daily News || South Africa News 
The Puerto Rico electric power company canceled Sunday a controversial $300 million contract it had signed with a small Montana-based company and tasked with a central role in repairing the territory's hurricane-ravaged electric grid.


The move came after Gov. Ricardo Rossello said the contract was a distraction and should be canceled after critics in the electric power industry, Congress and the Federal Emergency Management Agency raised questions about whether the company, Whitefish Energy, was well equipped to respond to the hurricane damage.

Thirty-nine days after Hurricane Maria hit the territory, Rossello said that he would request assistance from Florida and New York under mutual aid arrangements that utilities activate to help other states during an emergency. About 80 percent of the people living on the commonwealth's main island still have no electricity. More scrutiny urged