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Yeah that sure is a whole lot of winning for the people in PR. Not only are their government corrupt and unprepared for just about anything, now they have to wait longer for a job to get done that they themselves should be able to do.
Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló announced on Sunday that he had asked the power authority’s board — which he appoints — to cancel the contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings, two days after FEMA issued a strongly worded statement criticizing the deal. FEMA said it had “significant concerns” and warned that it might refuse to cover the costs of the contract if it was found to be improper.
Wow. Just the threat scared off the governor.
“I am making this determination because it is in the best interest of the people of Puerto Rico,” Mr. Rosselló said at a news conference.
OK-- good luck with that..
Here's what I found that is most informative regarding how the contract was obtained.
The main one is Whitefish Energy, a small Montana company that was acquired two years ago by COMTRAFO Brazil, a maker of electrical transformers. Whitefish entered PREPA's orbit during the interval between Irma and Maria, the two hurricanes that lashed Puerto Rico this season. Ramos said that it put out a request for repairs to its transmission lines after Irma and that Whitefish was one of only two mainland companies that responded.
Before the contract with Whitefish could be activated, Maria struck and cut off PREPA's communications with the outside world, according to Ramos. PREPA also lost contact with APPA immediately following the hurricane, he said, which was a factor in the decision not to request assistance under the APPA mutual aid program.
"If we wouldn't have lost communications the day after Maria, I would have called mutual aid, and I would have contracted Whitefish as well," said Ramos, who said the island's devastated communication system meant he had no access to email until Friday, almost two weeks after the storm. That explanation adds a confusing element to PREPA's dire situation: If communications had not failed, would PREPA have proceeded to seek mainland utilities' help notwithstanding demands for the upfront payments he described?
Whitefish got the go-ahead to head to Puerto Rico, not from Ramos but from PREPA's procurement employees, who had a satellite phone and Whitefish's phone number, Ramos said. He did not explain why that communication source was unavailable to him.
Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló announced on Sunday that he had asked the power authority’s board — which he appoints — to cancel the contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings, two days after FEMA issued a strongly worded statement criticizing the deal. FEMA said it had “significant concerns” and warned that it might refuse to cover the costs of the contract if it was found to be improper.
Wow. Just the threat scared off the governor.
After Trump team is getting indicted everyone is jumping off the Trump train, like rats on a sinking ship
The people of Puerto Rico are the ones who will be sinking... now that they have chosen to stop the rebuilding process.
They haven't chosen to stop it. Elon Musk is helping them. They just chose not to use a criminal crony of the Trump administration to fail at doing anything in exchange for $300 million.
The inability of people here to not look for existing threads on the exact same topic before they post a new thread is nothing short of unbelievable.
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