Questions swirl after small Montana firm lands Puerto Rico power contract

[Jacque67 7,328]

A small Montana utility firm with ties to the Trump administration has won a major multimillion-dollar contract to help restore large portions of Puerto Rico's crippled electrical grid.

Whitefish Energy, a two-year old electrical utility firm, announced last week it secured a $300 million contract from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to repair and reconstruct parts of the island's electrical infrastructure. 

 

This is the largest contract awarded to any company for relief efforts on the island in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. 

 

The deal surpassed a six-month contract worth $240 million to Fluor Corp. from the Army Corps of Engineers to help bring power back to the island and a $35.1 million contract to Weston Solutions to provide two generators for temporary power to the city of San Juan. 

The arrangement has raised a few eyebrows among Democrats given that Whitefish only had two employees the day Hurricane Maria hit. Already, Whitefish has scaled up to 300 employees in Puerto Rico -- and it says 700 more are on the way. Such quick growth is typical among utility firms when they are awarded large contracts. 

On Tuesday, both a House and a Senate committee called for a review into the Whitefish contract.

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/24/news/economy/puerto-rico-whitefish-trump-contract/index.html

 

draining the swamp.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Hmm...Richard Spencer also from Whitefish...

last year...

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-richard-spencer-congress-20161220-story.html

[Dashinka 24,830]

Who had contract responsibilities?  It seems PREPA had ultimate responsibility and they choose the cheapest option.  What else is new?

 

 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

33 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Who had contract responsibilities?  It seems PREPA had ultimate responsibility and they choose the cheapest option.  What else is new?

 

 

A horse riding  sect.of the interior that flies private on the industry dime.

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://news.nyomtassolcson.hu/daily/san-juan-mayor-calls-for-cancelling-alarming-contract-for-puerto-rican-power-repairs

 

oh...

[Dashinka 24,830]

47 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

A horse riding  sect.of the interior that flies private on the industry dime.

Are you saying the SoI made the contract?  I didn't know that PREPA answered to the SoI.

Edited October 25, 2017 by Bill & Katya

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23 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

http://news.nyomtassolcson.hu/daily/san-juan-mayor-calls-for-cancelling-alarming-contract-for-puerto-rican-power-repairs

 

oh...

So the mayor has time to make this into a political issue in between having custom political t-shirts made.

[Dashinka 24,830]

5 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

So the mayor has time to make this into a political issue in between having custom political t-shirts made.

Is this mayor an expert on electrical grid re-building?  She and Rep. Wilson need to get together and have a Trump bashing party.

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6 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

So the mayor has time to make this into a political issue in between having custom political t-shirts made.

wonder who paid for the t-shirts? 

[Jacque67 7,328]

Maga

[Jacque67 7,328]

10 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

So the mayor has time to make this into a political issue in between having custom political t-shirts made.

Make whitefish great again. Drain the swamp.

[Dashinka 24,830]

2 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

Make whitefish great again. Drain the swamp.

Or maybe try not to add to PREPA $9 billion dollar deficit too much.  Maybe we should just forgive this debt since the people of PR have to put up with mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz. 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

10 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Who had contract responsibilities?  It seems PREPA had ultimate responsibility and they choose the cheapest option.  What else is new?

 

 

Cut them some slack. The Russian fake narrative has not only run out of steam, it has boomeranged on them.  They are really digging for material now.