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Whitefish is halting Puerto Rico power repairs, claiming it's owed $83M
CNN ^ | Nov 30, 2017 | Leyla Santiago, Khushbu Shah and Rachel Clarke, CNN

Posted on 11/21/2017 9:15:23 AM PST by Western Phil

San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN)Whitefish Energy is stopping its work to restore Puerto Rico's broken electricity grid because the company says it is owed more than $83 million by the island's power authority. Whitefish CEO Andy Techmanski told CNN that repeated requests for agreed payments were not met and there was no choice but to suspend work.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clintonnewsnetwork; cnn; electricity; puertorico; whitefish
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An earlier thread http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3599702/posts indicated that the Commonwealth government was canceling the contract. However it looks as though Whitefish, although having only two employees, has 500 electrical workers in Puerto Rico getting the power restored. Apparently Whitefish is not being paid and no one has any intention of paying them. Maybe they are planning on finding 500 others willing to work for nothing. My guess is that the pool has probably been emptied.
1 posted on 11/21/2017 9:15:23 AM PST by Western Phil
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To: Western Phil
Is this why Bill Clinton is making a surprise visit ?
2 posted on 11/21/2017 9:18:01 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Western Phil

Their contract was terminated in October. Why this story now? I know for a fact that crews from the Jacksonville Electric Authority are there, third rotation now, so again, I ask why this story now?


3 posted on 11/21/2017 9:18:59 AM PST by mazda77
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I wonder that too. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Clinton corruption trying to damage Trump in PR.


4 posted on 11/21/2017 9:20:08 AM PST by dforest
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To: Western Phil
Too bad PR blew all their money on shirts and hats for the crazy San Juan mayor....



5 posted on 11/21/2017 9:20:15 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: Western Phil
island's power authority.

What do you want bet these are democrats???

6 posted on 11/21/2017 9:21:36 AM PST by ontap
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Get the PITCH FORKES and TORCHES ready, ...


7 posted on 11/21/2017 9:22:32 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: ontap

PR,guess what they are socialist, they jumped a notch


8 posted on 11/21/2017 9:23:07 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

SOS = Stupid Old Slut......................


9 posted on 11/21/2017 9:24:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Western Phil

Understatement of 2017: “It may have not been the best business decision coming to work for a bankrupt island,” Techmanski told CNN.”


10 posted on 11/21/2017 9:31:09 AM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Western Phil

The news media made much of the two employee electric company, but like many construction firms they hire what they need as they need it.

Now someone is trying to welch on paying them.


11 posted on 11/21/2017 9:34:06 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Cool beans! Tough love, P.R.

Lo siento. No dinero, no electricidad.

12 posted on 11/21/2017 9:35:04 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: Western Phil

Sh*t happens when you piss your money away. It’s the whimsy of bankruptcy.


13 posted on 11/21/2017 9:41:43 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: mazda77

This whole story is weird. The CNN coverage has no hint that anyone else is working there.

I suspect the timing and amount of information in the article is somehow related to discrediting the current administration.


14 posted on 11/21/2017 9:43:44 AM PST by Western Phil
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To: Western Phil

I can’t vouch for FPL, Florida Power & Light, but I remember hearing they have crews there as well. These and JEA were sent after the termination of the Whitefish deal.


15 posted on 11/21/2017 9:49:53 AM PST by mazda77
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“Whitefish CEO Andy Techmanski told CNN that repeated requests for agreed payments were not met and there was no choice but to suspend work.”

And that’s why you never work in PR until the money is in the bank.

That’s also why the island will never be fixed until they run off the present leaders and bureaucrats. All of them.

Who will now (not in the Fed gov) mobilize to PR to do what needs to be done proactively? Nobody. Because if you don’t have the money before you start, you’ll never get it - and if somebody gives PR the money to pay you, it will be stolen long before it makes it to you.

THAT is how business gets done in PR.

Viva La Revolucion!


16 posted on 11/21/2017 9:53:45 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: Western Phil

Find the money to fix the island. Either that or watch Florida become Puerto Rico.


17 posted on 11/21/2017 9:57:17 AM PST by JonPreston
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Puerto Rico is blessed to have access to America’s massive debt and money-printing ability, and America’s welfare system.

Otherwise, its a bankrupt, corrupt, latino-caudillo skimming culture like the rest of Latin America.


18 posted on 11/21/2017 10:04:10 AM PST by PGR88
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Where’s all that Soros money?


19 posted on 11/21/2017 10:08:22 AM PST by batterycommander (I learned my Artillery skills from the United States Marines. USNA 65)
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Soros wants to empty the island and then buy it on the cheap. His plan is working.


20 posted on 11/21/2017 10:10:34 AM PST by JonPreston
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