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Whitefish Energy Halting Puerto Rico Power Grid Repairs Claiming It's Owed $83 Million Dollars

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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. Repeated requests for agreed payments were not met and there was no choice but to suspend work. A letter sent by Whitefish to PREPA and seen by CNN accuses PREPA of delaying payments. As of Sunday, Whitefish said $83,036,305.09 was outstanding, including more than $26 million that it said had been audited and approved by PREPA already. Without payment to Whitefish, contractors and subcontractors were also going unpaid, the letter said. According to the company, its work in Puerto Rico has involved more than 500 contractors and subcontractors.

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