by Bob Walsh
The electrical grid in Puerto Rico is pretty much destroyed. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority just signed a $300 million contract to repair and reconstruct the grid. That contract went to Whitefish Energy, a company that has never had a significant government contract before. In fact, before they got this contract the company had only TWO full-time employees. (They have about 300 now on site, almost all sub-contract employees.)
The company asserts it has significant expertise operating in very rough terrain where much equipment will have to be helicoptered in.
I am fully confident the fact that the company is headquartered in the home town of Ryan Zinke, the Interior Secretary, is purely coincidental. as is the fact that Zinke and Andy Techmanski, the CEO of Whitefish, are homeboys of long standing. Zinke's rugrat had a summer job with Whtiefish as a flagger on one of their projects.
There was no formal bidding process for the contract.
No, nothing at all fishy here. Move along. Nothing to see.
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