The Puerto Rican government's power company is going to scrap its $300 million contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings once it wraps up current work on Hurricane Maria recovery efforts, power company director Ricardo Ramos said Sunday. Ramos said he's bowing to a demand by Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Roselló, who had called Sunday for the island's power company to cancel the contract with the Montana company from Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke's hometown. The contract for the small Montana company has come under intense scrutiny, and audits of the Whitefish contract at a local and federal level are under way. “I had absolutely nothing to do with Whitefish Energy receiving a contract in Puerto Rico,” Zinke said in a statement Friday.

Source: Fox News October 29, 2017 16:18 UTC