The Oklahoma-based Mammoth Energy has reiterated calls for Puerto Rico to pay it more than $360 million it says it is owed for restoring the island's grid after Hurricane Maria.
of Puerto Ricans, a Harvard University study estimated that in its aftermath, it caused another 4,645 deaths.
Less than a month after Cobra signed the contract with PREPA in October 2017, the company sent multiple barges full of equipment and hundreds of workers to Puerto Rico to fix the grid. Cobra completed its work and departed Puerto Rico in March 2019, according to Straehla. He said the company had successfully executed its job, restoring the island's electricity, and was lauded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency .
Electricity poles and lines lay toppled on the road in Humacao, Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria in 2017. "It had a tremendous impact on us — it certainly changed the trajectory of the company," he told Fox News Digital."We want to get paid, we want to reinvest, we want to build more jobs, and continue to grow this company."Streets are flooded after the passing of Hurricane Fiona in Salinas, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 19.
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