Puerto Rico still owes company $350 million for restoring grid in 2017 as it faces fresh hurricane outages
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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.
Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer at Fox News Digital
The company, which has worked on 17 other natural disaster clean up projects, was ultimately owed a total of $1.3 billion after completing its work and departing earlier than expected in 2019. When Cobra workers left the island, PREPA still owed $224 million, an amount which has swelled to more than $360 million when factoring in interest.
"We treated it almost like a military action which it was," Mammoth Energy CEO Arty Straehla told Fox News Digital in an interview. "At one point, we had 1,000 people on the island that were working to restore electricity because the devastation was so bad. When we got down there, 100% of the island was down."