Puerto Rico's debt-plagued power grid was on life support long before hurricanes

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Can this be true?. This article is from the LA Times but the TV people say it's all trump's fault.

Puerto Rico's debt-plagued power grid was on life support long before hurricanes wiped it out

sep 28 2017 Puerto Rico officials say it will likely be four to six months before power is fully restored across the U.S. territory of 3.5 million people. The island’s faltering electrical grid, now crippled by the twin blows of Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Irma, already was struggling to keep the lights on after a history of poor maintenance, poorly trained staff, allegations of corruption and crushing debt.

As recently as 2016, the island suffered a three-day, island-wide blackout as a result of a fire. A private energy consultant noted then that the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority “appears to be running on fumes, and … desperately requires an infusion of capital — monetary, human and intellectual — to restore a functional utility.”

Puerto Ricans in early 2016 were suffering power outages at rates four to five times higher than average U.S. customers, said the report from the Massachusetts-based Synapse Energy Economics.

And then came Maria.

 

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The real problem in PR is the debt and since that's their own fault, nobody wants to help them. So they exaggerate the hurricane damage to get a bailout that will really be applied to the debt.