Article snippet: Puerto Rico's state-run electric utility said Sunday that it has accepted the governor's request to immediately cancel a $300 million contract with a small Montana-based energy firm amid mounting controversy over the deal, according to media reports. Ricardo Ramos, the island's energy authority executive director, announced the decision during a press conference, according to ABC News. The decision followed another press conference on Sunday in which Gov. Ricardo Rosselló called for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to "immediately" cancel the deal. Not long afterward, local media reported that Ramos had canceled the contract. PREPA cut the deal to repair Puerto Rico's crumbling electrical grid on Sept. 26, just days after Hurricane Maria barrelled across the island. At the time the storm hit the island, Whitefish had only two full-time employees. The arrangement drew intense scrutiny, with critics arguing that the firm did not have experience working on a project as large in scale as that in Puerto Rico. The island has been without power for more than a month. The company, however, has argued that its experience working in mountainous terrain qualified it to take on the project. The arrangement came under fire in part because Whitefish is located in the hometown of Interior Secretary MORE, though he has said he had no contact with the firm until after it was awarded the PREPA contract. FEMA also sought to distance itself from the Whitefish deal,... Link to the full article to read more