When representatives of US railway companies visited Spain last year to examine the country’s AVE high-speed train system with a view to taking back with them some hints for their own networks, it was a boon to Spanish rail infrastructure. Spanish firms also saw a chance to showcase their cutting-edge technology in the rail and wind turbine industries in the United States when President Obama announced last year that billions of dollars would be available through the job-stimulus Recovery and Reinvestment Act. But when US transportation officials revealed in early September that one of the Spanish firms to benefit from the US government plan had committed serious violations in cahoots … [Read more...] about Basque deal with Houston derailed by improper practice