One day before President Obama announced his independent action allowing illegal aliens to roam the U.S., his administration separately launched a plan to ensure Mexicans who stay in their own country will transport goods in environmentally friendly trains.
The U.S. Trade & Development Agency, or USTDA – a White House agency – unveiled the Green Locomotive Technologies Project in response to a call for help from the Asociación Mexicana de Ferrocarriles, A.C., Mexico's train industry association.
This technical assistance endeavor starts with a relatively small grant of about $600,000, according to planning documents WND located through routine database research. USTDA activities, however, typically lead to more comprehensive – and, for U.S. taxpayers, more expensive – aid and financing through governmental institutions like the U.S. Export-Import Bank, or Ex-Im, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, or OPIC.
The green train initiative is designed to boost the ability of Mexican corporations to "adopt modern motive power technologies to improve the efficiency of the country's freight locomotives, while at the same time lowering air emissions," the solicitation document says.
USTDA on behalf of the rail association will hire a U.S. contractor to assess the availability of such "green" technologies and upgrades, eventually helping to put in service more "freight locomotives that comply with stringent air emissions criteria."
U.S. taxpayers likewise will help the Mexican rail group to "retrofit older freight locomotives, emissions control systems, idle reduction technologies, computerized remote monitoring systems, information systems and software for asset management, and voice/data communications systems."
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/11/obama-launches-green-train-plan-for-mexico/#jg0EfgmqdiAxbYQf.99
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