MEXICO CITY, June 26 (Reuters) - Canada's ambassador to Mexico slammed recent actions by Mexican state power company CFE on Wednesday, after the state-owned firm requested arbitration in a dispute over a natural gas pipeline built by a consortium involving a Canadian company.
Ambassador Pierre Alarie wrote in a post on Twitter that the Mexican government appears "not to wish to respect natural gas pipeline contracts," and that he was "deeply concerned" over the signal it sends.
IEnova IENOVA.MX , a unit of U.S.-based Sempra Energy (NYSE:SRE) SRE.N , has previously said the CFE is seeking arbitration over the terms of a contract the Mexican firm had signed in partnership with TransCanada Corp , now known as TC Energy TRP.TO , to build a natural gas pipeline from Texas to the Mexican Gulf coast port of Tuxpan.