Judgment of the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
In Mesa Power Group, LLC v. Government of Canada (UNCITRAL, PCA Case No. 2012-17)
Opening of the document
Case 1:16-cv-01101-JDB Document 40 Filed 06/15/17 Page 1 of 22 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MESA POWER GROUP, LLC, Civil Action No. 16-1101 (JDB) GOVERNMENT OF CANADA, MEMORANDUM OPINION This is a dispute over enforcement of an arbitration award. Mesa Power Group, LLC (“Mesa”), an energy company, believes that the government of Canada violated the North American Free Trade Agreement in how it awarded various renewable energy contracts in Ontario. An arbitration panel disagreed. Mesa now petitions this Court to vacate that award; Canada counter-petitions for enforcement of the award. Given a federal court’s narrow power to review the substance of arbitration …