The LNG ships of Cheniere Energy are destroying our shoreline and quality of life on the Corpus Christi Bay.

The destruction to the shoreline due to no water mitigation and excessive LNG ship speeds.

16 Properties, Zero Protection

The POCC ignores what it doesn’t own. While the Port of Corpus Christi (POCC) moves mountains for its “stakeholders” and “customers,” 16 private properties at Ingleside on the Bay are being dismantled by industrial neglect.

The Reality of the La Quinta Channel:

• Negligent Mitigation: The Port modified the channel but failed to implement the proper shielding required to protect private real estate from catastrophic erosion.
• The Pilot Problem: Ship pilots continue to ignore the shoreline, maintaining speeds that create destructive wakes.
• The 3-Knot Proof: We know safety is possible. When ships meet at the junction, they traverse at 3–4 knots with zero destructive wake and perfect steering. If they can do it then, they can do it every time.

Our Message to the POCC: We are not your customers, but we are your neighbors. Private property rights are not optional.

Enough Stalling: In-Water Mitigation Now

A Message from the 16 Unprotected Homeowners of IOB

Since 2018, the Port of Corpus Christi (POCC) and Cheniere Energy have watched our shoreline disappear. We don’t need more surveys. We don’t need more studies. We need action in the water.

The Reality of the Destruction

• Private Property is Not the Solution: A wall on our land cannot stop the energy of a massive LNG carrier. Mitigation belongs in the water, where the energy starts.
• The “3-Knot Proof”: We know safe transit is possible. When ships meet at the junction, they move at 3-4 knots with zero destructive wake. High-speed transits are a choice to prioritize time over our homes.
• Identified Since 2018: This was a mistake made during the channel modification. It has been documented for years, yet the POCC only engages when a “customer” has a problem.

What Happens When Expansion Starts?

If the current traffic is already causing bulkheads to collapse, the planned expansions will be the final blow. We have worked our whole lives for these properties, only to sit by and watch them be destroyed by industrial neglect.

We are neighbors, not obstacles. Stop the vilification of those speaking out and fix the water.

The “Invisible” Destruction: Scouring and Pier Failure

Our Yards are Disappearing from the Inside Out

It isn’t just the surface of the shoreline that is eroding; the very foundation of our properties is being hollowed out. The excessive speeds of Cheniere’s ships create a massive “suction” effect that is now pulling the soil out from underneath our protective walls.

The Threat to our Infrastructure:

• Hollowed Yards: We are watching our yards literally disappear as the earth is sucked into the channel through gaps created by wake-driven scouring.
• Pier Collapse: Our piers—the structures we’ve spent thousands to maintain—are now being undermined. As the soil beneath the bulkheads vanishes, the pilings supporting our piers are losing their stability.
• Structural Instability: Once the water gets behind or under the wall, the entire structure is compromised. Without in-water mitigation, it is no longer a matter of “if” these properties and piers will collapse, but “when.”

This is real private property, built with decades of hard work, being sacrificed for a few extra knots of ship speed.

Be Good Neighbors: Do the Right Thing, Coexist!

A Message to the Port of Corpus Christi and Cheniere Energy

We aren’t asking for more studies, more surveys, or more stalling. We are asking you to be good neighbors. You have identified the shoreline destruction since 2018, yet you continue to prioritize ship speed and “customer satisfaction” over the homes of the people who live here.

The Solution is Simple:

• In-Water Mitigation: Put the protection where it belongs—in the water. Stop trying to make homeowners build walls on their own land to fix a problem you created in the channel.
• Respect the Shoreline: If pilots can navigate safely at 3–4 knots when ships meet at the junction, they can do it every time. Excessive speed is a choice to destroy our property for the sake of a few minutes of saved time.

To the Port Commission: You claim a commitment to “regional resilience” in your 2026 Strategic Plan. Prove it. Protect the “Unprotected 16” before you approve one more acre of industrial expansion.

No More Games: Real Destruction Happening To Real Residents

To the Port Commission: The time for surveys is over. We are done watching you send questionnaires to people who don’t even live on the water while our homes are being undermined.

• Manufacturing “No Problem”: When you survey people unaffected by the channel traffic and get “little to no response,” you cannot use that silence to claim there isn’t a problem. Silence from a non-resident does not erase the collapsing bulkheads of a homeowner.
• Targeted Neglect: You know exactly where the damage is—the 16 properties at Ingleside on the Bay. Focusing your “outreach” anywhere else is a deliberate attempt to drown out the voices of those actually losing their land.
• The End of Stalling: We see the “game.” You study the issue to death, survey the wrong people to dilute the data, and then claim “lack of interest” as an excuse for inaction.

Stop the surveys. Stop the games. Look at the 16 properties you are destroying and put the mitigation in the water now.

Enough with the vilification of those who speak out. Just do the right thing.