Overview
- A Sonora judge granted a definitive suspension Tuesday, ordering authorities to block LNG tankers tied to Project Saguaro from entering the Gulf of California until a final ruling.
- The order stems from an amparo suit, a Mexican constitutional injunction, brought in 2025 by the group Nuestro Futuro on behalf of the whales that inhabit the gulf.
- Scientists and advocates warn that 300‑plus‑meter LNG carriers raise deadly collision risks and create underwater noise that can disrupt communication and migration for more than 31 cetacean species.
- Project Saguaro plans a liquefaction terminal at Puerto Libertad and an about 800‑kilometer pipeline from Texas to export over 15 million tonnes of LNG a year to Asia, which would require frequent tanker transits.
- Activists will ask the environment ministry to designate the gulf a Critical Habitat and to extend similar limits to other plans such as Amigo GNL, pointing to December’s Vista Pacífico cancellation after permit denials as a sign that safeguards can hold.