Landowners & Texas Easement Action Alliance Claim Victory as DeLa Express Petrochemicals Pipeline Cancelled
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 16, 2026
Landowners & Texas Easement Action Alliance Claim Victory as DeLa Express Petrochemicals Pipeline Cancelled
Coleman County, TX — Landowners across Texas and Louisiana who face eminent domain seizure of their property for Moss Lake Partners' proposed DeLa Express petrochemicals pipeline today claimed victory, as the company announced it is abandoning its plans for an interstate pipeline intended to bolster the plastics industry in a new filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
The company has petitioned FERC to suspend its “prefiling” process for the DeLa Express pipeline, because Moss Lake says it now intends to instead build a pipeline only within the state of Texas. It also said the proposed project would now transport “dry” instead of “wet” gas – which means the company no longer intends to transport feedstocks for plastics like ethane, propane, and butane, if the project moves forward. Previously, FERC had listed the DeLa Express pipeline on a list of “Priority Projects” that also includes the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s proposed “Southgate” expansion.
But landowners working with the the Texas Easement Action Alliance landowners’ legal co-op report that Moss Lake Partners has not been in contact with them for months, and efforts to get an update from contractors for the company working on the DeLa project turned up evidence that Moss Lake is no longer pursuing objectives on the ground towards moving forward with the pipeline.
While landowners are claiming victory over the DeLa petrochemicals pipeline project, the Texas Easement Action Alliance encourages landowners to remain vigilant, and reach out to us to report any contacts from land agents from Moss Lake seeking to obtain new easements for an in-state gas pipeline.
“When we learned the DeLa Pipeline was proposed to cross our farm, it changed the trajectory of our lives and our plans for this land. Instead of responding with fear alone, our community came together,” said Alyssa Portaro, DeLa Pipeline Landowner and Resistance organizer in Vinton, Louisiana and Director of Habitat Recovery Project. “More than 60 people helped us build a monument along the proposed route, embedding the handprints of people whose lives have already been shaped by fossil fuel infrastructure—from Stacey Ryan, the last resident of Mossville whose home became surrounded by Sasol’s petrochemical expansion, to Jess Conard and Hilary Flint of East Palestine, Ohio’s petrochemical train derailment, and Maury Johnson, whose farm was crossed by the Mountain Valley Pipeline. It became a promise that we would stand together to protect the places we call home. Today’s news is a reminder that collective community action matters. As one of the first properties the pipeline would have crossed after entering Louisiana, we’re proud to have been part of the effort that stopped this segment before it could move forward beyond us Eastward. Every project prevented means one less community facing unnecessary risk. We announce this news as our “Seeds of Resistance” corn gifted from the Ponca tribe is beginning to produce its ears on our farm for the first time. We’re ready to continue to share the corn and grow the network of protection against these pipeline projects with the other landowners.”
“Let this pave the way for a new standard to be set in Texas. Landowners will no longer back down and allow the wealthiest companies in the world to simply set up shop wherever and whenever they please. The days of corporations coming in and picking on an isolated landowner to get their way are finished. We are building a robust network of landowners across the state who are prepared to fight back and support one another when the threat of eminent domain comes knocking,” said Jay Mania, Landowner Organizer with Bold’s Texas Easement Action Alliance.
“This is a major win for the landowners who stood up for their land and property rights over the past several years. This should be a sign to Moss Lake and any other corporation looking to abuse eminent domain for private gain that landowners will not simply roll over when their land and livelihoods are on the line,” said Emma Schmit, Bold Alliance's Pipeline Fighters Director.
About Habitat Recovery Project:
Habitat Recovery Project is a community-focused conservation movement dedicated to restoring, generating, and preserving ecological habitats in existing and proposed contaminated communities by supporting the people, cultures, and grassroots initiatives rooted within them. Our headquarters is a 24-acre community farm in Southwest Louisiana that was slated to be crossed by the proposed DeLa Pipeline. Today, the property serves as a public campground, sanctuary for people and animals, community garden, outdoor classroom, and gathering place where conservation, community resilience, and environmental stewardship come together. (https://habitatrecovery.org)
About Bold’s Texas Easement Action Alliance:
The Texas Easement Action Alliance is a grassroots organization established for the benefit of landowners and community members impacted by the proposed DeLa Express Pipeline. Constitutional and property rights must be defended to guarantee landowners and communities have an even playing field with multi-billion dollar corporations. TEAA is a landowner-organized and run group designed to help educate and empower others to understand the options available to you to protect your land, family, and future. TEAA works closely with a legal team, issue experts, and landowner organizers to build a network of concerned and affected persons to join together as one powerful group. (https://txeasement.org)
About Bold’s Easement Action Teams:
The Easement Action Teams are a project of the Bold Education Fund. The EATs work with local communities to provide immediate legal representation to landowners facing pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure. Our first priority is to protect landowners’ property rights and water. We believe landowners should have the ultimate right of what does and does not happen on their land. We stand against the use of eminent domain for private gain. (https://easementteams.org)
About Bold:
The Bold Alliance and Bold Education Fund are coordinating state-based groups with our Pipeline Fighters Hub and landowner legal groups called the Easement Action Teams to stop carbon pipelines from using eminent domain for private gain. We believe that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is unproven and overly expensive and wastefully incentivized approach to climate change, and that the carbon pipelines needed for CCS are poorly planned, under-regulated, and risky infrastructure. These huge and complex projects should not move forward until counties, states and the federal government prove first that they are a better climate solution than renewable energy, and second that safety, planning, and routing standards are in place to avoid inefficient chaotic development driven by wasteful federal spending. (https://boldalliance.org)
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