NotiCel: Carlo Acosta says Esencia has no water, power, or trash, and opposes after the endorsement without hearings

On August 6, 2026, NotiCel reports that New Progressive Party representative Emilio Carlo Acosta declared himself against Esencia after a twelve-month and two-week investigation. Diego Nieves Berríos bylines the note. The headline is "Esencia no tiene agua, luz ni espacio para su basura, revela investigación de representante PNP".

According to NotiCel, Carlo presented the findings the day before in plaza Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances, in Cabo Rojo. The outlet places those remarks days after the OGPe approved the site consultation on August 1, without public hearings. Carlo, it adds, had sent 25 topics to Cabo Rojo Land Acquisition with 30 days to respond; on July 23 the proponents said they would neither address them nor share documents.

The representative, NotiCel reproduces, asked how anyone can be in favor if there are no answers and no hearing. Findings the outlet attributes to him: there is not water for the municipality and the hotel at the same time; it was proposed to use AEE irrigation from the Valle de Lajas, to the detriment of farmers; there is no electric capacity. The AAA, Carlo said via NotiCel, communicated that there is no water-service capacity. Those phrases are the legislator's in NotiCel, not a ruling this magazine recounts.

Carlo, district 20 — Cabo Rojo, San Germán, Hormigueros — called the project "a private city": 809 hectares, 500 rooms, 1,200 residences, two golf courses, a school, and a medical center. There is no Molina docket here. What remains is August 6: a PNP representative against, without hearings and without answers. This is not original reporting.

On August 1, El Nuevo Día covered the claim of an expedited process. On August 16, the same paper covered the 205 figures. Those are other URLs. Here NotiCel and Carlo. A reader who wants the 25 topics has the URL at the foot.

Source: NotiCel (Diego Nieves Berríos), 6 Aug 2026. https://noticel.com/noticias/20260806/esencia-no-tiene-agua-luz-ni-espacio-para-su-basura-revela-investigacion-de-representante-pnp/