El Nuevo Día: Molina asks for hydric capacity; the Senate will hear RS-459 and RS-9 in public hearing

On August 26, 2026, El Nuevo Día reports that the Senate will consider that Thursday, in public hearing, two resolutions on Esencia's viability and its impact on the southwest's water. Leysa Caro González bylines the note, at 7:00 a.m. The headline is "Senado investigará en vistas públicas la viabilidad del megaproyecto Esencia en Cabo Rojo".

According to the paper, the PIP's RS-9 and Eliezer Molina's RS-459 will inquire into the data the developers submitted for permits and the risk of overexploiting aquifers. Molina, El Nuevo Día reproduces, said on his networks: "Yo no solicité permisos, yo le estoy solicitando que me den... la capacidad hídrica, todos los informes de todo el sistema de hidroeléctrica". He added: "Yo les dije hace un tiempo que el juego había cambiado". Those phrases are the outlet's, not a transcript by this magazine.

The same text says Molina's legislation asks for nominal and real capacity of production, treatment, and distribution in the southwest, demand broken down by sectors, and Esencia's projected demand in millions of gallons. RS-9, it adds, centers on what the proponents delivered to the agencies. Coalición Defiende a Cabo Rojo met with Thomas Rivera Schatz to ask for oversight of the process that ended in the site consultation.

Ey Boricua published a brief by Molina before the DIA — water, soil, fault. When opened, the server responded 403. This note does not paste that text. What remains is August 26 in El Nuevo Día: the hearing and the phrase on hydric capacity. This is not original reporting.

On March 30, El Vocero covered the approval of the two resolutions. That is another date. Here August 26 is the call to hearing. The paper also reproduces 17,000 jobs and 7,000 million in activity that it attributes to the developers. This page does not recount them. A reader who wants Molina's phrase has the URL at the foot.

Source: El Nuevo Día (Leysa Caro González), 26 Aug 2026. https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/legislatura/notas/senado-investigara-en-vistas-publicas-la-viabilidad-del-megaproyecto-esencia-en-cabo-rojo/. Ey Boricua (DIA brief): 403 when opened.